Nightlife I-III

Nightlife

What do you know about my nightlife?
When do you see me call the cab?
Why do you think you know me?
When does your talk just turn to gab?

I ponder the existence of everything
Before I enter the scene
If I really had it my way
Everyone’s nightlife would be so clean

These here eyes have seen so much
They could turn hell’s fire to blue
Look right through ‘em, rotating rods and cones
What is an Iris to do?
So colorful is my nightlife
And so scandalous my décor
That you’d think I was running crack
Well yes, my eyes are piecing and my dress astounding
So I’ll ask you to take two big steps back

Don’t touch me in my nightlife
Don’t look into my drunken eyes
And tell me that my headache will leave
Don’t close my umbrella when it’s raining
Don’t cry when my sad story is telling
And pretend to wipe my tears on your sleeve

I could dance the circle around him
And him, and her, and him, and her
And burrrrr, it’s cold
But I’ll keep on dancing
Just taking a chance in
This cold, wintry delight
My eyes are in sight
But there are snakes in my hair
Yet do you even care
That my glance can turn you to stone
Take a look all around
The kids stop and moan
I’m so beautiful
So very beautiful
As now I start to dance
I’m dreaming of fairies
But my are they hairy
This is a dream of mine
In my nightlife

And the next time I dream of you
And what are we to do
When you pile some more on my plate
I already ate
This is what I do in my nightlife

But sometimes I’ll stop and stare
At the fuzziness in the air
And conjure up these magic fingers
To join me on this magical, disastrous adventure
What do you know of my dance
As I clippity-clop you into a trance
My moves are so beautiful
In this touching nightlife of mine
Yes, touching
For that is what I do in my nightlife

Clippity-clop, clippity-clop
Go her heels
In my nightlife

She opens the door
Let’s settle the score
It’s another tie, oh I wonder why?
Because it’s my frickin’ nightlife

Here we go round the prickly pear
Hoping to not fall inside
But it’s a prickly pear, a prickly pear
Open your jaws up wide
Tear it up and spit it out
Fall in a prickly pear and here it shout
It hurts the pear more than it hurts you

It’s just a syringe
And I’m just a tinge
Slightly more morose than a ghost
Who found out that he can no longer eat toast
For he is dead
These are the thoughts that run through my head
In my nightlife

Dad, where are you
Where are you
In my nightlife?
Are you driving my car
Did you go out very far?
Will I get to see you in the morning
Or will I get to see
Mr. Avery
Lying and telling you how good you are
This is what I see in my nightlife
As I stare at my reflection in a $13 drink

That is the disaster I see in my nightlife
When I can’t separate what’s good from what’s better
And what’s better from what’s the best
It’s a simple comparison
But I can’t see through these foggy glasses
That hang in the balance, in my nightlife
I wonder if the Dr. from Gatsby had the same problem
Or Gatsby, or Daisy, or, or, or in my nightlife

Give me an ice-nine and a tall glass of wine
This is how I’d like to start my nightlife
But there’s no end in sight
My nightlife is white
Where have all the Blacks gone
Where do they sing their hip-hop songs
In o nightlife of mine

Maybe I’ll enter this saloon
Or maybe the Club Red Toy Balloon
And don’t forget to take a pickchure muhther fuhker
At the wonderful Club Red Toy Balloon
My how our love still blooms
In the beautiful balloon
Pop

And so ends the nightlife





Nightlife II

Now my vision starts to settle
The blur begins to fade
The abyss becomes a river
Flailing before, now I wade
Into a substantial quiet
As I look around
Nobody is dancing
This place is upside-down
Everyone loses their balance
But I can stand on my head
This is the nightlife I dream of
Under the covers of my bed

My eyes begin to focus
On my vaulted hemisphere
Once I was a whole-piece
Now I halfway near
I stand atop this puzzle piece
While everyone else tightens grip
Blocking out the screams
We’re in for a lot of shit
Maybe you don’t even know it
Maybe you’re still swimming too
It’s time to regain our focus
Battle for remaining moments few
Of us remember before
What it was we did
Few of us will admit it
We’re cowards, and we hid

Nobody is dancing…
Someone tripped the cord
That’s all the time He bought me
That’s all I needed to sneak out the door

Praise be to the smoking section
Out of this whole mess
Oh wait that’s just the fury
Of a massive dose of cess

That’s not the door you wanted to enter
But it’s still your choice
My holler is an echo
Trapped inside my voice
Welcome to my nightlife

Now it’s on to another stage
Kicked up dust of an ancient age
Hallowed time with praise for a sage
Now he works for a minimum wage…

Now we’re back to glitz and glamour
Everybody jump and clamor
If she hollers, let her go
My…mom…said…to…pick…the…best…one
And you are not it

Why do these thoughts amaze me
So late into the night
I thought I regained my focus
I thought I regained my sight
Is this just a madman’s dream
Or is it connection from beyond
I saw you in a vision
And in it you sang this song

"We all go around the circle
Rowdy outside
Rowdy outside
Jump into the middle and…
WHOA
Everybody…falls…down"

Now I know I’m in for it
Sleeper curved onto the threshold
From concentric’s mouth I’ve heard the sentence
Banished, ohhhh yes, sooo banished

This is my nightlife





Nightlife III

And no, you cannot feel as high
As my glide through the bottom of the sky
Back and forth
I’ve run your track
I’ve sold your crack
It means nothing
While I glide through the night
And maybe I passed you as I ran by
And maybe you heaved an anxious sigh
When we did not meet eye to eye

And then the pain begins to settle in
But I wouldn’t tell you this again
Instead, look up
Look up
Now look straight ahead
And you’ll see tugging on my
Stylish DK Armband
And you’ll wonder if I’ve crossed over
And “told you so’s”
And “he was bound to’s”
Permeate
The ground underfoot
That I never touch…

The ship is setting for sail
In this midnight sky
Glimmering whitewater underneath
Lights up my life
A day I haven’t always dreamed of
Rather, a dream that days brought to me
The ring is a promise
That someday
This heart will open…

As we meet on the dance floor
And I’m to shy to say hello
I often wonder where’d we be
If I just called to say hello

As the crowd watches this awkwardness
You just laugh and grin
Releasing the damaged child
Buried so dangerously within

Somewhere from above
The lights begin to flicker
And we’re the only ones who see this
While everyone else can only shiver

We’ve driven through the lightning
And understood it’s quick fix
We’ve done time in Hollywood
And understood its tricks
Granted there’s a passion
For everything that’s fun
But knowing what we know
It’s only just begun

The rain begins to pour down
Fighting for power with the wind
Drenched within this attire
You wink a supercilious grin

The elements collaborate together
Purchasing you extra time
Brazen burning on the tongue
While I fight for one more rhyme

Slowly the pain begins to recede
The streets could be full or empty
I search the air for oxygen
And in my heart there is plenty

I understand why I’m gliding
Against the cold of wintry Night
In the distance balanced against stars
There is an end in sight

So I dance now toward the finish
And the Armband clings to me
I’ll be there when I’ll be there
When eyes adjust to see…

***

My breath is the white of the night
My breath is the black of the day
A little more time now
Back and forth
Visions of a staircase are blurred
When I think of my nightlife

Shots of you
Oxygen
Filtered out this night
Absorbed in the all of me
I give you my everything tonight
For it has been so long since I have given
Anything at all

I embrace the rain
I hunger for, but not for hunger
Memory is a perfect game
Delivered in intense fragments
And if we cycle back through
And piece together the truth
Like a beautiful quilt
It will keep us warm

What do you know of my nightlife?
What do you dare to ask?
Why aren’t you with me
When I ask you to dance?

Hours from now the freakshow ends
And your life fades from gray to gray
Black is black and white is white
Straight be straight, and gay be gay

Laughter fades like the end of the song
And so you can no longer sing along
Smiles turn into paychecks and time
Hearts aloud like pantomime

The echo of my thunder
Muffled by your drowned voice
Worlds collide like an eclipse
This is the nightlife of your choice

For a moment you may see my darkness
After we pass the light returns
Hiding my Nightlife fire
Living in the Eternal, it burns…