For Rui Boy

  I acted out my life on stages With ten thousand people watching Now we’re alone and I’m singing my song for you  I know your image of me is what I hope to be I’ve treated you unkindly but darling can’t you see There’s no one more important to me So darling can’t you … More Remember when we were together

Memorializing Still-Living Children “Innocent victim of a blinded alley” Wasted and wounded, it ain’t what the moon did Got what I paid for now See ya tomorrow, hey Frank can I borrow A couple of bucks from you? To go waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda You’ll go a-waltzing Matilda with me I’m an innocent victim of … More A Wound That Will Never Heal

Admittedly that century lasted
A bare eight years. … More “The hope that tomorrow, the rain will fall upwards”