SASFLY: April 2012

Tuesday 24 April 2012

alps

Older brother, restless soul, lie down
Lie for a while with your ear against the earth
And you’ll hear your sister sleep talking
Say, “Your hair is long but not long enough to reach
Home to me
But your beard
Someday might be”

And she woke up in a cold sweat on the floor
Next to a family portrait drawn when you were four
And beside a jar of two cent coins that are no good no more
She’ll lay it aside

Older father, weary soul, you’ll drive
Back to the home you made on the mountainside
With that ugly, terrible thing
Those papers for divorce
And a lonely ring
A lonely ring
Sit on your porch
And pluck your strings

Oh, and you’ll find somebody you can blame
And you’ll follow the creek that runs out into the sea
And you’ll find the peace of the Lord.

Grandfather, weary* soul, you’ll fly
Over your life once more before you die
Since our grandma passed away
You’ve waited for forever and a day
Just to die
And someday soon
You will die

It was the only woman you ever loved
That got burnt by the sun too often when she was young
And the cancer spread and it ran into her body and her blood
And there’s nothing you can do about it now

thrift store dreams

when you and your gal cass have great plans too make money too see each other all you want to do is set out and start! but as you all know we are exactly old enough to get in a car and drive away yet! so as i am dreaming about going to my local opp shop, im forced to send my brain into over drive and think about all the endless possibilities of what i could buy! this then makes me think, who am i kidding! haha but all is swell as once i put my two tiny hands onto those worn out, second-hand clothes it will be worth the wait!