PUNK
tough
it’s in, it’s out
a twist of lime
a fruit drink inside
a wonder bread
a tornado head
a cold rain
a pouring drain
it’s time to go
inside-out
down and about
red, orange, green and blue
fly-like-colors
howling wind
fly-like-colors
no dust in my teeth
bite my lip
i bite my lip
take you up
towers of lust
desire a must
on top of that temple
steps to the holy one
never take one
a cherry tree
drop yours tonight
love birds in sight
wanted and believed
greys between
living colors
no waisted horrors
smart time
to my chime
it’s a wanted one
a soul of two
a connected pair
its time little frog
webbed feet
duck your head
under counter
it’s time to be a lemon
a grateful sin
a dead pig
drowning meat
no vegetables in the heat
i am in need
for that lovey speed
smoke it up
junk it up
punk it up
fill me up
i am in need
for that lovey speed
deal me a drug
flow me up inside
cover me in white
all over; i wont bite
colors;
they fly like jets
red, white, & blue
skies in russia
skies in america
japan & zealand
guatemala & fruit lands
they fight like army men
warriors of hell
painted faces; portraits of heroes
it’s a shoot
captain, a cigar
rip down the road
a drag mobile
wind turning
dog barking
zoom in
zoom out
it’s about that time
out - and - about
i am in need
for a cold rain
and a pouring drain
it’s time to go
inside-out
down and about
round
round
beach ball play
womyn in suits
men in sun-tan
palm beach springs
and new orleans
lima, I sinka your marina
beauty, no queen, ill split your spline
no more
time to go
split out
colors about
explode
i need some
big bang
fighter plane
above and beyond
no place to go
run in
run out
zoom about
it’s time to become a monument
© 1999 David Greg Harth
97.07.07.23:34:11 @ 31 NYC
99.05.07.16:55:03 @ 1515 NYC
99.05.10.03:37:35 @ 296 NYC
Escape
Taste the divine tears
Feel the thorns that grow inside
Sink your toes into the sand
Relax with lemonade as the sun sets on the bay
Play hide-and-seek with me
Frolic on the beach and between the palms
Jingle in the nude and be jolly in the moonlight
And the cascading shadows over the night ocean
Look at yourself in the mirror
Standing and looking and passionate
Do something different
Runaway and escape
Stay in your stillness
I’m painting your portrait
On my canvas and embracing your image
In my mind of lust
Kissing your navel
The ocean breeze travels across our bodies
Tracing your curves with a purple rose
To escape in the ocean of beauty
© 1999 David Greg Harth
99.05.07.16:36:54 @ nyc usa (1515)
99.05.10.01:20:46 @ nyc usa (296)
I’m laughing at you
I’m laughing at you
As the clock ticks away
Timing going by
Traveling through the space that we bend
And soap up the experience
I’m laughing at you
Because you are blind
And dance alone on the parquet floor
Scented like a purple rose of earthly delight
I’m laughing at you
When the children play on the rusty swing set
On the park bench I wait
And you only pretend in the rain showers
I’m laughing at you
As you giggle in your sleep
And wake up to the sunrise of yesterday
And wonder if he had lied and if I was right
© 1999 David Greg Harth
99.05.07.16:42:19@1515
Tuesday & Wednesday
The sun sets and rises with you everyday
Your beauty is burnt into my memory bank
The bank that gets robbed but you are in the safe
Locked in forever
On 8th avenue way, all the men check me out
Look me up and down
Check out my package and cute face
I can get any one of them
Where are the women that ache my heart?
Where do they hide?
When do they want to ‘pick me up?’
Which avenue do they walk on?
Washington Square park is filled with participants
Useful ones that could have confronted camera artists
And celebrity stars I find on thirty four television stations
Including my nude self in central park
Hey, you, yes you -
Pretty one...
If I tell you to meet me in the park
Where the marble arch is
High noon on my grandmothers sabbath
Would you meet me there?
My heart is knotted
Tied and bolted
To platters passed around from blonde to brunette to red to black
From blue eyes to brown eyes to green eyes
and the grey mystery of my own
I’m coming to New York City
I was born here, there
Post office customers
I’m just a believer with bad credit
Certainty is now still in the concept of a book
That I will never read
So, I guess I don’t know the rules
Maybe you’ll teach, maybe you wont
Maybe I’ll just die in a rocking chair
It’s time to go
Thirst to produce has engulfed my mind
I’ll be inspired by you
Because until I meet you
I won’t be disappointed
Or shot down
Or in an orgasm of truth of my own disbelief
© 1999 David Greg Harth
99.05.05.22:34:00 @ 296 NYC
99.05.06.03:04:23 @ 296 NYC
The Gallery/The Artist
A gallery is there so a tree can get cut down to be made into pulp to be made into newspaper so a journalist can write a column on the gallery white-walled opening in the paper so mothers and fathers can read about the naked wine-drunk opening and so the artists can show work on the clean floor and eat dead birds and dish out secret service blow jobs for an ongoing dispute and so someone developed ink to print on and so children can be offended and old grandma will turn over in her grave and mothers won’t support and people get jealous and art wars raid your mind and so people can buy art to appreciate and or possibly just for the hell of it to make a buck we don’t know we only represent be ourselves do the art be the art conflict the art and so tourists have a place to go and view and so culture can see what we think and where we are going and what we will do in trench coats and postage stamps that say Kill All Artists while cardboard thieves line the streets of Broadway to Tampa tribune miles away and the gallery is there for us to meet greet and massage our lonesome feet and shave ourselves clean of the beauty we once knew and to listen to an arch of McDonalds frenzy and creme filled donuts and smokers cars and blue eyes and money and models and chicas and cock fights and luxury cars and hostess cupcakes or airline stewardesses and mighty mighty let’s go play baseball and hit and hit and hit pull the revolver up the bunny rabbit and the gallery didn’t notice those who didn’t laugh but the gallery is there for the artist for the self to be safe to feel like a groovy a musician a poet and parent a human a gatherer a co- you never know or do we with just make a simple phone call the gallery pays bills makes bills is a bill is a bitch is a boredom is a bore is a whore is a heap is deep is dough is divine is wrong is write is right and real and now and here to stay because we chose to go in to be artists to do what we do best and we took an oath to our heart to be all we can be without the army but in our brain our heart we are ourselves and we are artists.
We are artists.
© 1999 David Greg Harth
99.05.04.20:03:48 @ 1515 NYC
Red Beauty
Rolling thunder passes
Great land of the white one
Pass the magic corn of the earth
To the west of red beauty
Beneath glorious sky
To moon’s daughter
Bleeding hawk intertwines
Among the riching forest
Deep birch, sweet cedar and sturdy oak
Buffalo are roaming to the mighty rivers now
For your beauty I take
And eat your poison and swallow my fire of pride
Share my sacred pipe with your painted face
In these brave summers of thicketed visions
And tongues of stirring ashes
I’ve lost my eagle soaring guide
With pressed hands and clenched fists
My wounded heart pounds as the mountain speaks
With leaves of golden amber
And wild pure water flowing
Chanting of your beauty in passages
Come dance with me in the falling rain
Rain with me
Down promising trails of flames
Singing swallows can be heard
Behind my brothers and sisters
As dawn comes over great brown bear
Your beauty like nothing of this earth
Beating the dirt back to its core
Following the blooming flowers to your footprints
The beauty you shine with
Makes the growing sun and stars fight to reflect upon you
As I imagine my blue eyes upon your breast
The desert becomes hotter as you raise
The holy flames on the land
And take the rainy season to flood lands
Powerful sun beams beat off your beauty
Into the mighty night sky
Showing the overhead night birds a wonder sight
Your beauty shakes the tremendous strong earth
Quite beyond your structure of lust
I sink in the sand to be with you
As your beauty burns and dances like fire
In the minds of myself and my fathers before me
I honor you and give you earth gifts
Silent cuts on palms remind me
The delicate lines of your beauty eyes
Making the smokey signals of my desire
Your beauty quietly escapes the red land
Mounts on top of great blue blankets
And becomes one without me in the darkness
© 1999 David Greg Harth
99.04.28.2:24:31@Earth
Mixed Media Killer
Whites killing blacks
Blacks killing whites
Liposuction fat suckas
Believing in god to rescue
Ain’t no Popeye
gonna save our batch
Think I’ll light a match
Littleton snow falling
Wet rain flower graves
Students balling
Publicity suicide stunt
Making bucks for NBC, CBS, ABC and CNN
Just 2 Shot men
Bomb the black kid
Blaming Manson
Wish I hid
Violence in Kosovo
Violence in Colorado
I’d much rather get lost
In the violence in my own head
Trench coat Mafia
Remembrance of Matthew Sheppard I knew
Psychology Today
Preventing your bloody hue
Interviewing the grieving
For America’s rating
The Boss was born here one evening
John’s little pink houses debating
Sawed-off shot guns
Bleeding bones
Crying tears
Swat teams
Children killing children
Imagine my man
in the mirror
Rebel revolutions
Civil revolutions
Student revolutions
Gothic revolutions
Building wars
Destroying guns
No one’s safe
Laughing killers
Ooooooo...Black clothing
Come to New York City
I’ll show you your black
& hate
& god on riverside
You know?
Silent images = $
Silence = death
© 1999 David Greg Harth
99.04.23.4:46:17@Earth
One Week
On Sunday
I take you to the Metropolitan Museum of Art
We see van Gogh, Degas, and Turner
We get lost together in their masterpieces
Of strokes, dances and light
We surround ourselves in the art around us
To create our own
We explore each room while re-inventing ourselves
On Monday
After a candle-lit dinner
I take you to the Empire State Building
Right to the tippy-top
To view the world
Our New York City
That we conquered together
With shared secrets and passion
On the top in an embrace
We kiss to the stars above and the midnight lights below
On Tuesday
After the wine down your back
I cuddle you in my arms
As we shower together
Feeling silky wet
With suds pouring down
I wash the slippery inches of your body
From butt to thigh to breast to ear
On Wednesday
We skip work
To where the sun shines daily
And birds fly high
Where flowers bloom beneath
Central park is where we escape today
Frolic in the sun on the meadow
Being with you and exploring
Laying upon your lap, you in mine
Together we relax and wonder
On Thursday
The evening is ours
This night is full of sweetness
From the kisses on your lips to your navel
I lick the honey from your mouth and stomach
To strawberries of today
Following your precious eyes
I take the strawberry to every corner of your body
And nibble nibble tonight
On Friday
The warm day brought us to a gathering tight close
With ice in my hand
I glide down your body through your soul
Upon your every pore
From foot upwards on your leg and inner thigh
Above your pubic mound to your strong navel
Upward glance
Upon your breasts and now stiff nipples
Until the ice reaches your neck
The coldness giving you goosebumps all over
To your lips
Ice and now I kiss
And run my fingers through your hair
And down your back
On Saturday
Quiet with the actions
Too many to exist in our time
Ran around here and there
Shared an ice tea on the avenue
Remembering last night and the night before
Everlasting
I let the water fill up the tub
For you
I sprinkle flowers on the water’s edge and surface
Roses, daisies, tulips, sunflowers, carnations, daffodils, irises, lilies
And leaves of green
Cover your warm bath water
And now you can beautify the world
And take a hot bath in flowers
While I wash your back and your hair
And burn candles on the porcelain surroundings
Tonight
© 1999 David Greg Harth
99.04.10.03:27:38 @ 296 NYC
99.04.13.01:32:33 @ 296 NYC
Tired Of Art
I’m tired of art
The lies
The pain
The bullshit
The corporations
The money
The realm
The animals
The courts
The circles
The rich
The poor
The heartbeats
The fakes
The abuse
The sexuality
The performance
I got a phone call
Every little thing is gonna be all right
Now that beauty is in my heart
Even though I realize I’m just dreaming
Perhaps just a wet dream
Or not, I remember grey-haired men
And black-bearded dogs crashing through my window panes
I’m just a piece in the board game
Just pay attention
Watch me grow
Fifteen minutes multiply
We’ll be together
And then I’ll forget you
I love your art
Smakin’ cereal
I’m tired of that art
The art
This art
Their art
Annoyed because you didn’t care
Expressed because who I am, I’m allowed to, I’m permitted
Rejuvenated because of the gallery, the museum, the show, the womyn
In my flame, my heart, my head, my art
Then like a tease in the wind
She comes on to me
Like a tease in the wind
And the night engulfs her, swallows her up
And rapes me of my own dreams
And I’m left with nothing
But my art and I hear Indian music playing
Drum beats
And I see Jesus Christ on the horizon
And I ask him for my forgiveness
For art
Everything for art they tell me
They spend
They erase and take and duplicate and rip-off and cherry-blossom and
virgins and thoughts and tough-guys and homeless and gorgeous and wanna-bes
and anti-Vs and record shops and rainy london gals and new york billies and
downtown billboards and san fran surfers and alaska wives and canadian skies
and concert-goers and builders of pages and destruction stories of my life
come and gone. I still smell her perfume on my wrist.
© 1999 David Greg Harth
99.04.09.21:12:00 @ 296
99.04.10.02:28:00 @ 296
New York City
44
I adore you
I worship you
And I sleep in your dreams
44
Double
Full of life and color
You dance the night away
You go-go
You are a great wrapper
44
Sweet ebony kisses
Wishing you were purple from a 2-way street
Accepting blooms
44
West coast promises
If only you were purple from my town
Accepting cash
44
British accent on a rainy day
If only you were purple dancing in running water
Accepting smooth handful kisses
44
Bermuda sand spreaders
If only you were purple traveling with me
Accepting moonshine down your bare back
44
New York City kind of way
If only you were purple from last night’s dead beat
Accepting my eye wink on the park bench
44
You are a whirlwind
Squeezed tight
And tighter
© 1999 David Greg Harth
99.03.16.17:50:00 @ 8AVE & 43RD ST
99.04.08.06:12:00 @ 296
Restless Pig
Sun-dried tomato
Seltzer wearer
Geek lover
Take it in the rear
Don’t give a little
Pressed up against my face
Heated warrior
Virginia cauliflower
Pea pod
And Santa Monica
I Am America
© 1999 David Greg Harth
99.03.29.01:56:00 @ FLT#116
One Way Out
No one allowed in
Not even barbed wire fetishists
Or concrete expansions
No sexy blue-eyes from the West
Not even loving brothers of art
Or inspirational rebels of Sunday
No flexible IV drugs
Not even spinal taps, SPECT scans, and MRIs
Or doctors from Pennsylvania
No pop artists
Not even previous grocery baggers
Or today’s best interest
No women from the womb
Not even from authors of Mars
Or Vietnam writers and golden makers
No papas from hills and trees
Not even superb bombers
Or home-made cookie makers
No more salty tears
Not even a trace and scent
Or a remainder of my existence.
© 1999 David Greg Harth
99.03.29.01:19:00 @ FLT#116
Price List
wedding dress: $8,000
health insurance: $350
new car: $27,395
gum surgery: $640
friendship: priceless
call-girl: $200
taxi: $8
train ticket: $58
postage stamp: $.33
phone call: $38
project: $500
one pair of blue jeans: $37
box of cereal: $5
vitamins: $12
airline ticket: $740
cliff house: $300,250,000
service provider: $25
on sale: 2 for 1, 95, 99
grievance: now
colored pencil: $2.95
postcard: $1
magazine: $7
unlimited fare metro card: $63
toll: $4
movie ticket: $9
star event: $125
rip-off for the possible: $850
tuxedo rental: $140
sadness: correct
realistic plastic pleasure: $54
concert ticket: $62
pay check: $500
owed: $12,000
art-write-off: $17
donation: $15
music: gabriel
collection estimate: $40,000
sensible guy: $5
base: over a million
rent: $1,600
modeling fee: $60
toy car: $.99
throat drops: $1.59
a piece of me: for rent
drug co-pay: $5
bottled water: $1.25
© 1999 David Greg Harth
99.03.25.01:12:21@296 NYC
Good Samaritan Of New York
Let me introduce myself..
I’m the Good Samaritan of New York
Here is my story...
I walk around these filthy streets
Filled with dirty scum, pimps, hookers, low-lifes, dead beats, tourists,
great masturbators, Wall St yuppies, freaks, killers, rapists, cops, pigs,
kinkos fuckers, druggies, and myself.
I walk around, probably with a sign on my forehead saying,
“I’m a nice person, ask me for directions.”
Of course, people do all the time, maybe because of my smile, or my frown, I
don’t know.
But they ask me, so I tell them, like a song.
People get in my way, walk into me, bump into me.
They say ‘sorry,’
but damn it, I don’t give a shit - just get the hell out of my fuckin’ way!
I have to walk on the streets
Skipping the sidewalk as the tourists take up their time there
Like California beached whales
Sometimes I pass a homeless bum or drug addict stretched across the
sidewalk. Horizontally, blocking my way and intimidating others. Just the
other day it happened - So I yelled at the guy,
“Get The FUCK UP!,” He rolled over and drooled.
But you see, he’s different than the others.
Some bums are lying dead on the curb. Those, if you are a true New Yorker,
you just pass them.
And go on walking to your destination. Let the Times Square Business
Improvement Wanna-Be Cops deal with the dead. Not me, I have to go -
I passed a guy handing out cards to visit a go-go bar strip joint. He was
on the corner by the newspaper machines - looking odd, looking funny. Then
I realized, the mother fucker had his dick out and he was just pissing on
the street corner in broad busy working daylight!!! That god damn fucker!!!
So, I yelled at him as I passed by - “DON’T FUCKIN’ DO THAT!! – THERE’S A
BATHROOM FOR THAT!!”
I was fuckin furious, I’m tired of these assholes pissing all over my
sidewalk - damn it!!! He said something back to me, but my Walkman was on,
so, I didn’t hear the fucker. I should have just whacked him. So I told the
traffic patrol officer about the fucker who was publicly urinating - she
didn’t seem to give a crap - she told me to call the go-go bar and tell
them, then maybe the guy would get fired. Sure. Ticket your cars pig.
And those fucking pissers remind of those spitters. Damn it, if you have to
spit - spit at home or in a tissue or in the garbage can. And don’t fuckin
litter in my city fucker! - There’s a damn garbage can on every corner save
your trash - you live here fucker!
And what’s up with the Budweiser-drinking construction workers who mimic
Asian people who pass them by. Damn it, I should slice their racist throats!
And am I the only good Samaritan here? I throw my trash in the can, piss in
the toilet, spit in a napkin -
Also - how about this, there was a guy on the train, a homeless disturbed man.
I saw him standing in the subway doors next to a young lady sitting. And he
stood there in his own absorbed stench. A smelly fuck. Why - I know, you
ask... Let’s just say, his fly in his pants was open and in his soiled
underpants he praised his erection.
Underneath he went towards his one, you know - and thank goodness he didn’t!! -
But I was prepared - If that bum dare started to stroke away on my subway
car!!--
I would have gotten up and decked the fuckhead!! I just want you to know, I
was ready!
It’s happened before, numerous female friends suffering from the male pig
masturbating on subway cars....
The other day I passed a bum who asked me for change, I said, “No, sorry,
not tonight”
I then went into the deli next door and got myself a sandwich. Kindness
wrapped around me and i bought another sandwich, drink and chips, not for
me. On my way out down the block I gave the sandwich and goodies to the bum
and he smiled with thankful appreciation.
That’s a good bum.
A few weeks later I was uptown at a deli with a friend. We were eating
inside and I noticed a bum outside on the street, begging for change from
people in their cars. So, with the food I had bought for myself I went
outside to offer it to the homeless man. He denied. That fucker! He wanted
dimes and pennies for alcohol and drugs! Damn it! You try to help the
helpless fucks and it’s just not worth my time!!
and what about this, let me tell you...
Here in New York City, people die. They die because butt fucks in cars don’t
let the fire engines and ambulances through. It’s horrible. So, what do I do?
While others sit with their thumbs up their ass?
When a fire engine has to get through traffic, and beeping and screaming
and blowing its horn, and the moron New Jersey fucks and others block the
road and are deaf to the upcoming death in their cars- I stop the oncoming
traffic. Yes, I do - really. I jump out into the avenue, spread out my arms
and stop traffic, sure, some cars and taxis and trucks try to race thru and
run me over, but I stand my ground, and smack the sides of cars that race by me
and finally, I stop traffic. Because if i don’t do it,
no one will, and if no one does, then the stranger across town
dies because of the inconsiderate fucks here on the road.
I save lives every day, do you?
So, I’m The Good Samaritan of New York.
And that is my story.
© 1999 David Greg Harth
99.03.12.17:05:37 @ 1515 New York City
99.03.17.23:24:15 @ 296 New York City
99.03.21.16:32:18 @ 1515 New York City
All Contents are TRUE
Untitled (With Her)
You put me to rest
And you left me in shame
You ask me if it’s getting better
No, it’s not.
I listen to you ringing in my ears
But I don’t do the things you tell me too
I stand to be a rebel and I’m not sure why
What cause what for
Walking great white ways
And reaching my goals
Still, I cry in the middle of the night
Waking up in red nightmares of inappropriate behavior
Inhaling smoking juveniles
And taking temperature-less showers
Day room blues and January air
I’m eating sweet bananas now
You put me to rest
And I left without shame
Seeing you go under
In the hot sunshine
Listening to angels
Writing eulogies
Should have hugged more
Wrote more visited more
Instead, now all is gone
I didn’t even know you
My art hangs on your walls
And new people are lovin’ it
You put me to rest
Now you are in shame
Because you refused to listen
Or accept and spend
You abused what we had and who we were
And never said please or sorry or thankyou
Now you die alone in your own misery
Not having myself or anyone to hold
It’s just you
And me baby
The death parted us
And nothing is left
Sleeping alone
Now these days
It gets colder
And I go to the art fair at Washington Square
I visit Fredrick Douglass Blvd
To get a gun to blow my brains on the floor
Friends tell me how to position the gun
Correctly
Friends lay asleep and wish it was them
Forever
I feed the pigeons
And rise and fall
Because this is my life
And she is ashamed.
© 1999 David Greg Harth
99.03.09.15:11:00@ 1515 NYC
99.03.12.13:17:00@ 1515 NYC
Skip The Smokey Ones
My hair was filled with smoke
Girls’ tits were popping out of tight shirts
Guy bartenders went topless
Feeding hungry boys
Down with tubing devices
Filled with beer
Blue shirt boy
Guzzles down beer
As OPP plays and the Beastie ones too
He drinks it all
And seconds later
He vomits his defeat onto the floor before him
And the bar that fed him
The pipe above smokey land
And the wall
Both covered in ladies’ bras
White, Green, Red, Pink, and Black
I see her across the room
Out of place
She stood
Beautiful, exquisite, wondered why she was here?
Or there?
Or why not here?
The college boys dressed the same
In their flannel shirts
And baseball caps
Working out to impress their mother’s fantasy
Not showing real paths
To women’s hearts
But only decoys of make believe
My hair
My jacket
My shirt
Still stink of their nicotine
And their lies
I approached for a change
Told her what I thought
The bar became quiet
In the loud dark atmosphere
Looking
We kissed
Intensely we exchanged
Our tongues
Intertwine
Uptown New York City
Grasping her young body
She holding mine
Beer on the floor
Hearts kept inside
We left to go elsewhere
To walk
We left the cover shop
The Identity crisis and identifiers
We walked away from it all
And entered the realm
Of neglect
Moses is homeless
With a neon Mets winter cap
New Reebok sneakers and squeaky clean hair
Makes the dreadlocks thicker and the rabbi’s leg hurt
The faggots are homophobic in this car
They aren’t letting go
She kissed me on the lips
The beauty left me there
Masturbating in the car alone
To the image of a magazine
I bought long ago
At the ripe age of thirteen
Thirteen car seats
And all I have left
Is my Eggbert
College boys
College girls
I missed it
I skipped it
To ride with you
And you left me
You bailed
You blew me
You wished me
And now you are gone
© 1999 David Greg Harth
99.02.28.01:15:19 @ Downtown 6 NYC
99.03.01.02:56:12 @ 296 NYC
Blue-Eyed Lost One
If I told you about your blue eyes
How they make the red dirt earth
crumble beneath my feet
And change the courses of mighty rivers
through our fields
How they start fire
on our great powerful sun
Or reveal night-flies
in the dark shadows
How they create whispers
in my aged worked palms
Wanting to cover your ears
from howling wolves from the west
If I told you about your blue eyes
How they capture me
with endless potion song and dream birds
And invade my thoughts
during the gathering hours
How they make scattering wide floods
travel to our salty sea
Or make me reborn
to my child innocence
How they illuminate those forgotten
above your bosom
Making roses blossom
at your beautiful gaze
If I told you about your blue eyes
How they nourish
the bushes and smokey signals
And make our mother nature
become jealous
How they fight for each other
on the buffalo land
Or make strong eagles soar
in the tinted blue sky
How they make the weeping trees
full of laughter
Longing for tears to soak
in the pattern of your deep black robe
If I told you to meet me
Out beside the great white oak in the corn field
If I held your soft forgiven hand
And took on a silent idea
To go where I have not gone before
Would your blues eyes care and be spoken of
To join me with drink and fruit
For a fire burning feast and deep drum beat
For two spirits
Tonight, in the silence?
© 1999 David Greg Harth
99.02.23.02:17:38 @ 296 nyc
Tired Of The News
I’m tired of the wars that go on
The ones that the politicians create
And the ones that the political bullshitters avoid and put aside.
I’m tired of the famine the disease and the disgusted
People of authority,
Not on their knees
But on their fake oak formica-covered pedestals!
I’m tired of that.
It’s time to change
To wage a war
A revolution
I’m tired that an aritst is judged and can’t have a curly moustache
Or decked in denim or black suede
I’m tired for Dublin and Sarajevo and South Africa
I’m tired of the rap of hatred
And the breed of creed
And terrible sloth of people’s minds
The news of the sick, the poor
The suffering that could be stopped
The billions on defense
While children bleed with moist blisters on their skin
And wake up the next morning
To the flies on their sister’s dead back
I’m tired of the snowfalls the rainfalls the sunny days
That never happen to those in prison
For making a statement
For saving Tibet
I’m tired for those who love me
And nurture me
Just go away
And be yourself
Find out who you are,
Then maybe I can love you
The news of political dicks
In intern mouths
Baby shitters
And Priests claiming children shows
Are gay because of the fuckin color purple
The news of Joey and Bobbit
And how stocks rise and fall
For ebay and amazon
Yet we don’t care about the forests
That people burn in South America
To build better luxury fuckin’ homes for Trump
As middle-aged white america
Gambles their savings away
Instead of investing
In the children of our future
The hope, the research, the medicine
I’m tired of ‘in god we trust’ on my earned money
Tears and injustice, is never heard by the wallet
Pain and agony for freedom, are never praised by suits and ties
White flags and definitions are never held and followed
I’m tired of the media news
About being homogenized, waltmartized, and terrorized
The hollywoods and sport thieves
Robbing fans and not contributing
To the ones lying dead to save their self
I’m tired of Amnesty being not a priority
While M-16s and F-16s are of top quality
Tired of the news brought to me
Through cellular, electronic and television waves
While hundreds and millions wait for airlifts of food
I’m tired of make-believes, the gay-bashing, the KKK
And the White powers, the racist beasts and Jerry Springer representing America
I’m tired of the news from Iraq and Kuwait and nothing about the
41 shots fired upon innocence in Harlem
The news of glory for fight
For travels of spent money
Dinero for diabolos
And 40oz bottles being sold in the hood
The news of child molestation
And musicians being censored with parental-warning labels
The artists not being funded and Bill Gates monopolizing
With Leonardo on tour
I’m tired of the news
Created by the evil of men and womyn
Of hangers in back alleys
White and black fountains
And abuse at the job
I’m tired of skull crackings and rapists
Serial killers and unprofessionals
Of those who do not respect
And the us for raping Native Americans
Of their home and culture
I’m tired
Of those who do not dream
I’m tired of the news.
I can’t believe the news.
© 1999 David Greg Harth
99.02.19.14:13:58 @ 1515 NYC
99.02.19.16:38:12 @ 1515 NYC
With inspirations from Jon Karl Holm
Taxi Cab Roses
1,873 UNUSUAL WEDDING RINGS
HERMAN ROTENBERG
How rude can they get
On my red heart Valentine’s day!?
Their business card advertisement
A little bit of nerve
In my taxi cab car
Dead roses line the seats
The floor
The love that turned to hatred
The love that left the open cab door
And the jazz that made it flow from
Cab driver to cab driver
Alone
Lost
Not knowing which way to go
To find the unusual ring
Where to cleanse thyself of the sins
I have committed today
Not realizing the ones, I did not admit
All year
All life
About the big one in Times Square
About the bar ones
The rented ones
The video-taped ones
My love is gone
My love that I had
Its dead as a rose
On this pouring rain
Valentine Card
Soaked with salty tears
And semen
Never afraid to cry
And forget the schools that taught so well
The Fall leaves
Of red, orange, brown, and rust
The bearded men
And a few dogs
It’s not about fertility
About the dead roses
In my taxi
My cab
My New York City
Where is Herman now?
Is he married?
Why not seventy-four?
© 1999 David Greg Harth
99.02.15.03.20:26 @ 9th @ 72nd/57th/42nd/34th/23rd/14th/4th/296 NYC
Count The Tiles
I remember singing the song
Drinking the apple juice
And praying to God
I counted the tiles
And got yelled at for lookin reddish
Devilish under
I said I would fuck em’
And still will for those who do not
Deserve better days
I’ll go down with everyone together
Eating sweet bananas
In day trips
Along sidewalk homes
I’ll take rapid eye movements
And listen to them from Jesus
I’ll offer you a mint
A candy
And get in trouble for using
God-damn deodorant!
Shove your dots
Up your ass
I like dogs now
What do you think about that?
Inject me with the over-ness
And slip on your slip
Together we’ll straddle
The IV post
And we can then discover
How to take a normal one
Count the tiles
And sleep in the white
Because you are mine
And you have read
And I know the code
And you
You do not
You do not
You do not
© 1999 David Greg Harth
99.02.14.19.20:00 @ 296NYC