Love, Essentially

Everybody's got their Sodom and Gomorrah
Even the up righteous without a nightlife, and as boring as a defence secretary like Robert MacNamara
Who might go look but stand well back from the sprays of Vietnam and Niagara
Only difference between this that and the other is the printing on the ticket.


The economies making sounds that will shake you.
The sun feels closer, all the better to bake you.
Now you can feel empathy for them who were out of the blue slew
for no apparent reason other than hatred.

But the clever are carrying what looks like cleavers.
They have no training but they have the aptitude.
Needless to say they're eager
to apply their education and platitudes.
The benefits, they believe, are not meager,
when compared to those who have to work for a living and where there's no perks included.


Suicide bombings take minds that have had their share of stompings.
After years of grinding and hearing the greedy chompings.
After so many moons and so many swampings.
You'd think we'd catch on and not buy it.



Switch scenes move hips
To where they may let fly the chips
Get it while it's crisp
Just be careful if you try to deny it.


But the clowns are as busy as beavers
Amusing those who get their kicks acting rude
Amusing those with the starved for attention fever
And the permanently damaged amplitude
Better than those near professional grievers
Snacking on salted gratitude.


Get your hands on a compass or GPS
If you can read it and don't have to guess
exactly where it is that you have to commit most of your of transgresses.
But for peace of mind best to keep it a secret or have some philosophy prof reinterpret it.

Penal colonies alongside condominium complexes.
Its hard tell the differences
or calculate the distances.
Meanwhile the guys with the biggest axes are talking about the assets and telling how to split it.

The world has never been the same since they incorporated the cheaters.
Legal layers with selected litmus tests.
You can't detect the chill of their presence because they've turned up the heaters.
Raising the gates of reasons as they listen to the appeals and bequests.
But every innuendo in their education is an indication of their condemning them that chose not to lay down and purr.
And there's three other directions to turn to after you've gone west.


Hearing the drumming out in the sun.
Walking aware of the not too far away armed camps, reading the sonnets of John Donne.
Hoping not having to meet someone you have to shun.
On the other hand so what if you don't got the guts.

What won't wash no longer a hindrance
When you have friends in high places and the only rule, once a month with the wolves, participate in the full-moon dances,
Eyes full of romances.
It's one way to get out of a rut.


Down at the corner is where the action is.
Everybody looks lost but there's no lack of enthusiasm
For something that won't end up a big fizz.
And all your friends breaking out in spasms.
The fear taking effect, scratching your head like you're taking a quiz.
But be prepared to duck, here comes another low flying iconoclasm.


The scandals have hot handles
After you drop them you'll be going around in circles
Reacting to the bursting of bubbles.
Gonna take a lot of straight whiskey slugs
To numb the sticking out like a sore thumb nuance.
Gonna take a lot of hugs
And some knowledge of high finance.

The ships sail into the bay
Carrying every kind of cargo.
Let your imagination take sway,
See how far your fantasies can go.
Time to separate the blue from the gray
Time to turn pro

The dealer's flipping cards.
Watching closely are the guards.
From Broadway they send their regards.
Best place bets that won't leave you naked.

Don't ask questions that have an automatic chorus,
Gonna take a rough trade thesaurus,
Try and find a quote from Horace
That won't leave your tongue tied and your fingers forked.

Whatever it is that's happening
Can be figured to some satisfaction eventually.
It's the evolution of the geeks seeking to escape messy mishapenings.
Working on it exponentially,
Knowing it will all come to nothing,
What happens when you're buried in love , essentially.