Homelife Poems

Idle Folly

Down at the corner barroom
The fellows gibe and jest
...

I'm here to make confession
at your imposing grave.
You taught me that discretion
was never for the brave.
...

PITY THE BEAUTIFUL


Pity the beautiful, said Dana Gioia,
...

And when you left it was just utter smithereens,
adorning all those places we had made it once,
or twice or more and often, with abject abandon
I do remember cruddy details but will you?
...

God loves the beautiful.
He has clothed the earth
And the heavens with beauty,
And with a father's joy
...

You think my life's a fairy tale
As happy as can be
Knight in shining armor
Saves the damsel in distress
...

I know it was hard for you,
...

Your ways aren't right,
stop the things you do,
you know what I mean,
the cutting to taking pills,
...

Jeopardy a wasteful game
a homelife you can not attain
If in fact you show yourslf worthy
Do not make your inner cloak dirty
...

I will go to a place today
And I went to the same place yesterday
And I don't mind this
...

I will go to a place today
And I went to the same place yesterday
And I don't mind this
...

God loves the beautiful.
He has clothed the earth
And the heavens with beauty,
And with a father's joy
...

Idle Folly

Down at the corner barroom
The fellows gibe and jest
...

PITY THE BEAUTIFUL


Pity the beautiful, said Dana Gioia,
...

if my notebooks could speak
theyd tell a thousand of painful stories
some would tell of my homelife
some would tell of my pain
...

Jeopardy a wasteful game
a homelife you can not attain
If in fact you show yourslf worthy
Do not make your inner cloak dirty
...

Your ways aren't right,
stop the things you do,
you know what I mean,
the cutting to taking pills,
...

I know it was hard for you,
...

You think my life's a fairy tale
As happy as can be
Knight in shining armor
Saves the damsel in distress
...

And when you left it was just utter smithereens,
adorning all those places we had made it once,
or twice or more and often, with abject abandon
I do remember cruddy details but will you?
...