on the spot vol. 2

mookie d

"the last waltz blues"

No wonder Richard Manuel
took matters into his own hands
He was betrayed by a modern day Judas
(Yes, you Robbie)

No one could see
the shape you were in
Maybe because Neil Diamond
was hogging the spotlight

You tried the honkies
and you tried the crackers
shunned marshmellow overcoat
and settled on THE BAND

The piano, the organ,
The slide, or the skins
A master musician that
went unrecognized

So it ended drunk in a
cheap hotel
I wonder if dear Robby cried
when Levon cut you down






Spontaneous. Just like the one up top. That one is called...the gonorrhea blues.

lifeisworth

sweet dick
drunk in a hotel
alone
save the latter day saints
and his innocence

fall prey to fame
the love of art
an achille's heel
that surely cries wolf
to the mountain lions
stalking thier reservations

somewhere down that crazy river










"now me and my mate were back at the shack
playing spike jones on the box
she said, i can't take the way he sings
but i love to hear him talk
and that just made my heart drop
to the bottom of my feet
that's when that little sweet thing of mine
dipped her donut in my tea

hee hee hee

we're going up on cripple creek
that's where she sends me and
if i spring a leak
she mends me
i don't have to speak
she defends me
a drunkards dream
if i ever did see one....



bown down ooh dow dow doo dee do le doo de doo....


oh dee lo de oh doh doh..."

mookie d

hey, i like yours better. I get bummed out every time I watch the last waltz. I have to skip ahead to Van Morrison in that crazy jumpsuit doing those leg kicks. Kudos on the poem.

lifeisworth

van's a nut


i love The Band, too ~ so you put that little diddy in my head and it's a good one...




thank YOU (:

lifeisworth

oh! and i knew a guy in school named richard sweat...




no shit...




i was reading off names and said, "for the love of pete who's parents named them RICHARD SWEAT???"

he was standing not two feet away from me




open mouth
insert foot

















lol... watch him read this post now, pm me and say, "lifeisworth, when are you going to let it drop???".... lol