Photo courtesy of ADVrider.com




Footprint Thirty-Six


I used to

love

to go

   to the gym ~


Tone-up the muscle

I had

n' keep

   my body slim ~


Make circles in

the air

with the barbell

   doing curls ~


While glancing

here n' there

at all

   the lovely girls ~


The piped-in music

made it

seem

   like a dance ~


A pumping

up n' down

body strengthening

   romance ~


Bubble muscled

babooooooons

spewed spittle

   with a roar ~


Sweeter things

did isometrics

with

   a one pound oar ~


While I

wandered 'round

curing

   my weary back ~


Once

while lying belly down

upon a horizontal

   rack ~


I turned my head n'

saw beside me

anudder

   miracle of life ~


A sleek She

in tights

with a belly that

   cut like a knife ~


Cut with curving

splendor

thru

    my indifferent strife ~


Made for excellent

inspiration

to get up n' get

   a wife ~


As

she

did

   a toe-raising pump ~


A vertical move

that made

a provocative

   lump ~


Where else

but

in

   my pants ~


Oh boy oh boy

did

my legs

dance!


Upon

a

horizontal

   torture machine ~


Upon

which I romped

like

   some kind of fiend...




Footprint Thirty-Seven


But I am

now

 a skeleton, alas,

   without any balls ~


Too embarrassed

to visit

the

   shopping malls ~


A noseless wonder

atop a pile

of

   clickitty clackitty bone ~


Rattling around in a

half-sunk boat

without

   a telephone ~


Even stumblin' down

that no good road

I started

   to tell you about ~


Was better than this

so lets dwell on that

n' see how

it turned out...




Footprint Thirty-Eight


I had

no water

no water

   had I ~


The two canteens

I

had

   were dry ~


Cool clear H2O

outta

a

      mountain well ~


Woulda made heaven

outta

this road

   to hell ~


This road that

led

to nothin'

   but a dead end ~


With-

out

any

   wind ~


 With-

out

any

   soul ~


Nothin' but dead leaves

lay

in this empty

   dead-end bowl ~


And rattlesnake bones

that yodeled

"now where yuh

gonna go-oh-oh-ohhhhhhh?"


I stood n' stared

at them bones

n' thought

 "Oh no, oh nooooooo!"


And clouds of

gnawing gnats

made it

   plain to seeeeeee ~


This was the

dead end of

death

   for meeeeeee...




          http://www.californiachaparral.com 





Footprint Thirsty-Nine


Needless to say

I had

lost

   the trail ~


Needless to pray

when the hammer pounds

on your

   last coffin nail ~


 Need-

less

to

   try ~


When all you got

left

to do

   is die ~


I began

lookin'

for

   shade ~


Some place

where

I

   could sit and fade ~


Some place

where

I

   could trade ~


This

schmucked-up world

for somethin'

   better made ~


But the crummy clouds

of crummy gnats

were to

   fricking thick ~


All I could do

was cry

like

   a baby chick ~


So my

sorry

tears

   done ran ~


Like

smuggled

 contra-

   band ~


Down

my

ruddy

   face ~


In

this

unholy

   place ~


And

as

they

   trickled down ~


 On-

to

the

   dusty ground ~


I heard

a voice in my

sun

   drenched head ~


A voice

from

somewhere else

   that said ~


With

all kinds

of

   clarity ~


Despite

my

 dis-

   parity ~


"Keep

  walk-

 ing,

    son" ~


Son of a

son of a

son of a

son of a gunnnnnnn...




          Pentecost...




Footprint Forty


Dear

living

giving

   Light ~


Please

talk

to me

   tonight ~


Tell me

I

am

    alright ~


And show me

how

to

   fight ~


This darkness

all

 a-

   round ~


That keeps

 get-

ing

   me down ~


Won't

You

 show

    me ~


How

I

can

   be ~


Peaceful

loving

and

   free ~


Despite

this

 dis-

    harmony ~


 In-

side

and

   out ~


That makes

men

honk

   and shout ~


I do not want to

rape

 the snot-

   ty bitch ~


Who in her car

knocks

 me in-

   to the ditch ~


What must I do

to

walk

   clear ~


Of her

  hate-

ful

  leer?


I don't wanna

break

the bully bones

   of the young buckeroos ~


Who on the job

send me home

with the

   I-wanna-kill-em-all blues ~


What

am

I

   to dooooooo ~


But raise

my hands

up

 to Youuuuuuu?