alone on a beach with a stork-like bird
Posted: August 7th, 2009, 8:27 pm
laying on a deserted beach
i'm feeling half past dead
and the only sound i can hear
is the cawing of a bird who
flies in close to my listless body
and lands not three feet from me
and with eyes barely opened i stare
at this marvel of natural flight
and begin singing a song from my past:
"long black veil" in a Capella -
ten years ago
on a cold, dark night
there was someone killed
'neath the town hall light...
the bird continued on -
there were few at the scene
and they all agree
that the slayer who ran
looked a lot like you!
with his beak pointing straight at me
i wondered if i was actually dead
and this bird was my interpretation
of some kind of angelic entity that
happened to look stork-like, you know,
the same kinda bird that delivers babies?
the bird hopped closer to me and nudged me
and continued singing that song -
the judge said son what is your alibi
if you were with someone else
then you won't have to die
again, the bird nudged me and cawed loudly
so loud that i thought i would lose my hearing
... this bird absolutely demanded I sing with him
so in harmony we both sang the chorus -
the scaffold is high and eternity's near
she stood in the crowd and shed not a tear
but sometimes at night when the cold wind blows
in a long black veil she cries o'er my bones...
tears were beginning to stream from the corners of my eyes
as this damned song brought back memories only a dying man
could ever imagine but the bird wasn't finished and again - nudge
she walks these hills
in a long black veil
she visits my grave
when the night winds wail
nobody knows... nobody sees
nobody knows but me...
at the exact moment the final words were sung
the stork-like bird laid an egg like i've never seen
it was colored like a talavera ceramic from a place
that only a native from there could give a name to
the egg began moving... shuffling left to right, right to left
and then a small crack in that marvelous shell appeared
and it got longer and wider until it split in half and then
out steps myself... i mean it was me... i stepped out of an egg
and i washed the sand from my eyes and looked around...
when i spotted myself lying near death on the beach
a feeling of remorse came over me and i walked over to me
squatted down and whispered to myself "hey... it's okay..."
and then i knew... i knew who i was and why i was here...
i had been reborn on a desolate beach in the middle of nowhere
and i hatched from an egg laid by a stork-like bird who sang
with me a song from my past in sweet harmony after nudging me
and i became so friggin relieved at that moment knowing that
this was all nothing more than a story that i wrote for the hell of it,
but i want the reader to know that "a long black veil" is one song
that i can sing like a motherfucker when i feel it come over me.
for real. damn right.
i'm feeling half past dead
and the only sound i can hear
is the cawing of a bird who
flies in close to my listless body
and lands not three feet from me
and with eyes barely opened i stare
at this marvel of natural flight
and begin singing a song from my past:
"long black veil" in a Capella -
ten years ago
on a cold, dark night
there was someone killed
'neath the town hall light...
the bird continued on -
there were few at the scene
and they all agree
that the slayer who ran
looked a lot like you!
with his beak pointing straight at me
i wondered if i was actually dead
and this bird was my interpretation
of some kind of angelic entity that
happened to look stork-like, you know,
the same kinda bird that delivers babies?
the bird hopped closer to me and nudged me
and continued singing that song -
the judge said son what is your alibi
if you were with someone else
then you won't have to die
again, the bird nudged me and cawed loudly
so loud that i thought i would lose my hearing
... this bird absolutely demanded I sing with him
so in harmony we both sang the chorus -
the scaffold is high and eternity's near
she stood in the crowd and shed not a tear
but sometimes at night when the cold wind blows
in a long black veil she cries o'er my bones...
tears were beginning to stream from the corners of my eyes
as this damned song brought back memories only a dying man
could ever imagine but the bird wasn't finished and again - nudge
she walks these hills
in a long black veil
she visits my grave
when the night winds wail
nobody knows... nobody sees
nobody knows but me...
at the exact moment the final words were sung
the stork-like bird laid an egg like i've never seen
it was colored like a talavera ceramic from a place
that only a native from there could give a name to
the egg began moving... shuffling left to right, right to left
and then a small crack in that marvelous shell appeared
and it got longer and wider until it split in half and then
out steps myself... i mean it was me... i stepped out of an egg
and i washed the sand from my eyes and looked around...
when i spotted myself lying near death on the beach
a feeling of remorse came over me and i walked over to me
squatted down and whispered to myself "hey... it's okay..."
and then i knew... i knew who i was and why i was here...
i had been reborn on a desolate beach in the middle of nowhere
and i hatched from an egg laid by a stork-like bird who sang
with me a song from my past in sweet harmony after nudging me
and i became so friggin relieved at that moment knowing that
this was all nothing more than a story that i wrote for the hell of it,
but i want the reader to know that "a long black veil" is one song
that i can sing like a motherfucker when i feel it come over me.
for real. damn right.
(Sorry, my editor kicks in.