Jay and the Door

FinsburyParkCarrots
FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
edited January 2007 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
Jay stopped the doorman, Friday night
and asked him for a word.
JAY: "Keep an eye on who comes out
that room above your head."
Jay paid him forty notes
(or did he pay him forty-one?);
Jay waved goodnight but watched him hide
Behind a pillar-stone.


The morning came. Jay rose to meet
the doorman, still downstairs.
JAY: "Who was it in there last night
Who made that holy noise?"
-"Why, it was YOU and only YOU,
as anybody knows!",
the doorman said, his forty-two notes
Thrown back in Jay's paws.


Jay ran upstairs and asked his love,
"Who is it who comes in?"
She stared at Jay as if the grave
was welcoming him in.
"It's only YOU! It's always YOU!
How dare you question me!
Next time, you'll make your fears come true,
When someone GETS your key"..........


1996
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    I've heard of places, shops in town
    Where, if you choose, you can head down
    To get your nails chewed, such-a-way
    To twitch, and wring your hands, and sway,
    And make great Porky-Pig-Big eyes,
    Boo-hoo non-sequiturs and sighs,
    And clang the same word seven times
    in seven breaths, like death-knell chimes...

    Next time you get to wear a frown
    Please let me know how you get on

    cos

    Somebody
    spied
    the
    grin
    you
    wear
    alone.
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Jay told the courts he killed the horse
    Because Dan walked his road.
    The Judge roared, "That's the worst excuse
    I think I've ever heard."
    The pressmen in the gallery
    let loud laughs fill the hall
    And the way Jay flashed his hunter's eye
    was noted down by all.


    Dan took the stand, held out his hand
    and swore he couldn't lie
    The Brief asked, "Did Jay use the knife
    because you'd come his way?"
    "That horse was MINE!", Dan said in time:
    "That's MY horse that he STOLE!
    He led it out from my front gate
    and dyed its patch with coal."


    "So had you come back to reclaim
    the horse that was your own?",
    The Brief asked, through his
    handkerchief
    of sweat mopped from Jake's crown.
    Dan said "No way. I'd come to say
    My horse was cursed from birth:
    The fields that creature rode all failed:
    Now, I've increased my worth."

    1999
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    I
    saw the birches
    once again

    I lay
    and heard the gulls
    within the rain

    And I was dead at the oldest stone
    And my bones bared all I'd never known

    But I loved the birches once again.
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Windowview

    (A political song, actually, but feel free to interpret it anyway you like:) )

    (It's in DADGAD)


    Each house has a window, and I know that each house has much the same view
    So I know the old man at the window is telling the truth about you

    He says:
    You've lied
    You'd used
    You've stolen
    you've broken
    You're sick
    and as mad
    as his word

    He says
    You'd kill
    You'd mimic
    You'd reign
    And you'd ravage
    You're dead
    And you want me
    for food

    He says I'll see.....


    I dreamt you'd no shadow
    And I dreamt that I found no lines on your hands
    And I dreamt of the crows from the meadow
    You'd sent to pick into my mind

    I dreamt
    You knelt
    You wept
    You beckoned
    You mastered
    You rose and laughed
    draining my blood
    I dreamt
    you changed
    you flew
    you thrived on my neighbours
    As you saw them each dropping their guard

    I dreamt
    I see
    I dreamt
    I see.....


    (instrumental)

    And when the old man dies
    Dare you meet my eyes?.....


    1996
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    But the thing with days quite recent
    Is that I find y'all pretty decent.

    2004
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Sylvie makes it plain that she never broke her wing
    She faced her trials alone, kept her mind through everything
    And she laughs just as she's turning
    When we talk of keeping stable loves down


    Sylvie worked so hard, to keep afloat her home
    But it's there she made her bread, for the beggars and the lame
    Who would ask her on her turning
    If she'd like to keep a stable love down

    They'd said:
    "Sylvie, I can't say just where the crux lies:
    Perhaps it started when you were small
    You had half the hands on earth to grace your soft face
    But they'd be damned if you'd ever keep still"....

    Ha......

    Sylvie scores our range.
    She says "You men never change.
    You can say you'll change it all
    But you only fool your soul."
    Still, I ask her as she's turning,
    Would she like to hold a fragile love down........?



    Thanks Yellow. You inspired me.
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Now I'm gonna say "That's How"


    That's how the sky fills the graves up around here
    That's how the dark is just black and that's clear
    That's how you tire from watching for thunder
    That's how the day's just as long as the year.

    Here's how an author dismisses his story.
    Here's how a talker halts, with his mouth dry.
    Here's how a nation pulls bloodpints for glory.
    Here's how a poet dies: Wanting to die.

    That's how.



    Ithangyou. Improvisationformeself.
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    I'm in love with a drumslide girl with her long hair as cast as the night's mountainbird......

    that's for dyao......:)
  • Yellow
    Yellow Posts: 699
    Originally posted by FinsburyParkCarrots
    Sylvie makes it plain that she never broke her wing
    She faced her trials alone, kept her mind through everything
    And she laughs just as she's turning
    When we talk of keeping stable loves down


    Sylvie worked so hard, to keep afloat her home
    But it's there she made her bread, for the beggars and the lame
    Who would ask her on her turning
    If she'd like to keep a stable love down

    They'd said:
    "Sylvie, I can't say just where the crux lies:
    Perhaps it started when you were small
    You had half the hands on earth to grace your soft face
    But they'd be damned if you'd ever keep still"....

    Ha......

    Sylvie scores our range.
    She says "You men never change.
    You can say you'll change it all
    But you only fool your soul."
    Still, I ask her as she's turning,
    Would she like to hold a fragile love down........?



    Thanks Yellow. You inspired me.

    oh wow...

    you know i'm into about the 30th of 1775 poems of Dickinson at the moment...

    as SOON as i'm done with that (holy christ she's amazing ~ Dickinson, I mean) i intend to sink my teeth into Plath...

    and Emmerson and Thourough (sp?) are authors i want to read

    thank YOU, carrots :) I wouldn't have known to look there :)
    It's all yellow.


  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    is easier to scroll down....

    Than what is

















    not.
    :)
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    He bumped an bumped and bumped
    till his stump
    Hit de plaster.
  • Yellow
    Yellow Posts: 699
    :)
    It's all yellow.


  • moreandmore
    moreandmore Posts: 164
    well :)


    um...


    right :D
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    I feel like someone just found one of my ole notebooks. :D
  • Buru
    Buru Posts: 8,473
    what I like of old notebooks and poems is to see how your voice and style changes...

    :)
    y la banda de Guille... cuando toca?
  • justam
    justam Posts: 21,415
    I like these.

    I'm glad to see the "Sylvie" words written down because it was easier to understand the story reading it compared to hearing it sung. :)
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    justam wrote:
    I like these.

    I'm glad to see the "Sylvie" words written down because it was easier to understand the story reading it compared to hearing it sung. :)


    There are two Sylvie lyrics knocking about! :D
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    good stuff fins. i like reading your writing cause it's not like mine. :)
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • justam
    justam Posts: 21,415
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    There are two Sylvie lyrics knocking about! :D

    Oh! :)
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  • depopulationINC
    depopulationINC Posts: 2,074
    you alway manage to amaze
    The only thing I enjoy is having no feelings....being numb rocks!

    And I won't make the same mistakes
    (Because I know)
    Because I know how much time that wastes
    (And function)
    Function is the key

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