pennies & tails

Pennies & Tails: There was a word or phrase that escapes my brain It had the melody of a sweet song of rain. It danced all the pain away As you’d layed naked out in the shade. There was a turn at the end of the street That knocked and tumbled at my feet. Jesus Christ came back and played the beat While Judas sat stone face and a little too neat. There was a sign posted on the front door But the floor boards were rotting and sore. The teller at the store had more to score Than the land master and all his chores. The chords on the machine gun stand Played all night long with the band Jesus and Judas sat and clapped their hands And the man with the fan ran to clasp the clamps. There was a cry that came from up the mountain Ellie Mae was tired and didn’t hear the shoutin The old man by the fountain pulled a shotgun Ellie Mae tried drawing open the curtain The string was stuck and she pulled and pulled The cry became more faint and turned to a lull The old man tried to fire that big old bull But it backfired and the smoke and debris hit em in the skull. There were signs of warning and of waning That where distinctly uncannily wavering The flailing of the spanning climbed steadily To the beating of dumb founded drumming. She was boldly finger picking at her stockings He was shyly thumbing thoroughly at gravity While the waitress in black netting kept serving coffee, And stating to the ceiling that everything is so dreamily dreamy There was a word or phrase that escapes my brain That lingers in the veins of my darkest pain. There was a word or phrase that erases my shame Tears apart at fame and lame old lames with weird names There was a word or phrase that escapes my brain There. Was. A. Word. Or. Phrase. That. Escapes. My Brain.