Hooks and lines, fishing for rhymes

God doesn't strike people down for bad stuff they've done or may do.  God doesn't have the time to squash your chintzy ass; there's a universe out there to get good lambs through.

I suppose it looked like I was a tad wild  in that '78 "Hummingbird" with the tumbleweed buckled in on the passenger side.

Feel that drumming in your head?
Proves you don't know when to stop.
Downed all that suds instead;
Now you curse the brew of barley and hops.

The way you primp and preen
From a distance rarely seen
(By whomever it is for)
In the inches from your mirror.

Ignorance drives evolution.  With no evolution, humankind would have remained as ignorant as the oldest generation.  The ignorance of our forebears proves evolution.

You poured more hurt into my heart than it can hold, then you broke it open.

I'll tear your picture into such tiny pieces the worms will get some good from it by eating it into compost.

Lay my pall with a long song I never heard,  I want to finish all the ones I know.

An exquisitively beautiful butterfly will extract nourishing sugars from sun-drenched flowers, urine-soaked sand or a damp dog turd.

I cried like this, one time, and you caved.
Said, "OK, I'll marry you to prove my love."
You can't cave, this time.
I cry because you've died.

Early grieving is most intense.
Long-time grieving makes no sense.

You can bury every female except your widow.

Alcohol stirred into testosterone is a vicious fizz.

It's raining on Christmas
The white is washing away
Colored lights are blinking drips
The kids are in to stay!

Miracles are neither nonchalant nor easy, except for human fertilization.

Parent trying to spoil their kid into submission.."Here's the money, don't forget where it came from."

Here's what I betcha, take it to the banker, don't let 'em ketcha getting old.

You can't come close to preventing aging.  It will creep and crawl all over you and before you know it, you're old.

The sounds of the war chords keep drumming.  It is human, we can't stop the tune. In the past, present and future, we never leave well enough alone.

You had a way, and I'm sure you still do, of stealing a heart before it could start anew.

...creeping and peeking around in the garage as if something's about to jump out.

It's not all free time, no matter the work or fun, you gotta run.

You can go home, again.  But you may have a battle if you intend to stay.

A pain a day
Is the pay
For age.
Hooray!

My direction never seemed for certain and I never travelled at the same pace...
I only remember the sun coming up over my backside and setting on my face.

When the Tallyman comes to tally, you can face up straight or jump into an alley.
Doesn't matter, no right or wrong, lyrics all end in the Tallyman Song.

Got on my knees for the Mine Mistress.
That's what she required.
Wore my 'caps away while praying
And prying loose her diamonds
To be hauled away and fired.

Went to work before full light
In the deep ever-darkness.
Came home to near sunset
With face blackened starkness.

I should give that old red suitcase away.  Won't be packing anytime soon.  Or today.

Wish I had a Bobby McGee to hitchhike with me
To thumb down diesels and play and sing.
Instead, I'm alone on a soul-bustin' walk
Feeling the sadness of a screaming hawk.

I've had some that was good but never as good as you could.

Guess I need a shove to love you again.

If she wanted me, she'd have me, her love, alone, would have kept me around.

I lied alot when I told you I love you.
It wasn't from the bottom of my heart.
I told you what you wanted to hear,
Now that telling you is tearing me apart.

I'd rather have one chick fighting for me than ten chicks fighting over me.

You folded my heart into an envelope and posted it to nowhere.

You can push me to the edge of emotion but you can't make me fall into love.

Missed alot of studio time, this morning, singing in the shower.
Missed signing my name for all the fans, hour after hour.

Been trying to think how long its been since I quit thinking of you;
How long since I counted weeks and months and cried away each day through?

Before you are cold, people will forget, their lives will go on before you are stiff.

When you know the sound of the freighters on the Panama and the scurry of rats on the muddy creek bank

7Oct87 - still in limbo and on hold for steep stoop east
9Oct87 - sit around day, reading LENNON and watching Giants lose game #3
10Oct87 - Rog calls -  Florida job uncertain - going to work on 12th, same day I leave CA
14Oct87 - Giants lose in seven games - St Louis/Minnesota in series
15Oct87 - Unrelenting, unrepentant bitch - a long waist to go before we sleep - making love makes it difficult to recall the uneasy times
18Oct87 -- headed east to NJ from CA
19Oct87 - side by side with a red Prelude at 80 mph ("How fast you going?")  the couple looks up and freaks, I back off
As expensive as Nevada
20Oct87 - On I-80, just prior to 220 mile marker, the 1962 Olds Cutlass F-85 turns 100,000 miles
21Oct87 - Stayed at John and Marker's.  Moe and Sandy asked about Pieffs (not since my wife).  Saw Joe and Marie.  Peanut butter, gov't cheese, home-baked whole wheat bread
22Oct87 HaWK and Elsee land in Roosevelt about 3 am.

I look for the bad in you while hoping there's some good in me,
Eliminating the vile bile that plasters over a pleasant smile.
Love can't last that comes too fast,
Hold me, let me slowly fall in love.
Are my eyes betraying what I'm saying?
I can't finance this romance anymore.

11-1-11
My favorite mother-in-law was Emma
She was understanding and  tried to know me.
To the end she was friendly,
Writing notes on cards
Lamenting the energy required.
In answers, I covered old ground sans guard.

The rock era is over, I heard it on the BBC.
I heard it first on WLAC.
We'd sit on Gobbler's Knob
Hearing our first rhythm and blues grooves,
Then digging a country crooner who made it all move.

You'll get over it or it will put you under.
Forget the lightening strike, enjoy the thunder rumble.
You are not going to die, stop hoping for something bad to end the burn.
Thousands, millions of lovers before you, have survived to return.

You think you are the only one in the entire world who feels as badly as you?
Well, multiply it by ten and begin to pretend how real pain sufferers get through.

I've been in love lots of ways, that is to say with many girls and dames.
Some not long enough to have to fall out,
A few so deeply that I still think about.

One best thing about old age is you get more time to complete projects and time to begin a new one.

When we review scenes in our minds which picture times of our parents, and times as a parent, it becomes apparent, we sound like them.

No family has to go too far back to find a crazy. - Pat Conroy

Intensity is a strain to maintain
When it wains the gains switch to another.
It determines success
Or momentum shifts
Intensity is a mother.

          Patriotic Rhetoric
Thank you for your service, for joining the force to fight.
Thank you for the sacrifice of limbs, minds or sight.
We really do appreciate it, but dying is never right.

     Half a century ago a marriage ceremony took place on a bright sun, mild, Valentine's Day.  The groom wore Air Force blues with black bow tie, white gloves and a white carnation.  The bride wore a white gown with tiara and veil.  She carried a spray of red roses.
     People propose on Valentine's Day.  People plead with sweets on Valentine's Day.  An Anniversary on Valentine's Day is similar to the feeling of having a birthday on a major holiday.  But fifty years later, I remember only the Valentine's Day kind of stuff.

     I'm a thousand watts dimmer than sad.
     I know it sounds pretty rad,
     She turned out the  lights in my head.