henrythevamp

Happy birthday SG!

Hey SG it's my birthday

'Bout To Give In To You

Copyright 2023 by Michael Walker

Took the ferry took the ferry to the city uh huh

With my guitar

Wrapped up in a garbage bag

Played for hours

Outside The Museum of Art

Got eight dollars

And a Japanese business card

'Bout to give in

'Bout to give in to you

Walked around

Somebody tried to sell me a...
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End Zone Dance

Copyright 2023 by Michael Walker

We all deserve

An end-zone dance

Something to get us

In the papers

We all deserve

An end-zone dance

Do you know

How you're

Gonna shake it?

We all deserve

An end-zone dance

After all the shit

We've been through

We all deserve

A lollipop

Bright red

And full of sugar

We all deserve

A lollipop

Endorphins...
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Mary Won't Allow It

Copyright 2023 by Michael Walker

Mary won't allow it

Sunshine

As anodyne

Sweet chords

On a

Hummingbird

Guitar

Mary won't allow it

Her staff of

Busy bees

All the honey

Yet to be

Gleaned…

Her son didn't die

For your sins

Her son died

On a cross

Of Gold.

Her son died

In foreign wars

Her son died

Before

He was...
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La Guerre

Copyright 2023 by Michael Walker

They came down from the Tower of Babel

In their crazy quilts of words

They could no longer

Understand each other

So they threw stones

Instead

And that was the beginning

Of war

And a million

Wars more…

We'll have a splendid little war

In the wake

Of the Archduke's bier

Send the boys

Into No-Man's Land

With...
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She ended by saying

Nothing ever ends

And then

She died…

The room was

Small and hot

And the world outside

Honked all its horns

Just as it had

Seconds before

Imperative

Michael Walker copyright 2023

"Elevate your brand"

I don't even know

What that means

Anymore.

All I see

Are tattoos

On dubious

Packages

Flotsam

And

Empty stores

Thought

I was

A spirit

Once-upon-a time

Thought I was

A thinking

Feeling

Bleeding

Human.

That's not enough

Elevate

Your

Brand

Sell more

Jetsom

Get tattoos

On every

Inch of you

An Elderly Lady I Know

Copyright 2022 by Michael Walker

Her eyes

Those rapacious

Cave dwellers

Hunt for more light

As the sun prepares

To take

Its final bow

They hunt

For a bloom child

Of flowers

Something she never grew

In all her

Many

Window boxes.

She craves

More paintings

More quilts

More

LIGHT

But bats have come

To roost

In her eyes

Rain...
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