Hayden Michael Gray - Poetry

Dirt Going Down

13 dead soldiers
It was only the slip
of a finger.
Is it accidental convenience?
Your haunting has become present tense.


Stack them up knock them down.
Two houses mortared by cards.
Shuffled by clowns.
There are children in these towns.
Running through these towns,
mourning decorated ghost for their pleasure.


Four fathers.
Not even one father.
Horizons have lost their meaning,
in this cold, cold funeral maze.
Slip of fingers, slip of hands.
We are courting progression,
with six bottles of depression.
Copyright 2007 Red Pulp Underground

Echos at 3:22

never ever wake up before noon
you're not missing anything, except the opening
scene of a world
spinning backwards
this is the time to play in the dark
this is the time to stand in your corners,
and listen for an echo to bounce, bounce,
bounce
from a place the cancer is not growing
and the sun isnt showing,
all of this spinning backwards

lets make sure the bullets miss
lets vote with our feet
lets stop choking our necks with ties
and lies are the only thing keeping our necks
warm

well............ the angels said, that jesus said,
that muhammad told god that
bridges make nice umbrellas in the spring
smoking keeps your lips warm in the winter
having funerals for trees in the fall, will most
definitely
make you take your shoes off in the summer

this is the time
to stand in your corners and listen
Red Pulp Underground