Chet plays the Mercury Lounge
from The Music Rooms
Before the rain
Tore off
some baleful heart
in private pictures
Of sordid songs
beats inside my head
the alley footfalls
& other shadows
quit the sounds
in my cornet
a dreamer’s dream
siren of
spent memories
abandon hotels
notes on that shattered
infinity
lost invitations
lipsticks bleeds
onyx cufflink hurled
dogtags crushed
silver flask too far under the bed
with discarded jacks
lovers again yes
blue smoke
faced away
twin nightmares
promises
night sweats
in whispers
through coma
ostinato in 16th notes
dreamsindreams/ofdreamindreams
Driving red ’55 Alfa
your blonde hair &
silver scarf flowing
around my head
you made me sing ‘Where or When’
you cradle my horn
as sweet as our boy in your arms
you dangle your foot out
your window
dismissing the world/ my toes curl around the gas petal
That sad day becomes nothing
when I pissed you off
dark side of the moon bad
torch song lousy adios bad
You can’t chase down
that scorched hallway
of that empty stage
then escape on lullaby street
hung out
condemned psalms
sexual blue
shadows
seethe
at a fevered pitch
Then he shoots the stars
into that vanquished nirvana
pictures of godless eyes
Of mercury wings
of that skeletal wounded heart
Crouched over burnt notes
on ash, smack, whiskey
honey flowing’
all over the bed
melting my trumpet
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