Dream of You 2009/08/31

Revolution Street 2009/05/17

What You Deserve 2008/11/26

Warning Smiles 2008/10/15

Save Your Friday Nights 2008/10/02

Now that I’m All Alone Now 2008/06/28

Now that I’m all alone now

Now that my heart is dry
I’m reaching for the stars
To meet my maker
And fly into the sun
I’m poking around corners
Left open to conclusions
Now that my heart is dry
Now that my skin is wrinkled
I start reaching for forever
Into the backwards drawings
Of the universe’s pull
I look back to who
It was that [...]

That’s it I’m writing it 2008/06/18

At my body’s open windows
I watch next chapters characters
Interact on the sidelines
Breathing tomorrow’s perfume
Having a heyday
On the road to my loss
Between fiction and reality
Facing a golden opening

It is today that I decided
That’s it
I’m writing it.

Originally AUJOURD’HUI by guimond
Translation: author.

When the Text Works 2008/06/13

If this text works
Then the Gods must be crazy
Or the Coca-Cola bottle hit’em in the head
For I am still here
Knee deep in this sh…
Fighting for the right
To ask for a permission
To try and do
What’s right
Or wrong for that matter
For since that which goes up
Does what it does on it’s way down
Whatever seems right
Has got to [...]

What I didn’t want 2008/04/19

I am a little bit of loneliness,
a little bit of disregard
Handful of complaints,
but I can help the fact,
that everybody can see these scars
What I want you to want,
what I want you to feel
But it’s like no matter what I do,
I can’t convince you,
to just believe this is real
So I [...]

Something Cracked 2008/04/18

And I half
opened an eye
The blaze of the afternoon sun
Blinding the moment
Then lighting it again
Wearily I rolled over
Something had broken
In my least favorite spot
Something had cracked
Then fell apart
Or perhaps I had dreamt it.

MERCILESS THANKS 2008/03/27

Thankful always I will be
Grateful from take one
As if I was declared dead
While still smiling on the live stream
Forever feeding sharks real questions
For which most answers brawl
To get to the top of the bait pile

I die every day exactly as if
I was only living to hear
The sound of one real question
To kill me [...]

ONE IN THE HEAD 2008/02/24

If you are one
Who believes in
A form of higher power
This is the moment
God singled out
To help me connect the dots
So I can draw the line
Somewhere between now
And too late to even try
With my serious control issues

This morning
I jumped from my bed
Like every other day
Just in case
This was the date
My [...]

OVER THE HILL 2008/02/12

I am over the hill already
Hurdling to make a comeback
And I like it here
Working on the basic soundtrack
Of the making of the elements
That constitute one’s life
A life that’s worth half the effort
Put into making oneself
Worth living as an outcast

Smiling at beautiful young women
Sometimes with a wink
Over the hill there are [...]

ALWAYS FOREVER 2008/01/26

for Denis Vanier, 1949-1999 RIP
Slip me a knot
As I jump through hoops
Where fire breathes no more
Aiming at the release
Staring at the future’s booty

Entering the temple
Through the big open door
Any day now
We will get released.

BEAT WORKS 2008/01/25

Like a weathering Jesus
Stuck to the dashboard
With a cello between her knees
Her soul kneels to the occasion
I spit in the rearview mirror

As if I could make it think
While the beaten up vehicle tears
Down the dirt road

To another colour hell

It used to be another story
Mostly in another town
Now it’s mostly waiting
For [...]

CALLING OFF THE SEARCH PARTY 2008/01/10

No need for search
Parties are such a bore
Once the ice is melted
Not even a red light
Is left set to blink

Announcing the end
Of the coming meltdown
And the beginning of
Time’s running astray
In the same direction
I originally took

I am walking the rim
Where I can slip off
The edge of a chart
Exactly where [...]

PLANNING WITHOUT PERMISSON 2008/01/07

Think of our children if you can
Running barefoot on the sidewalk
Fleeing in swarms
The monster we have cloned
To replace their hope
Of something near a future

Simply imagine if you may
Our genetic continuum
Fighting to escape
The perfect enslavement
Well nurtured by governments
To fill the gaping hole
Where humanity’s assets used to lie
 
Deep down under the ground
Plan on making [...]

Drifting Future 2007/12/17

Channel 9
Two moths
chase light in the alleyway;
burning paper-wings
for love.
Channel 22
Scanning through an abyss
of empty channels
with jaw-dropped & stains on
the white linen
tomorrow complies with
the drifting future
as it chews on fingernails
conscious & aware & alive
& drinking the moon’s reflection
from the face of the lake
The flood of static frames itself
over the wall & the white body
submitting & admitting
to [...]

Monday Morning Truth Shadow 2007/10/29

She’s a Monday morning
Disguised as a Monday
Morning moon shadow
In the factory of reality
She wears more bracelets
Than there were secrets
To Ali Baba’s unforgettable fall
In the magic potion
 

As imperial as not eating at all
Where castles are pretend fruits
She underplays the unsure radars
Under scrutinizing eyes
Which see nothing of this life
Beyond it’s ultimate [...]

Heart Missed a Beat 2007/10/28

 
In this game of give
Then take it away
 
Have to admit

That more than twice
My heart’s missed a beat
 
Nuclear powered shoes
Are accidents threatening to happen
 
They just happen to wait
Too close to the curb
 
And you know what they say
About trucks in the rain
 
While the beat of things dont always
Necessarily catch the comprehend
 
And this [...]

LOVE LURKS BEHIND THE DOOR 2007/10/26

My love is somewhat stuck
On the poetic underside
Of this here invisible door

 
It sticks like chewing gum
To the wrong surface of things
Like standing upside down
Beneath a floor

 
Love waits always off course
A little too far from love it seems

Scattered astray in the lottery
Of definitely erroneous numbers
That stolen tickets won’t fix
 

My love is [...]

TO ONLY SHE WHO KNOWS 2007/10/25

Only she who knows
Sufficiently about me
To understand how
Moreover why
When time came
I accepted the blame
For scars I wished she saw
And tears no longer withheld
To kiss her hip
And pierce her heart

 
Now that mixed emotions
Catch me so all alone
I search for a way
To make it back
To this future we shared

Of course it’s you
I am writing [...]

insider trading/ délit d’initié 2007/10/24

INSIDER TRADING
I cross the bridge of night
On the wings of an archangel
Pushed to centre stage
By defiance’s substance
Before the place blows
Shattering into a million pieces
 

DÉLIT D’INITIÉ
Je traverse le pont d’une nuit
Sur les ailes d’un ange maudit
Propulsé à l’avant scène
Par la substance du défi
Avant que cela ne saute
Et s’éparpille
En un million de morceaux