Rotary Machine

Make the most of everything
Because you’re running out of time
Passion is deep
When you stand in shallow water.
Demanding answers
From the lies of this world,
You take what you can
Even if it hurts.
Pursuing what money can buy
You get what you ask for.
Never again is sworn
Over an endless amount
Of memories all too familiar.
Fulfilling desires
Sitting side by side,
They all stand tall on cardboard boxes
Ten cents a dozen
Os this your example
Of living life to the fullest.

1-26-91

The Ambulance Song

red room, red room
home of the dead room
flashing lights
under stars so bright
crash boom, smash boom
now i am the red room
twirling motions
forever in hate emotions
last stop, fast stop
hurry, before it's over the top
i am the healer
i seize from the life stealer
red room, red room
over death's edge i loom
in anger grasp
all your hopes soon clasp
bright light, red light
it takes over all this night
dying screams that sieve
in the dead room i leave

1991