Been Zen
Posted: September 26th, 2010, 7:13 pm
I have been to maze mountain
of pills, satanic mills and thrill spills
been to the paradise pits not to the Ritz
I seen the psychedelic shack,
and the people that never came back
stayed out of Nam and did no prom
I wanted to be the great poet, and know it
wanted to hold up my revolutionary fist
to rip the guts out of the false mechanical idol
and blow away the neon signs of lemon rinds
wanted to exist in some kind of starry mist
where the language snakes in the spoken kiss
she flung to me out of the cradle Cadillac window
to draw out the dark inky word, show where its been
to hold up its shiny new one like a mint dime
and let the eyes see this land your land before
it was torn up and made into this armed dump
wanted to play the cryin saxophone like
all the night trains from Little Bend
come around again through the station
of constellations and confrontations
with pasts passing through infinite futures
and nothing lasts,when your having a good time
I have been to the rend Bend was born in the Bend end
or some place next to all those Native people places
names, all those wounded skies and knees
and let them see this sacred ground before it was all
dug up, when the trees were cathedrals and leaves
were the great temples of healing and singing wind
but I been to the monster mountain down that roller
coaster, and brother it isn't any joy ride, no teen blast
its just a pile of smoking wreaks in the waste lands
and cars are still drivin to the great big center of it
but the poets have to stand near the entrance and send
of pills, satanic mills and thrill spills
been to the paradise pits not to the Ritz
I seen the psychedelic shack,
and the people that never came back
stayed out of Nam and did no prom
I wanted to be the great poet, and know it
wanted to hold up my revolutionary fist
to rip the guts out of the false mechanical idol
and blow away the neon signs of lemon rinds
wanted to exist in some kind of starry mist
where the language snakes in the spoken kiss
she flung to me out of the cradle Cadillac window
to draw out the dark inky word, show where its been
to hold up its shiny new one like a mint dime
and let the eyes see this land your land before
it was torn up and made into this armed dump
wanted to play the cryin saxophone like
all the night trains from Little Bend
come around again through the station
of constellations and confrontations
with pasts passing through infinite futures
and nothing lasts,when your having a good time
I have been to the rend Bend was born in the Bend end
or some place next to all those Native people places
names, all those wounded skies and knees
and let them see this sacred ground before it was all
dug up, when the trees were cathedrals and leaves
were the great temples of healing and singing wind
but I been to the monster mountain down that roller
coaster, and brother it isn't any joy ride, no teen blast
its just a pile of smoking wreaks in the waste lands
and cars are still drivin to the great big center of it
but the poets have to stand near the entrance and send