Failing like aliens hanging from the groundResorted to resorts to keep people aroundSunny and stunning falling through the seaDeboned and regrownby shipwrecks, time, and these Red jazz spinning. Oregon cards, pupils flooredThe end and a […]
Author: Chuck Johnson
Okay Seasonally
Occasionally I wear your guyThere is nothing in my eyeLay awake and toss and learnabout the bridges I have burned Like pizza and love and sex and musicBurn good things unintentionallyWhat if I was me […]
Valley Mountain Blues
It started in a jungleTwo pebbles, Valley and MountainIt was innocence full of real dreamsUnknown rock and rollToe taps and sweaters, green lights and fresh airBefore broken smiles and where’s my underwearSingle tree lost in […]
Blind One-Eighty Achü
Did a blink, one-eighty, achooI looked at him and she looked at youHigh school halls and lockered wallsJust closets for dweebs to cry in Dispatching crows to dance on addictionShe looked at him and she […]
Color Harvest
Time sets into DecemberNo rain around this yearLast year the feelings were different Time splits before we rememberThe change this time of yearLast year, it just felt so different I am a storm brought on […]
Just The Air
Getting used to that not aroundLike rhythm fading to just there, a soundThat is in the oceanAnd this fell to the groundThe best, simply makes no sense Did you say thatHeard you say that that’d […]
Syncopated Speed Skid
Hear, talk, and watch a sunsetLittle speakers, a dogLaugh about music, say hey welcome backWe’re best on the same trackLightning in the distance, he always liked this songLater on walk inside, strut around draped innothing […]
Happending
Funny thing knowing what will happenand not what’s happeningI suppose by it’d do it for me,I heard it’d be the one doing itI don’t do that.Weird year makes more sense if that happened Guess I […]
Crawling Water
KeroseneDon’t be meanIgniting bridges you don’t know you needEach bridge heads somewhereAll connecting lives to lives to livesRope and wood, don’ts and shouldsLeft you crawling across a riverHe tries to help and gets thrownTo wolves […]
Nice Resort
Spent my day buying cheesesThis is a nice resortAll vacation and breathingDon’t give a fuck if I stub my toe readingThis is a nice resort Cut myself eating pizzaBut it’s a nice resortCalm vacation, fine […]
How I’m Behind Me
Never made it as a race carI couldn’t cut it as a slow man speedingTired of blinking like a headlightI’m sick of maps without the thrill of reading And so now, I’m behind me And […]
Casino Night
Cold cow shakes up stepsSubtle smile for a cameraThinking maybe milk meOr grind or slaughter me for the tenth timeOr over/under the moonOr nothing happening soon It’s crazy and too lateTwo days ago and earlier […]
Patio Wax pt. 2
A symphony sang through snores from behind“Are you really sleeping? Yes”That was the besst.Alive for the first time in a while before being inWith eyes closed peacefully next to meCandlelit symphonyShe may have been listening, […]
Night Bright, Decembers
‘Member holidays on islands?I do, I’m in the sun hearing LonelyYou’re early, it’s rainin’ where you areHours away, you were asking for sleepin’Same thing happening here, but it’s later Now you go outside and be […]
Patched Eye
Dropped my eyes, sight can’t be foundOnly see the distant sound Lent my ears, hear can’t be foundOnly feeling shaking ground Seems it was sung, made cents, played ChangeSeams bend undone, invisible starting over’s a […]
Mr. Classic’s Pottery
Well. I shook on a runway one morning and that’s when it all warped to changeI’d dreamt of flying in New Orleans on a puddle with skateboards and framesIf years create discographies, those weekends compile […]
Point of You
I’d like to watch a storm with youI do I doYeah.I’ve been missing the moon I’d like some talk and coffee with youI would I wouldNope.I’ve been missing the good No no, yeah yeahWho is? […]
Damn.
Join me, write my life outHelp us shed all force fed doubtThe trident night, it didn’t feel rightI really only wanted the dust in red lightNone of this needs to come undoneMost of this has […]
Patio Wax pt. 1
Reflections from a bench where a new thing startedTangerine wings hummingAcrylic mandolins strumming stirred up smilesBeginning a decade laterI won’t go down, not like thatPeaceful nights and candle waxPatios and both on trackWarming hands and […]
Captain’s Cap
Have you heard?The captain’s backHe found his mindLeft under his cap Have you seen?The captain’s backHe found his eyeRight under his patch He walked inA clock played a song about waterAsking how he knew itSwore […]
FLOWNS.
Pour heart into pagesNever see or hear the light of nightHeart raced brain to stumble before the line Music takes timeLines make rhymesTime unwindsLives No time for creativityThe timeand lifeand lackof timeand and and and […]
Bout A Half Block Down
Blown out twenty two years agoAn answer finally landsIf you go crazySome still call you Superman
1010 in 5 Min
Draw out thinking or overstandI understep and understandtake the sand, see – sing it as the sand is this handBlue sky and the family’s stonedLeave it alone boy, don’t touch your phone I write around […]
My Miss
Her wax still spins in this mindPart of me wishes I mindFirebalm sunsets in sheetsThese two coins still feeleyes tap to this heart’s hip beat Whether reels of past or presenceIt’s a gift of more […]
Boot Stead
It’s a road map road craftTurn around and toe tapBoots and boo tees Golf tee tee shirtBridge a round and see BertGoofs and goo knees And I don’t know what I’m doing or talking aboutSo […]
Pushing Days
Red on a red bus passesTonight beamed what we all neededAs we’s becoming just one of me Lights fade the right wayOffset or not quite making senseLike, bentHighlighting words, the music staysWe sway Three on […]
Yoya Hotbee
Welcome to the land of yo’s and ya’sWhere red is cool and blue is hot Wandering eyes wonder how they got hereWandering, I wonder how I got thereTo the land of yo’s and ya’sWhere things […]
Green Lights and Subtitles
Why race just to faceplant at finish lines?Slow down to turtle speed, it’s more than fineI’ll be the strings dancing at the stationSilver vinyl dials to the right She sings don’t cry over spilt ranch […]
930 Door Jam
Man, the music box has no addressSo I put in the bush company where ladies undressBrown line leads me around and across townBack to dancing, moving, groovingHelping the people get down so I stay up […]
Year Won
Couple cold brews til the pot’s set upGreen juice from a red OKay to keep me goingMedium extra strength boxes scream a face Janet, shine a starWaterwood stretch the leatherCatch a lob and throw a […]
Sunday Morning Pot Thoughts 1
Lost track of time at the old placeElectricity fires up a TVShorter, wider, darker, KingA big ol’ hat, these strings will sing Fight around a dial, a calendar yearWhat’s stopping you is fear my dearStones […]
No No Empanada
A piece of chalk ate an empanadaand since then things have never been the same What about the pies and the light?Caribbean in the desert and the bears? I walked so far inside my mindI […]
Deciphering When Is Meant
A child stomps a caterpillarButterfly ends a manWings, they spread and soar awayBefore they learn to land Sidewalk walk, talking about a ladybugA year of filling timeI said that, I meant that, and loved thatand […]
Drunk and the Punk
Scratch a spider, frozen roastAvocado on your toastShave a head and hold one upRaven coffee, iced first cup Gutter punk train dadOut of place brainiacBasketball bass noteIn your face space goat Dance in a diner […]
Hollow All Findings
Are you a rat?Got a bucket?God bless.Get me out of this mess. K-9 unit? K, fine. Use it.See if they find what I smelled.It’s there, I’ve felt it for days.Keeping me awake.
22 Degree
A moon split in two tonightThe jazz in my mind, it won’t stop singingA moon coasts into todayThe rock in my head, it won’t stop staying What about those few years you forgot?I still remember […]
Different and Together
I saw somebody sing something I wroteMan, I’ve got to get back thereI will write a new songLess of coming undoneMeant to be, different and together At times, I drive and my ears roll passed […]
Spiral Hill
Above a spiral hill lean four benchesSpilling Two pieces alone blends the most meBrings calm, one palm before red and blueBlack waggingLike magic Hip hop. Flip flop. Plant my face in the sea.It’s clear you’re […]
Howling Words
7:25 the trees turn onLit up showing spinePerhaps it’s time you move on Near 7:27 a fountain breathesSoft and slow releaseI blocked out the exit The dogs are barking againGrowlingHowlingDo you remember the words? Around […]
Frozen Joy
Tapped into the jungleTime, hands, talkingFiring me up to prevent fadingLight. Date night.Shape upStand on the stall hide your feet Bring back Papago sunsetsLast night in my dream we flew awayor maybe that was today.Thoughtful […]
Driving Lightning
Smirking eyesA squinted smileCreating lightningLast night He cuts the power to signReminds this city of the sky ElectricityWisdom, wonder, magic. Something in these handsTwo nails softly circle silverCircling, circle, circle conductorsPressing warmth breathingElectricity Smirking eyesA […]
Driven
Bass driven healing drivesSit and move until alive This is in meRoll the musicHold the music upEyes aimed at the skyShitGhost notes sent soaringMake this moment my daySend all worry thataway She is in meTap […]
One Out There
One finger waves “no no”to laughs that won’t let goThree hearts, grateful on a trailfor what tomorrow night entailsFive strapped shoes grunt from the ground,“Sick’s not so bad when you are around.” Little feet towards […]
Roly Poly Blues
She’s been guiding all alongShe’s been singing this songThe breeze that unfurled the lost rollingWhen and where did my mind get so wrong? Rolled past tides and storms, hollow-wall-yell-hellStretched my shell so I’d walk wellSlept […]
Decorative Pillow Talk
A stenographer for my brainto keep up with ideas and laughs and painA typewriter for my thoughtsto press the ink that I forgotAn ocean for my soulwood box waves from the cornerA window to my […]
Symphony Stuff
Sleep between checkered and worn out linesAwake in a flash, just like that, never said a wordThey’re not green beans.You know what I mean?Calculating quarantineCool, I’m going to eat Preach about an odysseyWhile penning one […]
Tinman In The Pigsty
They say it’s once a week that they sit on a pew,so they can’t say what they want to.Bust my buttons, a road of a different colorA couple of tra-la-lasGrab a heart, let’s go And […]
Learned Different
I’ve learned we are fine,just different from the rest.I’ve learned that it’s all goodand that there are different “best”s Different’s differentDifferent’s bestDifferent’s cool, different’s warmDifferent. It’s the best
Circling Electricity
Flipping reasonably categorized cardboardor would it be wax?Alphabetized, I should sayI came across the Lady SoulThat afternoon was everything It’s luggage in the rainHeart beans memories, not insaneAbout one tenth of a thousand stepsand moments […]
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