The Big Bang

THE BIG BANG

You are the unrumpled magic

That calms my tidal waves

Just when it’s time to incinerate

The cool beauty of the full moon

And consume her train of planets I feel your flame like a warm gash

Extinguish the sky

Blind the stars

And scorch the sea

Then I shudder as your thighs

Go colliding into mine

Houdini, is this Magic they call Love ?

TOUCH

Come closer, he says

The closer she comes

The harder it is for him

The harder it is for her, to get away

An old convertible

An open sky

Two seats converging

Touch me here

Where it ebbs and flows

Molten eyes, wider and widening

Lips soft and wading in the glow

She wipes away the fog on the windshield

And turns to see his molten eyes erupting

Her hand has wandered into the volcano

She sees the world in shadow, retracts

Feels its shrapnel in her body

Pierce and shatter the timid night

Steep, yes

Steep, yes

Steeper

Don’t stop, steeper

I don’t want to fall

FALLING

I like it here, she says

The clouds are higher

The leaves are taller

The grass is bluer than it's ever been

The music’s smaller in a bigger way

Kiss me again

She smiles at the beauty of it all

Hold me tight

I’m afraid I’ll fall

Diana knows the hunt is on

Though she divided darkness and light,

This newborn radiance is blinding

And there is no bow and arrow in sight

But who will catch me if I fall?

We’ll fall together

We’ll fall forever

The Virgin Tide is turning

My Darling, we must go

But the undertow is brimming

And I’m no good at swimming

She felt the cold warmth of his touch

Getting closer

RELEASE

This is the softest, longest, hardest

Thing I’ve ever …  Let me go!

I’m dizzier than a top

I’m head over heels

Just stop!

Oh let me go!

Higher, steeper

Softer, sweeter

Oh, let me go!

Nein, non, no!  - Can’t you understand?

I cannot, will not, is that clear?

Ha! Ha! Ha! I like the way you banter on

But I don’t believe a word, my dear

He kissed her hard against the window

We’ll fly like angels

We’ll fall like stars

We’ll fly forever

From Earth to Mars, to Venus

We’ll rent the Milky Way for our Honey Moon

If you’ll just say yes, my love

Now pack your bags, let’s go!

THE MAGIC BARREL

He draws his sword 

From the sheath

Comes a wand  

Stands her straight up in the magic barrel

Slashing her straight through the middle

A crimson flood, long and sweet

Where the desert had been - so much wasted heat

A crimson flood, so long and sweet

He vows:

I’ll grant you anything you wish

To which she smiles:

Is this magic – what they call love?

Houdini, my Darling, unmarry me right now!

SLIPPERY CLOUDS

But what is Love ?

A razor blade

You swallow

After a long French kiss

It strikes like a cobra

In One long hiss

Sleek arms

Crotched in love

I itch for you

To take me in

Again

French kiss me

To death

My love

I pine for your razor blade touch

Me here

In the soft place

Of my destiny

Now swimming

In your sea
So manly, so male

Only you can make me fe

Fee, Feel, Female

Again

 WHEN I CURDLE UP TO YOU

I’ve grown to drink from drains

Where the sun’s coarse voice

Gurgles like gargoyles spatting 

Forth their sultry offences

It makes my skin waver

Then crawl backwards at length

And longingly cry out 

Shackled, Sumptuous sin

Begin and again

When I curdle up to you 

My milk, like drained sequins 

Cries out  -

A crownless thorn bequeathed to you

Who said it would be forever

When the lips of the grass blades 

That sing upon my lips 

Curtail this lull a bye

With blood and lust?

  LIKE A CHARIOT ON FIRE

Back on the racetrack

Turn up the speed

Back on the racetrack

Take no heed

The world is dizzy

And I’m spinning like a top

The world is dizzy

And I cannot stop

I’m closing in

The earth grows rounder

The sky gets closer

I can touch the sun

On the racetrack
My life is flying by

Like a chariot on Fire

That wants to die

Higher and higher

I can no longer touch the ground

This time round

I’ll reach the sky

Throttle the motor

It’s running hot

My ears are roaring wild

I’m throbbing at breakneck speed

But something skids inside my head

Then the brakes crack down and I reel around

THE STRAIGHT AND NARROW

The racetrack is now a straight and narrow road

Full of stop signs and radar traps

I’ve got air conditioning, radio and color TV

My car is swift as it can be

Leather seats and cruise control

Now I’m set to go down the straight and narrow road

I only wanted a tune up, but I got this instead

It’s new and shiny and casts a shadow on my life

Every day and every night

My vows were sacred

But I’ve become his pawn

Everywhere I look

I see Checkmate

Got to find a way out of this hearse

But when I glide into first

I shift back into reverse

Gotta burn some rubber

Kick up some dust

What can be worse than all this rust?

So leave I did without a trace

Just some skid marks for keepsake

I was not a ride of confidence

Could only go around the block

On the straight and narrow road

Until I ran out of fuel

Until you ran into me

HEAD ON COLLISION

You broke my top speed baby

You throttle my engine, make it purr

I’m in the land of plenty now

And I would go for miles

Just to run your red light, darling

Just to make you mine

Yes, I would run a thousand red lights

And take a thousand fines

Just to get your siren going

Before you tail me down

And record the offense

So I can hang my head out the window

Ponder my transgressions, one by one

While you pen down

All the rules I’ve broken

And the heavy fine ….

Tell me what my rights are

On the straight and narrow line

I’ll look you in the eyes

You can put your pistol to my temple

March me up against the hood

Because I’m trigger happy, my love

Only you can make me

Abstain from going into reverse again

Trigger happy

Trigger happy

I’m so trigger happy, darlin’

I’m handcuffed to your siren

And I will sing along like Circe

Tailspin with you forever

Until we glide into the acrid dust

To kiss the cinders

From the tracks of our anointed lust