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Inbetween Days by A.M.Denning



GIRLS, GIRLS, GIRLS

Anti-social behaviour,
life locked us out, heroic failure.

Rehabilitation,
the rudiments of self expression.

I stand here naked.
I stand here shaking.

I stood here 'once upon a time' -
everything was poetry.

When you loved me


LONELY SEA

there will be no more you and me
and I will drown in a lonely sea

there will be no more laughter or tears
just a dead weight tied to my belly

there will be no more living to be done
because you were my sun that shone

i love you still, wherever you have gone


SUMMER CAULDRON

fire burning through the sky
the air is alight with crystalline sweat
foliage gives off strange vibes
and the people are undressed

looking the other way, of course
that man has only a crown of hair
that woman looks like a horse
and that girl is only half there

gas fumes line the horizon
women stick out their chests
men try not to smell
and try to look their best

a season of summer cauldron
though the rain will return

and friendships be forgotten
during the seasons turn


A NATURAL ONE

Nobody wants to read of love
or relation!

And where are the words in Latin?
Why cannot you be Slovenian?

Where is the angle and the position?
Where is your Iambic precision?

The boy replies, a twinkle in his eye,
'I write for Catherine.'

'Her hair is all I see, deep red and brown,
shining under a sun's caress. Eyes
like sparklers in a full languishing sky.
I make sheep's eyes, unfalteringly.'

'Endearingly clumsy,
I believe she understands.'


STATE OF CONFUSION

Money is kind of funny honey
Money is kind of funky, and I don’t have any

Clothes are well hot baby
Clothes are well hot but my clothes are left to rot

Hair is beautiful babe
Hair is beautiful but mine looks like Bob Dylan’s

Look, see here! I could go out tomorrow
I could go out tomorrow and buy a new shirt!

I could visit the hairdressers and the beauty parlour
I could win the lottery sweetie, I could be a rich man!

I wish you would sing me to sleep.
I would like you to be happy with me

I wish you would count me some sheep
I can do nothing right in your eyes

My eyes are green. Green in color
and everything I’ve seen has led me this way

At least, at least, as of today.


AS SIMPLE AS THAT

a sadness shared is a sadness shared,
it's as simple as that.

you can choose to ignore me, you can
choose - please do.

you can stand before me with your
eyes out-stretched

you can leave and send me
sliding back

it's as simple as that


DISSAPOINTED

it took all that journey to discover what I knew
five minutes after I met you


INTRODUCTION

She has muscles on her arms without moving.
Lumps and muscles that look intimidating.

She saves things.
She collects beads from different necklaces.
Stitches them together.
Creates colourful, eccentric looking bracelets.

She carries people.
She doesn’t have many friends

She frightens people
Toenails that could crack walnuts

She’s never been in love and owns six cats

More sometimes, sometimes less -
the seasons change


CELEBRATE

sleep so attractive now

lay down still
pull the landscape over me

no more lies are spoken and no
more shall my heart fall away

waking seems a foreign holiday


A REAL PERSON

Four people were talking to me at once
Certainly the centre of attention!
Sadly I was merely on-line and not
In some place of social worship

She’s given me a smile and that’s enough
I spoke to her in real life

She sang for me and that’s enough
She made me smile and that’s enough


 SOMEDAYS THE SUN IS REPLACED BY SNOW

Somedays there is rain
Sometimes there is blood
Somedays there are people
Who just aint no good

Somedays the tortoise crawls
And sometimes temperatures raise

Sometimes the anger is enough
And somedays anger is too much

Sometimes aggression is justified
but not in this case

I only said no, I only said no
Somedays the sun is replaced by snow.


'SMUDGE'

The purring is intolerable!
The purring is too loud!
Why can’t you be quiet
When the Casbah is rocked
And a Catfish climbs a tree
And the colourful clothes you wear
Are removed and the firmament
Is rose tinted?

Where are my glasses?
Where is the Cat?

Oh, it’s right here,
Sat besides me and you
And looking more beautiful
Than both to jaundiced eyes

This thing they call sex?
This thing?

I love you dearly, sweet thing.


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The Valentines ( 1996 )
  • Love You ( 1997 )
  • The Impossible Comeback ( 2000 )
  • Inbetween Days ( 2001 )
  • Rainbows ( 2002 )


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