This one is dedicated and inspired by my friend Roy Levosh.  You put the idea in my head about being in the chair, under the gun, getting a tattoo.  But in writing this, I realised it is also a great little analogy for what we do in the name of getting and staying fit.  Hope you enjoy it.   Today it hurt, As it will tomorrow. Pain is our bodies way Of saying,   “Enough is enough! Time to take it easy.”   But sometimes pai...

I love the days of me and my girl In the sun watching clouds unfurl Or on the couch watch a favoured movie Laughing and loving being togetherly   I love the nights of my and my girl Playing the bend and stretch and curl Feeling the love between our skin Letting the cooling sweat soak in   I love the mornings of me and my girl Bedsheets and hair turned in a whirl Dizzy with dreams had of each other Of enchanted lands, l...

The world is out there But this room is a comfort The box glow keeps me warm And I feel safe here, inside Pictures from out there Make me paranoid, checking the doors I don’t want anything in here Giving rise to my insecurities   So don’t come knocking Cause I won’t answer I might say I’m going away But do I really mean it?   My world is encapsulated In the cotton wool of possessions Too much is never enough To ...

Beauty like a vacuum Sucks the breath out of me I can't look at her She's too bright to see Tangled dark on her head It's a sweet abyss I'm captured forever by her Brilliant, radiant bliss   Beauty like a dagger Piercing my skin Etched in the flesh of my heart A tattoo of my sin I can barely see her She's a flashing star I'm caught in her gravity Destined to circle her from afar   Beauty like a...

I start to write Then inspiration Takes flight Like startled birds Maybe ducks Or pheasants If I could I’d have a brace To save face Fashion a verse About something Pleasant But the birds That are words Have escaped The only way To capture them Would be to fly Ridiculous I know But if I will it I could let go Of this Earth Take to the sky To the sky Of untold paragraphs Of boundless images Of defining allusions And genius analogies But I’m left staring At ...

I descend Under condescension Broken-eyed And watering a storm You defend An untenable position Sowing bitterness Like seeded corn I decline A callous invitation Into arguments You’ve angrily drawn Instead suggesting Self-copulation If you could find A bone to be worn

They say I’m lazy Whoever they are While I walk everywhere They drive a car They say I’m careless I don’t give a hoot At least I’m conscious Of when I pollute They say I’m shallow And my skin is thin But I know enough To shut up when I win They say I’m led By the seat of my pants Life is a risk We all must chance They say I’m motivated By drugs and sex As they suck down drivel From their television sets They say I’m lazy Careless and shallow But they’re enviou...

Down in the yard there’s a spot on the ground Where not even bindi-eyes will grow That’s where the old dog will surely be found When summer is high and the hot winds blow It is said there is a doorway buried under there And beneath it, stairs leading down It doesn’t explain why people come and stare But might explain the darkness that hangs over town So I took to the dirt with the Lord in my heart And with a mattock and shovel in my hands I knew I couldn’t stop once I made a st...

Never let it be said I’m one to push a point Or if you don’t agree with me You must be wrong My fight is not yours And you sure do have your flaws Yet yours make you weak While mine keep me strong While flaws themselves Don’t make up my strength My search to correct them Keeps me on track While I continue To learn and grow as I seek You mourn your desires And miss what you lack So at the end of this Are you still trying to score Wouldn’t it be easier to let it be Wit...

She can’t tell me she knows what for When I’m the one standing at her door Too afraid to ring the bell in case she’s home I’m always sitting on the steps waiting, alone I’m in a constant state of flux All I’m really hoping for is a relationship redux But she is always busy with someone new Rubbing out the chalk marks I so carefully drew Around everything I thought we shared Tender moments that show we cared All these are now erased and gone No more favourite restaurant or soppy son...

I used to be able to take it But my resilience has waned I shelter behind false exuberance I can hardly keep it contained The light I thought I could always see Were only spots in my eyes The things I thought I could be Are now too easily denied I used to be able to fight it Now I can hardly lift my hands The battle I always thought I’d win I now hardly understand I tried to unfurl my desire’s wings To see how high I could fly But the higher I went all I could feel Is emo...

Faith, manifest Is in her smile Her quick eyes Her delightful voice I bow down Repentant, servile Pray that I Will be her choice There might be A heavenly plane And just as likely There is nought To death I’d run Should she attain A higher throne In God’s court Maladroit, clumsy Is how I feel When she deigns To look my way But I would die Rather than reveal How she steals My love away There might be A future here Just as chances Are for none But I would succ...

It is said God, oh god, watches everywhere If this is the case then what happened to my hair? I had a great head about ten years ago But now it flat out refuses to grow I’ve also noticed something of great concern If heaven and hell exist then I am doomed to burn Because every demon I see is always bald Unlike the hirsute Son of the Lord But like that Alfred E. madman I refuse to worry I’ve lived a good life and have done nothing to feel sorry But before you go telling me what I...