Monday, January 29, 2024

Sure--come to the beach they cried

 

Come to the beach! they yelled at me

come and play on the sand

two-thousand years later

i'm a salty old man



Saturday, February 3, 2018

Damn



there you are
i missed you
you hissed me
but i love you, baby
i always will

Saturday, July 11, 2015

In Due Time


Detective Neptune
will write his play
But first he must
meditate

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Sunday, May 31, 2015

Sure, Openly Mock Detective Neptune


Bite me.

Image from OregonLive.com--
Kristyna Wentz-Graff

Yeah, bite me.  

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Sunday, May 24, 2015

Detective Neptune Sings in Court


if you could ever catch the criminal
who flew down from upon high
you would find out pretty quickly
god has no alibi

if you brought about the charges
found a witness who could cry
the jury would discover
god has no alibi

not separate from sorrow
not aloof and never shy
still it might surprise you
god has no alibi

something heavy
something light
sometimes darkness
sometimes light
mysterious tremendum
out of here and out of sight
out of sight
out of sight
good night

if you wanted justice, poor you
ain't no answers, only sighs
the baliff sweats upon the bible
god has no alibi

when the choir sings to heaven
their songs all upon high
coming down would be the gavel
god has no alibi

you can visit god in prison
maybe then you'll find out why
for the crime of not existing
god has no alibi
for the crime of not existing
god has no alibi

something heavy
something light
sometimes darkness
sometimes light
mysterious tremendum
out of here and out of sight
out of sight
out of sight
good night

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Saturday, March 14, 2015

Thursday, December 11, 2014

The Play's the Thing


you sit on your throne
with a fish on your fork
and bellow and chortle and hack
a king of the waves
and undersea caves
pray, won't you come back?