The Stealer

                   Time you old wheeler dealer

                   you really aren't much of a healer

                   you're more of an essence stealer

                   As you fade out thoughts and

                   dry up desires

                   and slowly dim the lights of

                   our dream fueled fires

                   Leaving us where?

                   in old bodies

                   plagued with aches and care

                   and whatever was that guiding light

                   now its signal is not so bright

                   It all wears down then the

                   intensities fade and scatter

                   and as for the whole crazy game

                   time withdraws the stage for it to matter

Apparitions

                            

                   People of the shadows

                   silhouette a nowhere scene

                   passing through long

                   days of twilight like

                   ghosts who've never been

                   People becoming shadows

                   fading into the gloom

                   hiding behind some dark belief

                   that shields them like a tomb

                   They're not people,just shadows

                   drifting faintly down a weary hall

                   silent,indistinct figures disappearing

                   as the night begins to fall

Jaded Moon

                                  

                  

                                 

                   Beneath a jaded summery moon

                   I sing out a hollow,faded tune

                   of a tarnished world edged in gilt

                   and I act up my cheap part to the hilt

                   and though there are many deceits

                   that I could say....

                   but then the truth is always lied that way

                   (if only to keep the wolves at bay)

Pop Star

              Pop Star - Rock Star!  A rich bird  -  preening

              Doing pseudo intellectual interviews with the

              fascist-corporate media,validating they're a voice

              of truth and reason,bathing in the phony propaganda

              hype

              Yes a true idol! Peoples Choice! and he/she

              really doing something positive,when not banking

              the loot,buying the most expensive ...trivialities!

              Thats the irony  the last laugh  Oh yes they wave

              the flag and wrap themslves in it for the photogs

              But hey it sells lots of expensive autographed crap

              Music becomes the tool of the capitalaist-swine

              dictator-war-mongers  The slimy seductive persuaders

              who want to grab your ear and then your cash  but

              mostly you deaf,dumb and blind belief & allegiance

              Being led by rats we eventually become vermin

              Corporate Multi-National Rodents strike up a tune

              and hypnotically (brain dead) we follow and drown

              in their cheap plastic sea of manipulation and greed

              and so lets all sing along Hail Hail Hail...

              long live the Long Arm of Rock & Roll!

Hollywon't

                              

                   Hollywoods plastic heart is pumping

                   tinsel through its 10 percent brain

                   Another performance another splash

                   hype the advertising and

                   its as good as trash

                   The hungry spotlit video eyes

                   are ready and rolling

                   making a meal of any situation

                   no matter how anemic or pathetic

                   The "Creature" is in motion

                   pictures flash through its

                   hollow mind

                   It makes no sense of it all

                   and sees only dollar signs

                   It takes its first steps

                   on tripod legs

                   gives birth to a litter of

                   actors,agents,producers

                   and other semi creatures!

                   The "meal" gone through the animal

                   its finally excreted and scooped up by

                   the mercenary media who praise it as

                   the"FABULOUS/WONDERFULL" New Film!

                   and then they proceed to feed it

                   with glee to the moronic public!

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Ghetto

    A bleak wasteland surrounds this life

         nothing marks or differentiates the terrain

         there are no horizons or borders

         there is only that sound...

         that low moaning sound

         of a bitter wind

         that blows mockingly

         through the smoldering ghettoes

         of my burned out dreams