for everyman

To you I am a Father
For another I am a friend
To my sisters aways a brother
To the wind something to bend
To the elephant a flea upon the earthTo the red rose just a thief, plucked and given you
Token from your friend
Do you my mouth tell wonders of the stas ror just idle pratlle
A childs rattle
Could do better.

fron Suyia to Lissos

The harbour slips behind as my feet mount the gorge

Cicadas shrill song from every tree

Stink of Billy goats and semen on the rocks

Small piles of stones as in the high Himalaya

Where pilgrims have passed

Cypress roots push between the rocks

Wind so still yet Africa is never far away

Climbing up,climbing up the rocky hillsides

Until the hill becomes flat

(what a place to love you, the view so huge and wide )

along the earthy path where donkeys have left their mark

Then suddenly the view of Lisssos where once the Romans ran

Tiny blue Bay , turquoise water lapping

Lissos Bay-for you with my eyes.

love Jimmy

Heart Garden Grow.

I must plow the heart earth
Leave it fallow for a season or two
Let the ravens & crows settle
Where there used to be you
Let weeds grow, shambles and thorns
Get it back to before I was born.
Tear out the roots of the love 
That took over the garden so wild
Let snow & rain do their job from inside
Let the winds blow away the last seed of love
That dared to stay longer than a day.
If the time comes when i plant again
Only a savage garden will grow
Where foxes and field mice may rest
Without your love still in my chest.

For Miss Perl

My Boulevard of Broken  Hearts
Makes a man feel that he ain't got a start
Wish the clouds would leave my eyes
And I'd see you through unbroken eyes.

Highway dust and a woman's lust
Christ in a Church, the window so still
Second Hand Redemption
A blessing from afar
Baby just let me drive your car.

Thunder in a V8, lightening on the hills
Screaming tyres and a pile of unpaid bills.
Drift down to the Delta
Katerina's been and gone

Cleaned out the City where Billy Bowden blew
Storyville Blue in a pouring sky
Louisiana stew, crawfish for sale
A dollar a dozen, who's buying tonight?

be a Fly .

Be a fly and annoy me
Be a moth & burn out in my fire
Be a snake wrap me tight
Be a woman & love me all night.
Be gentle in the morning
You can treat me bad at night
Take me with you when the winds begin to blow
Use me as a sail on the oceans waves
but in the cabin, I'll be your slave.

The Avenue of love.

The cops dont care on the avenue of love
The whores all share on the avenue of love
The dogs of hell are gentle as mice
On the Avenue of love.

Dead roses gather in the shadows
Poison ivy creeps up the walls
Small tarantulas so cool
Don't take me for no fool.

Done my time on the Avenue of love
Written too many rhymes on the Avenue of love
Got jailed and got busted went to Rikers Island and got back-slided
Just 'coz I live on The Anenue of Love.

Wheels go round

I could've been born a elephant but the space was too small

When as a tiger I came I just became big game

for some asshole with a rifle & small dick

When in Eskimo incarnations I refused invitations

From walruses & women so white

Reborn in Japan with a geisha like fan

My obo always got in the way.

When born in Brasil an Indian I became

Under the canopy of the forest so huge

Born this time, It really took time

To fall in love with you

Wake up woman !


Life i so short whatever you've got

It's true that time is on the wing

Could i have done more than walk out the door

With a tear escaping my eye,

like a miser your loving you gave

it dripped down the walls sticky and salty.


This time ill try to conquer the sky

Whatever it costs i'll do

Leave your body behind, you still twist my miind

intp knots of complexity so raw
Sisal & string, do you still wear the ring

I found in Chorki Bazaar

The Bosphurus, a Muetzim hollering
Call to prayer an electric cacophony

Dead sea gulls at night fly in Circles so tight

Round the dome of Anya Sofia.


La danse du ventre as they told me it ws called

Up some seedy street by the sea

I was caught unawares when you climbed up the stairs

With a rich Pasha from Tashkent!

You're charms you sell, a receptionist from hell

Why did I sign my name?