From A Star Spangled Pen

A Funeral Party And You Are All Invited
There's Jazz In The July Sun
And Places Do Double As Fallout Shelters

Pretty Blonde Girls Make It The Summer
Officers Rolled Up Sleeves
Ice Coffee Sweat Has Them Skipping Donuts

We Know Streets Are Lies But Not The Gold
Please Bring Back Gifts
From Places Where You Carved Your Name

I Hear They Do Be Swooning Your Accent
All So Easy We'd Say
We All Really Must Visit There Sometime

They Notice One Piece Of Shit Out Here
When There's So Many Inside
The Kind Of Thing Best Kept Under Hats

Rumors From Home Now Good To Hear
Life Is Lived Over Yonder
Wonder Will They Be True On Your Return

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Poggy

"Are You On Drugs, Hey?"
It's All He'll Ever Say
"Do You Know Who I Am?"
An Irish Boy In The U.S.A

A Sound Old Skin So He Is
'Til There's A Bit A Drink In Him
Something From His Line
When Blood Boils To The Brim

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Failing Fade

I Can't Help But Think I Never Should Have Thought
Look At Where That Cabin In The Woods Got Him
I Doubt She Will Ever Be Forever Ago, I Don't Know

You're Living On In These Words Like Tiny Worlds
Why Don't I Just Name Every One After You
You Love To See Me Care, You Feel It's Fair

Now You Wonder Why I Speak In Silence
I Moved Too Soon But Was Gone Either Way
So Please Stop Standing In The Doorway

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Le Love

Don't You Want To Be Crazy With Me
And Feel What Those Poets Speak
I'm Drunk Off The Idea Of It
And Breaking Who Have Yet to Commit
I'll Bring You To The Ends Of The Earth
And You'll See The Fall And Know It's Worth


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R.O.A.R

Uncoupled
We Might Have Woke Your Parents
Trousers Unbuckled
Around Our Ankles Like Your Presents
Our Shirts Crumpled
Upon Bedroom Floors These Opened Doors
Your Head Is Troubled
But Not As Bad As These Friends Of Yours
Unlocked And Locked They Stumbled
I Wish People Would Stop Walk In
Under Sheets I'm Smuggled
Good Thing You Have A Twin
Your Screams Muffled
A Mistake We Are Both Sure
Voices Jumbled
I Guess This Is Bonjour
Unhumbled

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In Big Fuck Off Letters

Something Lost In That Uplifting Chorus
Happiness Had You Searching In Your Thesaurus
For Words That Might Sound Right
'I'm Doing Well' Is Only Said With Bite
Now I'm Unheard And Slurred
Stop Wasting Pages With An Instrumental Word
If An Album Can Be Wrote
I Justify Drunken Poems And A Wailed Quote
At Least What He Said Was True
Sure Laura Was Miles Too Good For You
My Door Is Always Opened
Banging In The Wind As It's Hoping
Songs Endings Can Only Be
Going With Someone Else Who Is Not Me
Noah Your Songs Make Little Sense
When There Is A Boyfriend For A Picket Fence

Cigarettes Taste Better Than You
Opening Packets When Nights Are Out Of Tune
From A Tear Tasting Mouth
Its Amazing What Shocking Whiskey Can Spout
Roaming Outside The Confines
I Should Really Be Sticking To The Page Lines
It Was Going To Be Unheeded
But Where's The Lads When Theres Editing Needed
No Strangers I Know These People
We Will Spoon As I Can Only Sleep In Fetal
So Someone Put Me To Bed
I Think Enough Words Are Yet To Be Said
Good God My Hands Hurt
Punching Walls Over A Bit Of Skirt
Close To Picking Up The Phone
To Tell You I Am Ready To Disown

No Matter What My Sisters Said
It Was Only Water And Ground To Retread
So I'll Smoke Filter-less Cigarettes
As I Separate Memories From The Regrets
And My Pen Stops Writing
For The Teardrops And Ink Are Fighting
Like They Are Suppose To
When It Comes To Writing About You

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Fragment #32

You'd Need Too Be Drunk
Sir What Is Your Cheapest Wine
Its Just For This Hump

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Harvest Soon

Picked and Pulled From My Own Field
A Tráleen About Your Finger Sealed
Other Blades Still Grow
As Others Throw And Sow

One I Have Fashioned Into A Ring
Picked In The Earliest Of Spring
The Tráleen I Did Bring Her
Still Lingers Her Finger

I Once Promised I Would Marry You
And With This Ring Its What I'll Do
But Tráleens Do Not Stay
They Decay And Fall Away
And Undo

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Fragment #31

Dyed Suicide Blonde
Least Now It Matches Her Eyes
A Gothic Baptize

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Fragment #30

He Did Show Me Love
And You Showed There Was More Than,
From Here I Move On

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This Is For Her

To Her:
A Candle That Was Out And Ever Burnt
That Was All We Ever Were
But She Was There When You Weren't
And I Wish You Were Her

And To Her:
Nights When In Sheets We Were Sown
Every Moment Would Recur
And All The Nights That I Was Alone
I Only Thought Of Her

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Fragment #29

Hanging Cigarettes
From Her Lips, It Dips And Strips
Brunette Bedroom Set

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Fragment #28

Old Synthesizer
Call His Boots To A Dance Floor
Fuck Weddings And Dads

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Fragment #27

Cheap As Fucking Chips
You Would Think Them Fake Lashes
Would Cost A Bit Though

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Codladh Sámh

Just Tell Noah I Am Asleep
He Does Worry
Lift The Sheets To Where
I Can Reach
There Is Nothing Between Nights So
What's The Hurry

Leave The Window Open For
The First Birds
Don't Go To Wake Me Just Send
For The Father
And Lay With Me Until I'm Lowered
With His Words

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Words I Wish To Slip Beneath Your Door

Now And For Forever
You Will Always Be
The Measure Of My Love
The Salt Of My Sea

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Bolted And Broke

Down By The Cans Aside The Creamery
He Lay Without
Thistles Prickling His Ear
His Boot Untied
That Old Rust Gate Needed Fixing
He Never Did Get Around To It
The Longest Poorest Finger
Not A Gaudy Mark
His Chest Caved
It Had Always Given Him Bother
Where Was His Stick They Will Ask
But Little Use It Would Have Been
There Was A Loss Of Fear In It
From Many Marts Ago
Has Rawest Of Hides This Stud
Soon A Local Will Wrangle Him
Into Some Vacant Lot
Tagged But One Did Recognized It
And Upon Return He Will Be Found
Some Of The Boys Do Joke
With The Weight Of It
It May Cover His Costs

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Moth

I Am A Romantic
And I Will Not Share
With Or Without
Just Bring One To Bear

For This Is The End
Or The Start If You Choose
Make Up Your  Mind
It Is All Win Or Lose

I Have Dreamt Too Long
Of What Is Not Often Enough
You Can See My Hand
You Can Call My Bluff

I Don't Care Anymore
It's Yours To Break
But If You Want It
Then Keep What You Take

CK

Nothing Good Happens

It's After Two And You Know What To Do
But You Won't
No One Awake Except For You Two
So You Won't

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Troy, To Which I Sail

Bare Searching With Locked Lips
Your Finger Circles Beneath My Shirt
A Touch Could Send My Ships
Setting Sail Upon A Flirt

There's No More Weeks
Nor Months That Come Between
Lying Still Cheek To Cheek
As If We Had Always Been

With The Tips Of Our Noses
We Speak A Silly Word
A War From A Bed Of Roses
The Sail The Wind Has Stirred

Only Then I Couldn't Sleep
Knowing What The Morning Takes
In Darkness We Will Keep
Drift Again As Dawn Breaks

Why Must One Fall
Just A Little Bit Less
I'll Hold On 'Til Last Call
Fingertips Can Only Caress

I Would Not Leave But
It Rose And So Must I
Before You Make The Cut
Depart With The Morning Sky

Helen, I've Returned To New Places
With More Waves In The Sea
No Land Or Boat Replaces
Where I Wish To Be

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Fragment #26

Cacti Are Not Soft
On Window Sills, Cut And Still
Until It Flies Off

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Fragment #25

One Of These Is Real
It Is Lampshade Not Lightshade
You Live In The Other

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Fragment #24

Shower Shaves Away
Bearded Nights Around His Mouth
But Lipstick Will Stain

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Fragment #23

Pulp Fiction Was Fun
Squirming As The Ear Falls
Did I Mix Them Up

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Fragment #22

No Panama Hats,
They Can't Hold Out In This Rain
Spoke From Roof Gardens

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Fragment #21

Home's Feet Under Me
In Buckets, All Cut Speechless
Sailing Out To Sea

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Fragment #20

Light Never Lingers
For Eyes Shut, Bound Or Sealed
By Peaking Fingers

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An Empty Whiskey Glass Drenched In Lipstick

Rough Is The Day
And Hollow The Night
T.V Static Puts You In A Panic
As You Bury The Bulb But Leave The Switch On
Wallet Need Not Be Beat With Kisses And Red Wine Stains
I Get Lost In Your Bookshelves As My Name Is Spoke Of In Each
Jim Beam Me Up To This Oddity Of An Odyssey Through Past Nights
A Perfume Bottle Smashed On The Bed And She Whispers 'Are You Ready?'
Rough Is The Day
And Hollow The Night

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Runway

Runway Will Move Beneath Your Feet
Lights Flickered Beat From A Window Seat
Each In Perfect Line It's The City Spine
Made With Orange Shine, They Pave Way Home

Runway Is Found As We Slow To A Crawl
Out In Urban Sprawl For The Final Recall
To The Gate You Awoke, The Hostess Soft Spoke
In The Land You Revoke To The Saddest Of Men

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Heat

Ripping Shower Curtains
While Holding Thighs
Fall Upon The Tiles
Still Holding Eyes

Trickled Water Drops
Mixed With Sweat
Both Moving Bodies
Left Dripping Wet

Her Cradled Back
While His Dug Nails
Under Bathroom Lights
Other Love Pales

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