FLYPAPER DREAMS
By M.S. MORRISON
SONGS
POETRY
PICTURES
HISTORY
EDITORIAL
Better Tomorrow
Sayings
LINKS
I feel A disturbance in the force...
Obscurity lets me take naps in the afternoon...
Live in the moment write for the Ages...
Kiss my Analog ass...Digital world
I get lost at night and find myself dreaming in the morning light
To be a racist against your own race what kind of self hated is that…
When I drink deep dark red wine I see no boundary's of human culture or human kind
Somebody
Somebody takes it
Somebody gives it
Somebody makes it
Somebody lives it
Somebody wants it
Someone rejects it
Somebody stops it
Somebody lets it
Somebody
Somebody
Somebody
go
go
go
M.S.Morrison
One Man
One man wanted peace
one man wanted a seat
one man wanted a leg
one man wanted some feet
one man crawled to freedom
one man walked a mile
one man man made a million
one man saved a child
M.S.Morrison
Cigarettes Taste Better Naked
When your lover shares a puff or two
just for him or her and you
Cigarettes taste better naked
when all is right with god…
and you don’t bring it up
Because you don’t want to be misunderstood
and you don’t want to kill the love
or the the buzz that you are into…
M.S. Morrison
Beauty
When you are looking at beauty
Don’t you know what you are looking at
you are looking at peace
at love
at accidental
perfection
Because beauty is of the moment
and the moment that you realize
that you are looking at beauty
it disappears…
M.S. Morrison
The Greater good
One Trillion for healthcare
One Trillion for banks
One Trillion for the next great Obama Idea
Borrowing tens of thousands of dollars
because you lost your job...priceless
Dont lecture me about the greater good
I have seen both sides of the coin
and one side is just as dirty as the other
Flip the coin and one way or another
you may only destroy yourselves
M.S. Morrison
18 Days
I walked up on the porch
Knocked on the door
Looked up and told him I was there
for the State of Tennessee
He wasn’t too happy
He said he wanted to turn me inside out
or up side down
I knew that all I could do was hold my ground
I said i just need to ask you a question or two about your daughter
She hasn’t been to school in 18 days
and I need to see her to make sure she is okay
and if you don’t mind
I would feel much better
if you would put that gun away
M.S. Morrison
Memories
Where is the banana pudding of my youth
The tingling Cinnamon smell of bare foot dreams
The hot apple pie melting the cold ice cream
M.S. Morrison
We don't want to die
We don't want to die
admit it we don't want to die
we love life and we may have our opinions
but if someone asked us why
we don't want to die...
M.S. Morrison
Nothing We Could Do
I sat on the floor and listened to Vietnam
I was missing a few friends some where out there
They were fighting for me and you
There were voices everywhere from Haiphong to Timbuktu
I listened in on the shortwave to Hanoi Hannah
Listened to the BBC
I laughed and prayed for victory
When it was all over no one said but we knew
My friends weren't comming back and there was nothing we could do
M.S. Morrison
If i expose my life to you then i hope you remember me as more than my Photograph...
Sex Is Not Enough
Stayed up so late that now is morning
Why is sleep so boring
Sometimes even sex is not enough
Why does life have to be so rough
Why does life have to be so rough
That sometimes
Even sex is not enough
M.S. Morrison
To anyone who thinks they see a sign of weakness what makes you think who you
are...
Michael S. Morrison
Things of mercy
Things of mercy
Things of Love
Things from god
far above
M.S. Morrison
What I will Itch
I can only say so much
Without people looking in
but sometimes i talk and they listen in
And you know i am their bitch
So they ask me for what i will itch
M.S.Morrison
Loving Touch
Sometimes people stand behind you so much
that when they are gone you look around you
and miss their loving touch...
M.S. Morrison
I will parade a lot of things by your street
You will look at them as you will...M.S. Morrison
“One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road
do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice
answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.” Lewis Carroll
IF
If the bear went over the mountain
If the chicken crossed the road
If the cow jumped over the moon
Then why won't you kiss this horny little toad
M.S. Morrison
I know why i was getting the wrong answerers to my questions on the internet...
i was goggling it instead of Boogleing it...M.S.Morrison
Where Parker stands
On the patio porch
Trying to ignite
a short fuse
In the Hurricane
of a Blond blowtorch
M.S.Morrison
Autumn Leaves
Blurred browns Reds and Golds
Spiral in the air
Touched by unseen force
Spin with dancing flair
Brittle beauties
Sail around the empty trees
Bending masts
Like brightly painted craft
Captured in the Autumn breeze
M.S. Morrison
Truth
I told the truth but you didn't accept it
It was my truth
Not yours
So you had the right to reject it
But not the right to demean it...
M.S. Morrison
My grandfathers life
Frozen in a photograph
is my grandfathers life
He helped build america
took a wife
She stood by him even in the end
when he died on the roof
nailing the last shingle in
M.S.Morrison
We we ain't dead until we lay down M.S. Morrison
Old Oak Tree
Standing out under the old oak tree
I see the long grey limbs
As I walk under its vast protection
For a hundred years standing here
waiting for us to take up its cause
with patience and grace
The big black ants are busy
Moving food around the wrinkled bark
And the yellowed leaves continue to fall
leaves are crunching under my feet in a symphony
This is where I abide not in some closed off room
Let the daylight be my tomb
I have lived long enough to see
The great beginnings of an old oak tree
M.S. Morrison
Rolled Around
You know we kissed so hard
And we rolled around
And in that truck
Untill we both forgot
Why we went to town...
M.S. Morrison
No One Knows what has been
Or what has been seen
My thoughts tumble into reason
Change in every season until they are done...
M.S. Morrison
A stronger dream
i took a long time to love you
i did not know a thing
i thought we disagreed
didnt under stand what we really need
now late at night when we find the way
that saves our souls
we combine into a stronger dream
M.S.Morrison
Perhaps we will stop cutting off our feeds and start tending to our needs and we will
say how they offend us and they will tell us how we suck...
And so the Constitution was written by Christians who in their infinite wisdom
provided a separation between Church and State...M.S.Morrison
We can change the world in 30 seconds... Friends don't hide Friends...Spread the word
and good luck.
Friends don't hide friends...Good Luck
Please open your news feeds to everyone...Thank You...and Good Luck.
M.S. Morrison
The only way this society is going to grow personally is by opening up its (friends)
news feeds to everyone all the time...good luck.
When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks,
the fault lies in yourself. Tecumseh
When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of
death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live
their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero
going home.Tecumseh
Ringing Of the Bell
Once again the world has changed
Its gotten better so they claim
Still I keep remembering that age old line
Buddy can you spare a dime
I would trade today for yesterday
Cause yesterday is so far away
From all the wrongs right now
I don’t know where the time has gone
But I can hear the ringing of the bell
And see the red on that blue uniform
That saved me from a living hell
A penny for your thoughts
A prayer for the blind
And buddy can you spare a dime…
M.S. Morrison
Acceptance has found nirvana...
Then what is the beauty of being me...M.S. Morrison
You of all should know the beauty of being you...Michael S. Morrison
We stand on the edge of an anarchy of death cults masquerading as religion...
M.S. Morrison
Deeper Than The Soul
As i fall apart physically
i come together psychically
and i dream more
i dream about peace
and a quiet blue lake
that is deeper than the soul...
M.S. Morrison
When my Love of life deepens...
In the morning when i think
that i have the world by the balls
and i remember all my victories
and any defeats seem distant
is when my Love of life deepens...
Michael S. Morrison
The moment we find the reason behind an emotion...the wall we have built is
breached, and the positive memories it has kept from us return, too. That is why it
pays to ask those painful questions. The answers can set you free! :) Kristan Ware
The poet is always the last one to know...M.S. Morrison
100,000 years from now scientists will think that we worshiped street signs.
You can cook a 20 pound turkey with a Hair Dryer if you have enough time...
Halloween
I remember going up to the door and holding my hand out and she put a really small
squishy brain right in the middle of my palm...and smiled
And you wish it were real
What you thought you saw in your lovers eyes
And then a baby smiles as the world goes by
M.S. Morrison 1990
I may shrink to the size of a pea..But I will still be me M.S.Morrison
The President
He always stood
Tall for his neighborhood
Safe and Sound
He had been a Conservative Democrat
And a real good shot at that
He loved the poor
and he was cordial with the rich
and he wasn't too self concious to scratch an itch
He was not a lonely man
His wife always had a smile
He was technologically correct
And his head was properly attached to his neck
And he didn't know the why to the here or how
But he was the President at least for now...
M.S. Morrison
Time Made Me See
I tried to keep out of the way
I didn't want to look at yesterday
But time made me see
That what we were avoiding
Was our destiny
M.S.Morrison
How Do You Keep Love Alive
Maybe with A little hugging
Maybe with a little truth
Maybe when you rollover
late at night
You reach out..
And whisper..
Is that really you...
M.S. Morrison
I am the dog
It does not matter what you feed me
I will resist your attempts to tame me
You may keep me warm
But i am waiting for the world to be destroyed
So that my tribe can once again prove
That we are superior to your fascist groove
M.S. Morrison
My dog Buckley wrote this Poem...He says he is not my dog.
Promised
She said don't ever leave me
because I will stab you in the back
and I promised not to leave her
unless she had a heart attack...
M.S.Morrison
The Fence
When I stand out by the fence
That divides us and look out at the wide vistas
I realize why we all feel so small and so unsure of ourselves
Why we argue with shadows
Why we believe that our thoughts are omnipotent
M.S. Morrison
Because we are human...
End Of the Dream
There was too much money at stake
And an election that never ends
So what is a little thievery among friends
So we giveth and we taketh away
Because when the sun comes up
They will still believe
So now lets get our story straight...
Victory will be declared
Everything will remain the same...
Though their are no Violins
We can hear the beginnings
of a musical scheme
As we all slowly wake up
To the end of the dream
M.S. Morrison
Victory will be declared everything will remain the same...
No Violins
Though their are no Violins
We can hear the beginnings
Of a musical scheme
As we all slowly wake up
To the end of the dream
M.S. Morrison
A song has been sung...
And pet the dogs and remember how much I love Her...
And drink the coffee she brung...
Maybe I do If I set aside the wine...
Sounds like a song but do I have time...
Well my wife says I have to sober up for breakfast
and she is sending the dogs to make sure I do...
M.S. Morrison
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Still You Are Sitting There
You've always known
That I am going to tell you about my life
Whether you like it or not
And still you are sitting there
In that big comfortable chair.
M.S.Morrison
I have always been surrounded by strong women and weak whiskey...
I am having a period somebody call the punctuation police...
And every one is feeling very small so why don't we stay very very tiny...
They Almost Have To Call The Police
Yesterday he was a troubled child
The teachers said
He can do anything he wants to do
The problem was He usually did
And then he grew up and could not be controlled
And did not play well with others
And could not be consoled
He got in fights he could not win
He won and lost and lost again
Did a little jail time
And learned the reason to the rhyme
Got a job in corporate society
Founded a small tribe of his own
Learned that life was full of variety
And that he was a variety of his own
Now he owns a little music store
And helps to keep the peace
But late at night some times he gets very angry
And they almost have to call the police
M.S. Morrison
Still You Are Sitting There
You've always known
That I am going to tell you about my life
Whether you like it or not
And still you are sitting there
In that big comfortable chair.
M.S.Morrison
I am more concerned with everyone than I am with anyone...
but we we didn't lie...
We Didn't Lie...
When they lied they had no concerns
Because it kept them in the room
What they told you was a lie
But we dont hold it against you
We love you and we were fooled too
We admit we weren't the smartest in the room
But we didn't lie...
M. S. Morrison
I Got Up
I got up and hung my head
told everybody that I was dead
but then I took anouther walk
around the block
and started feeling better
and decided not to sin
I decided to stand and not to run
From anything or anyone...
But I didn't do so good on not sinning...
M.S. Morrison
All I Know
Mama dont say how I can be
Me seeing you and you seeing me
She says we were ment to be
But all i know is...
Me seeing you and you seeing me
M.S. Morrison
The poet is always the last one to know...M.S. Morrison
On my worst day I am Better than yesterday... M.S. Morrison
No one takes me seriously as a dog, that is why I remain a dog...M.S. Morrison
People who get angry about what I say make me angry... M.S Morrison
Dogs Barking
Dogs barking in the yard
Dogs you tied up
Barking because you ignored them
Barking because you fed them
Barking because
You did not have the balls to release them
M.S. Morrison
Death is an empty dream...M.S. Morrison
I still have hope for the world..but not because of its leaders.
Man is only faced with controversy of his own making and others
M.S. Morrison
Disappointed
If we are being watched from outer space
then more than likely someone is very disappointed...
M.S. Morrison
Crazy With Time
Oh Lord I get crazy with time
Please won't you talk with me
Got drunk on a river of wine
While trying so hard to be free
My father said life is rough
And you know how rough it can be
So I feel that life would be fine
If you would just talk with me
Crazy with time
Crazy with time
No Lovers to loose
Only one love to find
Lord I am afraid
That I am loosing my mind
Show me the way throw me a line
(cause) Oh Lord I get crazy with time
M.S. Morrison
We Lost Everything
There will be seasons rain or shine
Drifting slowly through our minds
Be still old heart and let those feelings in:
Talk about the hopes we had
Before the painted moon got sad
Before the love birds ceased to sing
Before the government went broke
And we all lost everything
M.S. Morrion
China Moon
Its only afternoon China moon
What have you been waiting for
Sitting out there shinning
through my open door
You know this just can't be
I feel like you've been tracing me
in broken lines across the sky
Where as a child..I lay down
and sometimes cried
And if you weren't there
you came real soon..China moon
There is no aching gloom
in this room.. China moon
Maybe shes not here right now
but you don't have to waste your time
she will be here soon
I know she will...China moon
Okay..well maybe you've been watching me
These last days haven't been so good
But with luck.. and ill knock on wood
I am sure she would come back..If she could
Ive been so tired of this empty room..China Moon
M.S.Morrison
The Flower
The flower that blossomed
Found peace in the mist of morning
Dancing across meadows long forgotten
M.S. Morrison
The Guppy
I used to feel like i was only one guppy
and what can one guppy do
Then i saw in my mind
a sea of millions swimming together
spinning and flashing in the sun light
And I realized that in my guppyness
i had found power... and peace
M.S Morrison
Calling one political line of thought better than than another
is like calling one death better than the other...
M.S. Morrison
Folly
And paying taxes...
Well Except for gambling...
Sex Is the only folly that we are willing to try over and over again...even with few good
results...
M.S. Morrison (Read it Facebook style)
The Ghost
Did you hear me dreaming in your dreams
Scheming in your schemes
Did you pick up the scent
Of dogs on the road
Running thru the night
Did you see me
Running up the stairs
Asking you who cares
Did you close your eyes
When you were telling all those lies
As you were sleeping
But no ones asking you
The where or when
And thats where
All my visions end
M.S. Morrison
When the mind is still
the floor where I sit
is endless space.
-- Muso Soseki
God believes in You...
I once got lost inside of a conundrum for three days...I had to resort to conjecture to
find my way out...M.S. Morrison
You know you can sue anyone you want to in this country...I once sued myself for
loitering.
M.S.Morrison
The selfishness of mankind is only exceeded by its neediness
Which is only exceeded by mankind’s ability to change…
M.S.Morrison
The only thing of any real importance in life is to prepare to die...
M.S. Morrison
death always trumps life... M.S Morrison
I care what you say and the enemy is not you...
But right now you are pissing me off...,
The genius in poetry is found in the compression of thought...
M.S. Morrison
Don't ever put anything out in the front yard unless you are willing to dress it up...
M.S. Morrison
Art Is born in the symmetry of life.. M.S. Morrison
Carl Lambert: You must realize that what is at stake here does not reside in words and
phrases: it is like sparks from struck flint, like the brilliance of flashing lightning.
However you mange to deal with this, you cannot get around losing your body and
life. - Yunmen (864-949)
12 minutes ago
The flint has already been struck Carl and as you know death always trumps life...
M.S Morrison
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Michael S. Morrison Thank you Carl
I became a guppy because behind the glass and the water i see everything in a really
warped way and it amuses me...M.S.Morrison
There is no place for men to hide
We brought it upon ourselves with that macho disguise…M.S.Morrison
I Feel Like The S Just Fell Off My Chest
Its frustrating and its cold
I am 55 years old… only half of my life
I knew some days would be like this
I used to smoke when I got wired
Does any body know what to do
When you feel a little too tied to move on
The sun will come up
But will I be ready for what comes
What was the answer… I think I forgot the question
I am no longer hungry and want to rest
The only thing I know is that I love you
And I feel like the S just fell off my chest
M.S. Morrison
The Diner
There was a time as a child
When I imagined a world upside down
Where down was up and square was round
Now when I get all dressed up
and walk over to the Diner
and I order my eggs and cheese
My desire rises
Maybe for the waitress maybe for the hash browns
Maybe for a long quiet sultry afternoon
Maybe for the cold cold rain pouring down
M.S. Morrison
Does a president who over war presides deserve the Nobel Peace Prize...
Nobel Prize
They went to war thinking they could win
They found the show was bigger than them
Then the president said… and 5 more died
They learned to dodge and weave and hide…
Brave men good men died and died and died
Then the president said and 12 more died
They were walking through the villages handing out food
The people were asking them about their president
and that Nobel prize and if it would keep them all warm
and fed and alive…
M.S.Morrison
Michael S. Morrison come on momma theres another one down and you know we got
to help him or maybe his family cause the government ain't the blue navy and you
know it ain't the military and won't fight but every other enemy...
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Michael S. Morrison The word is soldier and it is him and her...
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Michael S. Morrison Or Her and Him...
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Michael S. Morrison Let's hope they don't die tonight...
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Michael S. Morrison War is a great theory unless people are shooting at you...
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Sometimes When i Think That i Know What i Am Doing
For sometimes when i think that i know what i am doing i am on the wrong road or
going down a one way street and do not know a goal that would satisfy my soul...as if
a soul could be satisfied...
M.S. Morrison
What We Don’t Forget
Much of life is a memory
What we don’t forget
And what we don’t put in the back of our mind
Is usually lost with time
What we don’t forget
What we don’t forget
Isn’t lost yet…
M.S. Morrison
And Did What We Pleased
She told me I wouldn’t be her last
But she said she would be more than happy
To help me make the time pass
So I looked past her loveliness
And she looked past my dreams
And we emptied out our loneliness
And did as we pleased…
M.S. Morrison
Whorehouse
Right now
politics is like a whorehouse
everybody wants to look up your dress
and cop a feel for free…
M.S Morrison
Passing Memory
I wish you were here
To share with me
The sorrow and the fun
I wish you were here
But you are dead
But not to me
I still carry you
In the deep softness
Of my passing memory…
M.S. Morrison
The more I live life the less I am immune to it... M.S.Morrison
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Love Frees The Mind
Love frees the mind
Love frees up time
Maybe your grandmother
Holds your hand
When you are five
Maybe she holds your hand
When she dies
Love frees up time
Love frees the mind
M.S Morrison
TIMES
My mother used to lock us outside
In Florida in the summer
So we could enjoy the sunshine
But we were bored
And started banging on the back screen door
Whining about how hot it was
I am sure we will miss her when she is gone
But back then we were just bored and whining…
M.S.Morrison
Then I Had All The Doors Removed
I once hired a Socialist to work in a Capitalist environment...
I also hired a Capitalist to work in a Socialist environment
They got so confused...
The Capitalist would come to work thru the Socialist door
The Socialist would come to work thru the Capitalist door
I finally fired both of them and hired a 56 year old grandmother from Iowa
who was a sciocapitalist...
Then I had all the doors removed.
M.S. Morrison
I used to think I was a Communist; I even bought myself a manifesto. You might think
it is weird for a Communist to buy a manifesto, but I have found that if you want a
really good manifesto, then it is worth every dollar that you pay for it...you get what
you pay for... especially in a manifesto.
If as Democrats we cannot support dissent, then what can we support...
M.S. Morrison
Conservatives are not all Republicans, but the Left sure wishes we were...
M.S. Morrison
To my Republican friends with whom I have had a beer or two:
Being a Democrat is a genetic disease and to be a conservative (Blue Dog) Democrat
is even a rarer disease; Somewhere along the line of winning a negative lottery where
you cash in the ticket and owe the government a million dollars.
No one likes you, everyone suspects you, and its almost like you used the word
moderate in mixed company, or even worse said you were not so sure about Obama's
politics...
I have said that...And I will stand up to the coming storm because i am a Blue Dog
Democrat...Forever.
The Democrat's complain when the government works and when the government
doesn't work and I am still a Democrat...Confusing isn't it.
M.S. Morrison
Just So We Are Clear About Capitalism
When a woman brings me some entertainment
And i think she needs some baby diapers now
I try to find some thing of value that I can sell
And make money so that when she comes back
And she will... I am still there...
M.S. Morrison
I don't know what to say: maybe it trancends politics or at least equals it...
M.S.Morrison
Without The Blue Dogs
Without the blue dogs
Sniffing around the greenery
No one would know
That the liberals have not figured out
How to pee in the pot...
M.S.Morrison
Dear: Supreme Hypocritical Ignorance...
Go Directly to hell
...M.S. Morrison
i used to dream
i used to dream of something better
i used to dance with myself
i used to put a little money on the shelf
i used to work for the future
i used to get paid
Before the government took over
Back when we used to get privately laid...
Note to the left...("We"... meaning my wife and me.)
M.S.Morrison
Without the Blue dogs sniffing around the greenery
no one would know that the liberals had not figured out how to pee in the pot...
M.S.Morrison
Do you not speak blue dog...
well in this case you might want to learn to speak give a shit...
you do know that we need health care.
We might need to act like we understand the Care in healthcare
So maby we really reach out.
This is not the pretend media thing we have been doing
But walking across the street to the neighbors
Who we claim to despise
And really asking
How we can help to positivily change their lives...
LOVE
I care what you say and the enemy is not you...
But lately you are pissing me off...
Dammit.. every time I turn the other cheek
you find a brand new way to slap it...
but I hope it won't be this way forever
Oh come on baby I didnt mean it...
M.S. Morrison
Then doctor doctor doctor I said
why is the music running thu my head
and why does it remember every word I ever said...
M.S.Morrison
"One monkey don't stop the show"...Gillian Welch
I met Gillian in Centennial park in the 70's...playing her guitar for quarters
It might have been the eighties...
And she might have been playing for dollars...
M.S. Morrison
There are poor losers and poor winners...both end up in the same boat...the one that is
sinking.
The democrats have cheered for failure for 8 years and now they continue to cheer for
the failure of the people who disagree with them. They attempt to use the press to
make them themselves look better; but they have failed and are about to have a failed
presidency if they continue to fail to include those outside of their political comfort
zone. The power of the democratic party has always been inclusion... there are poor
losers and poor winners...both end up in the same boat...the one that is sinking.
Upon The Fire
I live on the island of Merlot
far far away from a long time ago
And when i wake up
If i do i always think of you
and i always say
i wounder what she is doing today
because i am hopelessly broken
and today i have no desire
to put another log
upon that god damn fire
M.S.Morrison
Wipe that smile off their face…for me.
In West Virginia we used to float toy wood boats down the creek
And throw rocks at each other to save our own self respect
We were the ones who would go off to war
For the same reasons
Even if we were told it was a suckers game
Because our red neck grand mothers were so proud of us
And with their eyes would say
go back out there and wipe that smile off their face…for me.
M.S. Morrison
What Will Help Out
What is the crucial answer
What will help us out
What will save America
Without a dought
A little faith
A little kindness
A little hope
A little love
And maybe a little grace
from God above
M.S.Morrison
A Little Faith (And)
I shake my fist at the darkness
And I gather all my friends
And we protect ourselves
And we put a little faith in the future
High upon a shelf
And take care of our children
And have a little faith
M.S. Morrison
Don't wait for something else it's all right in front of you...
M.S.Morrison...and it's all for free...
Love Is More Than A Memory
I never thought that I would be looking for love
Don’t know where I lost it
Did I leave it in my car
Maybe I just misplaced it
It could not have gone far
Saw it yesterday boy it looked so good
I need to find it now so I can feel like I should
Yea love is more than a memory and I need it now
If I can just remember the who, why and how
If I could just see my way clear
find my own way
And love the love I loved yesterday
M.S. Morrison
Politics is like a bath tub ring you wipe it off but it still keeps you company...
M.S. Morrison
Sex is only good between two people willing to make mistakes...M.S. Morrison
Dial 1-800 Mistake...
Sometimes life works fine even when it's broken...M.S.Morrison
If life will just forgive me and you…
If you could see what I see
You would see laughter
You would see peace
You would see the beautiful ugliness
That is the framework of life
You would see the lovers in the park
Steaming up the windows
Trying to wipe that last bit of loneliness away
Turning to each other
Saying with their lips what lovers say
I love you better now than I did yesterday
And we can all stay that way
If life will just forgive me and you…
M.S Morrison
Perfect Truth
If I could come up with a secret formula
For the perfect truth it would be...
One part You...
And one part me...
M.S. Morrison
One more kiss before I go...
Spin The Wheel
No one tells you what to think
So you don’t have anyone to blame
You make your choices
You spin the wheel
And in the end
The results are about the same
M.S. Morrison
To Where I began
There were days that I could fly all by myself
To the moon and back and I was my own hero
And if I needed to love someone
I would start with myself
But now I am as strong as stone
And as lonely as a cold wind
So I am hoping I can get back again
To where I began and smile…
M.S. Morrison
You Are The Best I Will Ever Do
I met up with my future
I met up with my past
Then I realized nothing ever lasts
All I hear is laughter when I decide
To hide what I can’t understand
But do I love you hell yes I do
Why because and even more
I will always live at your door
I will always live at loves door
You are the best I will ever do
M.S. Morrison
To Make Her Mind (mine)
I left her on a street in southern Arizona
And I am sure she took the first truck out
She was a well built girl with bigger dreams
Than my mind could figure out
And I still wish I knew what she was about
But she was my favorite girl at the time
And I would have given everything to make her mine
M.S.Morrison
Life...It's all lies; and the rest of it is lies about lies...
But I am not really sure about that...
Over Time...
Life...It's all lies; and the rest of it is lies about lies...
The more time passes, the more the truth looks like a child's left behind toy...
And if you were wondering...that means you can do anything with the truth, and still
getaway with calling it the truth...Over time
Truth over time...divided by ???
M.S. Morrison
What Does War Cost
It costs everything
It costs more than we can believe
It costs people
Families
Like yours
And their's
There is depravity in war
There is loss
The people involved never recover
War scars the generations who come after
Makes them prisoners
Of the darkness that fell upon their doorstep
M.S. Morrison
"Obama told “60 Minutes” last week that if a health care bill passes, “I own it.” But, if it
fails, the Republicans will own it."
Does Obama Hope the bill fails so he can claim victory?
And then still do nothing.
More political wrangling more social stupidly...
And in the process people are dying...
It's time to see that politics will not solve this problem. No one wins.
This is not a game of chess.
Lets stop going back and forth trying to get the advantage.
There is no advantage.
People are dying and we all know it.
It does take a spine to stand up and take the abuse from both sides.
We must reach beyond politics in order to find a solution.
That is all I am saying.
Don't chew me up God don't spit me out...
M.S. Morrison
The True Revolution is where two people come together and agree...
Why does a focus on the past prevent us from creating a new future...
M.S. Morrison
The true genius is to meld the minds of more compassionate men and to use that to
bend the will of freedoms enemies... M.S Morrison
I have learned one thing: that when I feel most right i am most wrong...
M.S. Morrison
I want to hold up a mirror to society and see myself in it.
But only if i can disrupt the outcome...
M.S. Morrison
What Can We Do
We all need healthcare. If the current administration does not have the political will to
provide it then we will vote for some one else next time; and again and again, until our
mothers and fathers and children and brothers and sisters and neighbors are
covered...Damn the cost. If we cannot take care of ourselves as a nation what can we
do?
And I will add that the cost of insurance should not be shifted to those who work for a
living...
The Poor should be supported under the Medicare system and the standards should
be same as the National Healthcare System that we will develop.
National Healthcare will be about everyone getting the best Healthcare that America
can provide.
I said Damn the cost...Well there is no cost when We are a healthy nation...If we allow
family's to subtract from their tax liability any and every heath care cost including
co-payments for health care then we help them to become more productive.
While we are not going to resolve the discussion here
We must understand that our political power should remain in reserve.
We must be willing to vote for solid plans that have a
reasonable expectation of positive results;
And only support those willing to take on political risks.
Our future is at stake.
If you don't think so wake up and look around you...
Right Direction?
I think we are moving in the right direction on health care if the president and the
congress does what it says it wants to do. We need some policing of insurance
company polices as well as more competition between insurance companies. We
need to create a national health care insurance system instead of the state by state
system we have now that actually reduces competition. We need to eliminate
Preexisting conditions as an excuse for not paying claims and of course there are
many others needs that must be addressed. I now believe that President Obama may
be able to change health care for the better. But no one will be totally satisfied with
the solution. So are the ways of politics...
M.S. Morrison
I remain your dedicated local Blue Dog...
"We cant allow ourselves to be discredited by our own fringe."
William F. Buckley
But sometimes the fringe is to our credit...
M.S.Morrison
I am A daydream Believer
Thank You sleepy jean...
Flow
We are not quick drying cement
We will not dry overnight
We are fluid in our life
Made of water
And we flow with every desire...
M.S. Morrison
Please don't stop me I am Having a moment...
Michael S. Morrison
I wright and I cry...
Michael S. Morrison
For our children...
Our race is black and white and will be resolved in color and light...
M.S. Morrison
If you look into my mind you will see a kaleidoscope of time...
M.S. Morrison
If we aren't people of color then who the hell are we...
M.S. Morrison
I am a double dog dare ya
Circle ya and square ya...
M.S.Morrison
I live where Giants are standing on the shoulders of Giants I live in America
Hard To Let Go...
I met a woman in a topless bar
who said she liked her occupation
and had no excuse
and she definitely
had all the equipment for the abuse
She said she was getting a PhD in sexual science
and could I help her out
Well we did the best I could
and she said I knew you would
and in the end I hope we both were pleased
Then she said will you answer a few questions
about this wonderful psycho sexual disease
She said do you love me and I said no
But I told her there was a moment
that it was hard to let go...
M.S. Morrison
Hard To Let Go...
I met a woman in a topless bar
who said she liked her occupation
and had no excuse
and she definitely
had the equipment for the abuse
She said she was getting a PhD in sexual science
and could I help her out
Well we did the best I could
and she said I knew you would
and in the end I hope we both were pleased
Then she said will you answer a few questions
about this wonderful psycho sexual disease
She said do you love me
and I said no
but I told her there was a moment
When it was hard to let go...
That was hard to let go...
That it was hard to let go...
M.S. Morrison
Hard To Let Go...
I met a woman in a topless bar
who said she liked her occupation
and had no excuse
and she definitely
had the equipment for the abuse
She said she was getting a PhD in sexual science
and could I help her out
Well we did the best I could
and she said I knew you would
and in the end I hope we both were pleased
Then she said will you answer a few questions
about this wonderful psycho sexual disease
She said do you love me
and I said no
but I told her there was a moment
that it was hard to let go...
M.S. Morrison
LOVE
I love so I love I love so I am love
and I love again love again love again love again
So I am Love
And I am left to love love love again…
And if the fucking bastards won’t love
Then I am going to be kicking some Mo Fo loving ass.
M.S. Morrison
Oh Lord
O lord what does it mean
I Have been there a time or two
What can you say
That will make me feel
Whole as a person today...
M.S.Morrison
Say Hello
Say hello to what you are used to
Say goodby to the past
Maybe some one hurt you
But the pain will not last...
M.S Morrison
I GUESS (do without Time)
I guess if I said enough the target would become clear
Then I could fire my complicated arrow and become a genius in you mind
and we could Love each other and take the time to make some plans for the future...
and in the interim life might be kind...
And then we could do without Time.
M.S. Morrison
Going away..Going away..I allways see you the best when I am going away.
But I am Coming back someday... Coming back ...Coming back Someday.
M.S.Morrison
Because we loved him
And in his later years he was constantly passing away
Almost dying as he talked
like there was nothing he could say that would stop the talk
He used to mumble stuff about freedom like he owned it
And he used to mumble stuff about peace
And when we found him dead in his apartment
We felt a kind of release because we loved him
John Lennon 2000 Years Later...
M.S.Morrison
Ranie Afternoon
It’s going to be a rainie afternoon
I hope you are coming home soon
I was so sad when you went away
They should never have convicted you
Just because you fired three shots
When one bullet would do
M.S.Morrison
Lost Goverment Weekend
They put us all in golden clothing and act like we is the sacrificial lamb
but it is our future and all we see is a mobile home and a lost government weekend...
M.S. Morrison
Took Me With A Smile
I once was troubled
I was sad
my dog was lonely for a smile
And then a neighbor Came by
And we talked for quite a while
And I gave the dog a bone
And she said I like you and I always have
So will you be with me a while
Then she took me with a smile
M.S.Morrison
Mr. Carter:
You lived in a world of black and white
But all the shades of grey are seeping in
Would you hold us prisoner now
To what the past will bring
We know what is coming because it is all ready here
There is a racist in the doorway
but the color is not clear
M.S. Morrison
Someday we will all be laughing on the Champs-Elysees.
M.S. Morrison
Those who who constantly stir up shit will will eventually live in it...
M.S. Morrison
The Generations Who Trusted Me
In the fading light of what I thought would be
I am lost and don’t know where to go
My people look to me to keep them safe and warm
And I will do the best that I can And I will win
but I need even my enemies now
To save the generations who trusted me
M.S. Morrison
I am from West Virginia by way of Long Beach New York by way of West Palm Beach
Florida but spent 29 years right here.
My degree in social work does not qualify me as a hater of the lower classes
My mother and father were poor as church mice when they moved to New York City
to get a college education.
We are the result of the American dream and only wish for others to have the
opportunity to follow.
But I will Say this; I have run a business for 16 years.
I write paychecks, pay taxes, and try to stay in business on a daily basis.
I don't believe in spending money that you don't have.
I don't believe in writing checks your butt can't cash.
YOU USED TO BE MINE
I USED TO BE BEAUTIFUL
A LONG TIME AGO
I WAS TO EARLY FOR THE FEATURE
TO LATE FOR THE SHOW
EVERYTHING WAS WONDERFULL
IN THAT PLACE AND TIME
I USED TO BE BEAUTIFUL
YOU USED TO BE MINE…
M.S. MORRISON
Don’t Wait
Don’t wait for life to get better
Make it better and improve it
Don’t wait to enjoy life
Enjoy life now
Don’t wait to feel better
Take a walk in a beautiful place
Eat what makes you feel good
Do what makes you feel good
Don’t wait for a better future
Don’t wait for forgiveness
Don’t wait for more time
Don’t wait to enjoy life
M.S Morrison
I PUT ALL MY MEMORIES IN ONE POT... THE BLUE ONE WITH THE WHITE ENAMEL
INTERIOR... M.S. MORRISON
Before You Cleared The Chute
When I met you
You took me back
Saw you later with the pack
They tried to cut you from the heard
Never saw you after that
You always were a gentleman
Even if you were a her
With a fine line
Such a little girl
And a woman to boot
You were on the bucking bull
Before you cleared the chute
M.S. Morrison
Tell Me Why
You want to read my mind
Tell me why
Tell me why
You want to love me
Tell me why
Tell me why
Now you want to leave me
Because I make you cry
Please tell me why
Tell me why
Tell me why
Tell me whyyyyyyyyy…
Oh God tell me why
M.S. Morrison
Sometimes
Some times you change you’re mind
Because you found a wish from the wishing well
I’ve always done what works
Mostly what works for me
But I can’t help worrying about the children and the mothers to be
Yea sometimes you change your mind
And for extra measure
Maybe you change the times
M.S. Morrison
In The Trees
In the trees there is a song
Long and forlorn
There is a song
In the dark snow
Where you go to die
There is a dark song
That you sing till the light is gone
Till the night is gone
And you die
M.S. Morrison
Firing an arrow at 200 mph through an apple on your lovers head is a lot like sex... isn't
it.
Of My Life
When I am standing
Yea Yea Yea
When I am standing
All Alone
So far from Home
In the great unknown
Of my life
M.S. Morrison
On The Sly
When I looked out on my patio on the fourteenth floor
At the smoking smog from the night before
And saw my girlfriend out of the corner of my eye
Giving the bellman a fifty on the sly
I stood up and I said Id rather be you’re junkie than end up dead
Id rather be you’re junkie
Id rather be you’re junkie
Id rather be your cash for clunkers clunkie
Than end up dead
M.S. Morrison
This Is America
If there were not Blacks and Whites
There would be lights and darks
We are all people of color
Blues and greens
Democrats and Republicans
Big and Tall
Winner takes all
This is America
M.S. Morrison
Last Music Store
I’ve been living down at the last music store
A place that could have been less
but it could have been more
Waiting for the day when the music dies
And we walk away from those stolen lies
Do you care if I write a song
And will you help me sing it all day long
I’ve been living down at the last music store
And I am lonely and I don’t want to cry alone anymore
M.S.Morrison
We Believe
Some times we believe
In what we can not conceive
Holy Mothers marching before us
Holy Mothers moving on
Holy Mothers shaking their fingers
Quietly saying this day is done…
M.S. Morrison
Heaven Sent
You say you’ve found a new religion
and you're preaching the gospel now
You want everyone to do the right thing
But they just don’t know how
You know its so logical
And because the answer is clear
It makes you want to jump behind the wheel
and steer,steer,steer
Why arent the sinners listening
Why don’t they repent
Why don’t they know your gift is heaven sent
M.S. Morrison
The Smart President
Yea everyone was lying all the people that disagreed
They only thought the wrong way
and were lost in their certainty
They would not listen to the smart president
Who could read their pea brain minds
Because his wisdom was heaven sent
And he memorized all his lines and on the TV he looked good
And he didn’t understand why he was so misunderstood
M.S. Morrison
Van Jones...Van Morrison... Chevy Van...wow everything is connected...
M.S. Morrison
Even a great idea that helps a few can become oppressive when made into a public policy...
M.S. Morrison
What is an opinion except a judgment...
M.S. Morrison
Must we now have to pass a truth checkpoint every time we have an opinion
M.S. Morrison
Perhaps the educated thing to do is to jealousy protect free speech as suspect as it is to us all...
M.S. Morrison
Perhaps we should distrust rashness, zealotry, fury and political enthusiasm.
And we should remember that we are all people of color.
M.S. Morrison
What happens when a minority has a vested interest
in maintaing the idea of inequality...
We Will Make It
We live alone in this little house of stone
In a neighborhood where no one comes to see us
On a pension check so sparse that no one really cares but we will make it
We turned old and grey and the kids they moved away
They sometimes call to see how we are doing
Well I say we are doing fine our kids they treat us kind
And when they ask I tell them we will make it
We will make it
We will make it
We will make it
M.S. Morrison
Jon Stewart Does not mow his lawn and lives in a mansion
So we all know how he feels our pain
He feels our pain at a distance...
M.S. Morrison
Can We Be A Conservative Democrat
Can we be Conservative and still take care of the environment
Can we be Conservative and still provide great health care for our citizens
Can we be Conservative and still make sure everyone has a voice in our government
Can we be conservative and vigilant about freedom
Can we be conservative and still be a Democrat
I Know we can…
M.S. Morrison
It's a hard thing to do to move from trying to win the discussion to just trying to
understand.
M.S. Morrison
So Much For Sin
Its not often I don’t know what to say
I have always had a voice
And God knows
My Grandmother worried
That I would not fit in
So much for God
So much for sin
M.S Morrison
Why was I there
When there was a bad decision
Why did I have to call the police
Diagnose a terminal disease
Save a child with just one arm
Protect an entire country from harm
Why was I there
The only thing I remember
is what my grandfather said
You better make a decision
before everyone ends up dead
M.S.Morrison
Nobody’s Business
Well its nobody’s business
nobody’s business
nobody’s business
But mine
I pay rent
So I have the time
I live here
and make the rules
So you can grow up with love
Thank the lord above
No matter what
I will keep trying
So that it’s nobody’s business
nobody’s business
But mine
M.S.Morrison
When I was a social worker I met and tried to understand these militant parents who
thought I was trying to change them and I found that the more I gave up the better we
got along...
When We Were Young
When we were young we danced all night
Drank champagne in the morning light
We went out looking for beauty and never felt pain
When we were young there was no defeat
We won every game
When we were young
When we were young
When we were young
M.S. Morrison
Its Real Cold Out There
This morning I was thinking as I some times do
Thought about the poor people and what we could do
Thought about the rich and I though about Jesus
Now I don’t really want to bring this up
But I really don’t think Jesus changed any of us except for a few
Yea were still the same and it’s the same old game
Me and you talking about what we will do to save us
And as we walk down any street
we see the haves and the have not’s
and the wind blows cold on our back
And I ask what would Jesus do
And I think he would say cover up
Cause its real cold out there…
M.S. Morrison
I believe in a practical Jesus who is a good friend of the Dali lama...
y'all are welcome to the church of the open mind... we've already paid our dues.
Free Will
Humankind pushed about by the material winds
Sails on a great sea of common consciousness
Holding the rudder of infinite possibility
M.S Morrison
Infinite Rain
The circle is constantly returning
From whence it came
Playing in the infinite rain
Where theory becomes wet
M.S. Morrison
Angry Minority
Now we get to become an angry
Well armed minority
that gets into everybody’s face
I just can’t wait…
M.S. Morrison
Framed in my distant dream
A pink cloud in the evening sky
Made me feel you were near
Drifting against the robins egg blue
Framed by the darkened maples
I hold the moment close in my mind
Feeling warm and good
Knowing that you are near
Feeling your touch on my arm
Feeling the warm breeze of your charm
I closed my eyes and wished you were here
Recalling the dappled green of yesteryear
Recalling the fading scene
Framed in my distant dream
M.S.Morrison
Standing Stick
Black on black
White on white
The gray card
Falls in between
Shadows cast
Across stones
With daylight
Never broken
Standing stick
In the river
Shadows
Circle
Never
Stopping
M.S. Morrison
South America
Were all going to South America
Yea we are leaving town
Were not moving up
Were moving down
We are moving south of the border
To a quieter place
And what is to come
Were moving out
We don’t want to go
Sailing for A New Earth
And a better place to live
Were all going to South America
M.S. Morrison
What Do I Do
I’ve got doubts ringing in my head
I don’t believe what the doctor said
I am lost and cold and I may be dead in a week or two
What do I do God
What do I do
I am a lover and I am a friend
What do I do when it all ends
Tell me God what do I do…
M.S. Morrison
Heaven is found where life is but a dream
M.S Morrison
So Lonely For Bridges
Who Built the wall between us
Seven feet thick
We mixed the mortar
Quick drying cement
Who laid the first stone
Calculated the distance
We did in equal measure
Now we are so safe
So lonely for bridges
M.S. Morrison
Guns Of Freedom
As I wait in the dawns early light
I can hear the guns of freedom
They are protecting all Americans
For the hopes we have for the future
So that we may live a better life tomorrow
M.S.Morrison
Tonight
I am alone tonight
I am alone tonight
And everything’s right
everything’s right
everything’s right
Tonight
M.S. Morrison
We Were Only Dreaming
London Bridges falling down
The train will take you round
To a single room
On the other side of town
I wrote this tune
While you were softly sleeping
Along the crowded streets
Where we will one day meet
On an empty bus just the two of us
We will be there
The red sun slowly bleeding
And if one brick should fall
If one of us should hit the wall
We both will say
That we were only dreaming
M.S. Morrison
I can hear the dog barking
You came home
To make my misery
Knowing how I cried
Banging doors in the kitchen
Enough to wake me from my dreams
Where I was happy
I can still hear the dog barking
Out beside your car
With the dented fender
M.S Morrison
Mary
They took the Christmas decorations down today
Put baby Jesus away and some wise men
There used to be an old lady
Sleeping in the plastic straw
Hoping to be saved
Her name was Mary
This muddy spot once her home is now her grave
And is filling up with snow
They tore down the stable and took the painted donkey away
Now Mary has somewhere else to go
No longer tormented by the cold
Another place to stay…
M.S. Morrison
Too Much Light
Too much light reveals nothing
No darkness
Or shadow
Blackness it’s own image
Never clearer than tomorrows wishing
M.S. Morrison
Nasty Stains
Woman smiles on TV screen
What once so dirty now so clean
Blue soap powder killing germs
Removing stains from fishing worms
Little children with plastic guns
With their little wars to run
The bad guys always look so mean
The good guys how they stay so clean
As they make their hit and run
Faces on the nightly news
Dirty kids who have no shoes
All their guns have Russian names
Making for some nasty stains
M.S. Morrison
I wrote this poem in the mid eighties...nothing has changed
Under The Sink
“Its under the sink dear !”
His hand reaching for the drain cleaner
Brushes the warm matted fur
Of a Norwegian sea rat
Dead drunk on dish-washing liquid
Whose ship sailed three days ago…
M.S. Morrison
Life
Where is the ritual
The tribal creed
Uttered in secret tongues
Where is the secret oath of loyalty
Sealed in crimson blood
Bring me a skinny chicken
Flapping its snowy wings
To save its life
Not some Chicken McNugget
M.S. Morrison
Before My Demise
I am looking for the lines on my face
The overhang in the eyes
The whitening and the ruddiness of the cheeks
All Irish traits of old age
I hope that I can welcome them
But not soon
Not soon.. not right now
I have bigger fish to fry
Towering dreams to build
Kingdoms to rule and unite
Before my demise
M.S.Morrison
Edward
Edward was left with a great legacy
He almost squandered it
But he knew that he must try harder
He did the unpopular and the other things
Became the voice of the poor and the sick
Edward in the end was what we wish we all could be
M.S. Morrison
Weeping sky
Meets roofline
Sharp black smoke
Rising up
With red sun dreaming
M.S. Morrison
The page so boldly…
I examined life
The pages were torn
I turned the leaves
By the ragged edges
The ink was smeared
By the tears of others
Who could not find
A comforting passage
Some words were clear
Others broken and without meaning
I turned the pages and wept
The last yellowed page was blank before me
I laughed at the tiny ant that walked across
the page so boldly…
M.S. Morrison
Hey Blondie
Hey Blondie you were holy every Sunday
But you’re dress was soiled by Monday
As they watched you play by play
Hey Blondie you gave them what they asked for
But you always tried to be more
As you wiped the tears away
You glittered in the light
Made your dreams dance in the night
But you didn’t want to be loved that way
Oh Blondie…
You knew the pieces didn’t fit
But your body wouldn’t quit
So we watched you as your life slipped away
You were a sacrificial lamb to the cravings of every man
The victim of a dream that ran away
Oh Blondie…
The Marilyn you died for was the prisoner of a golden door
With only one escape
Hey Blondie…
M.S. Morrison
Michael S. Morrison: a work in progress
Born in 1954 in a small river town in Montgomery West Virginia to a teacher and a
nurse, Michael soon moved to New York City and then to Long Beach Long Island,
New York, where his love of the sea began.
He spent summers at Hawks Nest Dam in West Virginia and also in the flatlands of
South Carolina and began his personal education in southern culture there at the age
of six.
When the family moved again to Fort Pierce Florida and then to West Palm Beach
Florida he became bonded with the salt water. Michael began his poetry at the age of
twelve.
Michael was involved in a catastrophic motorcycle accident in 1971, which left him
paralyzed from the waist down. After spending two years in rehabilitation he walked
out and went home.
He is still partially paralyzed and walks though force of will. (well on a daily basis its
not that dramatic)
Married at Nineteen, divorced at 27, he moved to Murfreesboro Tennessee and
entered Middle Tennessee State University where he received a degree in Social
Work.
After one year as a state social worker, he became a manager for the Walden book
company and then opened his own business in 1993. Married to a dedicated southern
girl from small town Tennessee, Michael is the president of Digital Planet a new and
used media store in Murfreesboro Tennessee.
A Blue (Double) dog Democrat; he is currently reviving his poetry and irritating his
friends and enemies.
The Horrors Of Public Health Care (I am already dead)
He pushes the call button but nobody is there
To save the older patient laying next to him
He is saying if only the public knew
The horrors of public health care
He laid there forever watching the nightly news
They were talking about the money they saved
Not talking about the lives they lose
And the man on TV said its better
And the man on TV said its good
And the man on the TV talked just like he should
Then in that dirty government hospital room
He pulled out the rusty IV and got out of his bed
He stood naked before God
Held up his one finger salute
And screamed I am already dead…
M.S. Morrison
I am ok with my weaknesses it's my strengths that I am worried about...
The Incumbent party
It’s so simple when you know what the truth is
Like pulling the trigger on a long gun
And after a lot of thought and much research
We have determined that we are right and you are wrong
Sincerely, The Incumbent Party
We do not follow a straight line we follow the idea of a straight line
M.S. Morrison
LAWS OF SLIPPAGE
1. In order for a system to function it must maintain an undetermined amount of
slippage
2. Slippage cannot be created it can only be maintained
3.Slippage exists to balance the inefficiencies of a system
4. Slippage occurs in the microcosms of a system to the systems benefit
5. Slippage extends the useful lifetime of a system
6.Slippage is what Slippage does
Smile
I get lost in your dark arching eyebrows
Then I smile and become content
Listening to whatever you want to talk about
Listening to you speak what I think
Forgetting what you don’t want me to remember
M.S. Morrison
A Rose For Jesus
When you move the Jell-O shifts in my bowl
Gravity pulls upward… my hair parts
Just like the Red Sea did
In that book that gathers more dust than any other
Words for better people than me
You move and I believe
Hands folded at the table
Dear Jesus:
I will say my prayers from now on until Tuesday
Please pass no judgment until then
P.S. The man on the news called it an earthquake
But we know better don’t we
M.S. Morrison
A Peaceful Solution
He died somewhere today
His face flashed on the evening news
From half a world away
And everyone was taking about a peaceful solution
And everyone was waiting for the music to begin
Then the Star Spangled Banner echoed in…
And the first pitch was thrown
And his face flashed somewhere else again
M.S. Morrison
Antique Satin Robe
Colors running in my window
Melting crayons on the stove
Cooking up a blank white mixture
In my antique satin robe
There are feelings without texture
Like polished crystal smooth and clear
Like the vision of a lover
Never far away or near
There’s a coldness in the kitchen
That illuminates the soul
Turning colors into crystal
When there’s nowhere else to go
All the moments lost in mixture
Like the colors on the stove
When yellowed time becomes a fixture
On my antique satin robe…
M.S. Morrison
In The Name Of Love
In the name of love with a promise made
That they would always be faithful to the end
In the name of love a new life began in the name of love
As the years sweep by we turn the page
Find the places where their mistakes were made
In the name of love there is a price that’s paid in the name of love
In the name of love they got old and grey
They are together now because they stayed that way
In the name of love with a promise saved
In the name of love. In the name of love
M.S. Morrison
Our own decision
At best we see life in small snippets
We don’t always understand what we see
But we want to see more and more and more
Because this is no time for inhibitions
We are animals who have the gift of language
We know how to attract others by our movement
We know how to give life and we know how to kill
Our ideas about conservation are somewhat unique in our history
When we seek to save biological legacies from destruction we transcend what is
human
We look beyond today and even beyond tomorrow thru the window of our souls
Trying to save ourselves spiritually by saving the biological content of earth
What tomorrow brings is our own decision
M.S. Morrison
Destiny Of Chance
On Peg legs Pirates dance
Spinning circles round a destiny of chance
She loves me loves me not
They fire their guns in the air
With targets never clear
They sail around
Do pirates really care
To ever settle down
In houses sharp and square
With peace forever near
or worship in a building with a mast like spire
Holding hands to utter Holy sounds with choir
Not as long as their world is spinning round
M.S. Morrison
Listen closely to what your enemies say about you and fire your your arrow straight
and true.
M.S. Morrison
Eyes So Wild
Long ago when I was a child
I used to look in the mirror
And smile with my eyes so wild
Some times when no ones around
I look in the mirror again
Then in comes the child
With his eyes so wild
He’s my child now
M.S. Morrison
One Mans Truth Is Another Mans Lie... M.S. Morrison
The Truth About The Truth
Do you know what the truth is
You write about it
You talk about it
But you don’t know what it is
And if you do
Tell me the truth
Then tell me the truth about the truth
M.S. Morrison
Nobody Knows Me
Nobody knows me right now …
Nobody knows me right now …
If I get famous promise not to have a cow
Cause nobody knows me
Nobody knows me
When we went downtown I met a girl who thought that she knows me
but I told her no one knows me right now
No nobody knows me
Nobody knows me
Nobody knows me
Right now…
M.S. Morrison
Because of what he promised
He ran against the mayor on a platform of change
He won by a landslide now he sits in city hall
At his first city meeting there was an unruly crowd
Because of what he promised you know the change and all
It seems what everyone wanted was different in their minds
What would save one would might cause the other pain
So he had them all arrested and he put them all in jail
Then he called up the governor to file a complaint:
He said you just cant please them all no matter what you say
After a short silence he said governor are you there?
The governor said you got to be careful with peoples lives
and be careful what you promise them
they are sons and daughters of husbands and wives
and significant others young and old
Forget about your political designs and do what works
So he let them all out of jail and sent them all home
He had a new meeting down at city hall
And he let every body talk and he listened to them all
And listened and did what he could do
And became more careful about what he promised them
But they were all still angry about the jail time
M.S. Morrison
The story is not over yet...
AND I WILL DEFEND MYSELF
If you cross me once I will probably ignore it
maybe even twice if you are lucky
But if you insist we will go to war
and my Cherokee and Apache blood will boil together
And you will loose
…it is not because I am never wrong
It is because my spirit has been here for over a thousand years
and I will defend myself
M.S. Morrison
That 1992
He almost bought a car
But the deal fell through
It was that clunker thing
The government paid more
But He couldn’t pay enough
For that 1992
More to come…
M.S. Morrison
They Called Themselves Americans
There was an angry mob and they would not listen
They would not sit down before the kings men
They were dangerous revolutionaries
They called themselves Americans
M.S. Morrison
My Sisters and my Brothers stand with me for the freedom which no one gives and is
only gained through struggle and enjoyed in peace... M.S. Morrison
I AM A NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN...
I come from surf culture: if you understand it you understand me…
Life should be naturally difficult...
Good Poetry asks many more questions than it answers...
M.S. Morrison
I have a liberal side and a conservative side at war with each other...soon both will win
M.S. Morrison
When he could afford a tree
He burned a log in the fireplace
and thought about those green house gasses
Then he looked at the children smiling and warm
And he knew that when he got a new job
and got the gas turned on
He would plant a tree in the back yard
When he could afford a tree…
M.S. Morrison
Paper Flowers
On my way to freedom
When I thought I had it made
I forgot to smell the flowers
Lost their scent along the way
Now I miss the sweet gardenias
And the pecan trees outside
My toes ach for the wet sand
With the water running by
Now life moves a little slower
On a Sunday afternoon
I got what I went after
Paper flowers in the room
There’s a pretty senorita
To ask me if I feel alright
A nurse who rustles softly
As she turns out all the lights
M.S. Morrison
The Doll
Wrapped in blue cellophane
Ordered through the Daily News
In a printed dress so plain
With golden hair and white plastic shoes
M.S. Morrison
Plumb
Plumb told you it’s leaves lying in the snow
By a mountain standing wider than the clouds
M.S. Morrison
On His Pale White Cheeks
Love like a Pearl handled gun
Slips from her hand..
A cold hearted one
Lipstick on his pale white cheeks
M.S. Morrison
Making Way
Standing near ashore
Sails ascending
There is a dank soakend cellar
Spray chasing after the mast
From such feeble beginnings
Come small matters bumping into the grey
While we are all making way
M.S. Morrison
You Can’t Take My Love Away
Do you know why I am here
Will you listen to all the words
I’ve got some thing for you
But you don’t understand
I am a solid man
and you can’t take my love away
M.S.Morrison
As A Child
As a child I learned my lines so well
I learned how.. not what to be
They lied but I believed…
Now I am not so sure I believed at all
Or that they meant to lie
About what they learned as a child
M.S. Morrison
House Of Ginger
The coolness of running water
Dripping off the roof
My house made of ginger
You take a bite of melting sugar
Rain is shaking out the sweet crystals so long bound
M.S. Morrison
Lips Dripping
Lips dripping she kissed him
Then took to the streets in her red dress
Flying thru the deep darkness
Faint white shadows dancing
M.S. Morrison
Maybe
Maybe I dreamed to hard last night
Maybe I stood too long in the pale moon light
Looking out the same cracked window that haunts me sometimes
M.S. Morrison
Walking
America has been mugged…again
People with a political party that begins with D
Promised the American people a ride
They said they would take us where we needed to go
Then they took all our money and left us standing along side the road
The party of the R has betrayed us too
Its time to begin walking
Walking by the millions to ask for real freedom
M.S. Morrison
You Got What You found
My Mama Told Me what life would be
When I fell down my grandma said you see
and my woman always tells me
You got what you found
Maybe you turn around now
but you got what you found
M.S. Morrison
At A Safe Distance
We used to wave goodbye
At A safe distance from our protectors
Mommy would say avert your eyes
they are carrying weapons
They looked so determined
Against the deep blue sky
And as we tended garden that year
We dreamed about their victories
Then one day a man came to our door
He demanded my fathers gun
And took the family silver with him
And said he would protect us from now on
M.S. Morrison
First they want to take away our guns
Then they want to take away our freedom
Geronimo
Truth talks to justice...justice talks to peace...
M.S. Morrison
I don't stop for periods...somebody call the punctuation police.
Toss The Picture
I have relatives who send me pictures of their vacations
I try to put them in order if I can
Of the significance of the experience
If I feel that they were not having a good time at that moment
I toss the picture in the garbage
M.S Morrison
Intent and sometimes a lack there of..is the frame work upon which poetry is built ...
but I could be wrong...
Or I could be Wong...
M.S. Morrison
A Resurrection Of Our Cares
Day to day
We don’t want a tragedy
Or a comedy of errors
Just a little drama
And a resurrection of our cares
M.S. Morrison
Life is not about one day...
The power of words is found in the infinite...
M.S. Morrison
John went out in his garage and woke up five days latter...
We Made Tea
We made tea
In a Blue China Cup
The water was hot
The tea wasn’t
If I get in hot water let me steep
For ten minuets…
By the way…
I usually taste better with a little sugar
M.S. Morrison
No Answers
I have no answers for you baby
I have no answer
Have no answers for you baby
No answer
I used to sing you to sleep
Thought your soul was to keep
But I have no answer for you baby
No answers
No answers
M.S. Morrison
A song to sing
It's just a song to sing
A melody of joy
That has no memory
Of broken promise or withered sky
Just grass so green
With golden leaves
That come and go
While the music plays me
Soft and slow
M.S. Morrison
What I Could Never Understand
I wish That I could solve with pen
What I could never understand
How the reason for the words went blind
Until what was so simple then
Became so blurred with time
M.S. Morrison
At the writers end: carve it on my tombstone
I understand better now what I never knew...
M.S. Morrison
If we give up the ghosts of our past then we may just have a future...
M.S.Morrison
We only gain political muscle by asking for the decency of what is right...
M. S. Morrison
My Grandma use to say that if you don't feed that family now then you must let their
dog bite you later.
M.S. Morrison
Economies Of Scale
The largest benevolent world trusts that help millions of people;
are managed by the likes of Bill Gates and Warren Buffet.
In comparison Communism is but a footnote of history and the Hippie Movement a
small Acid party.
M.S. Morrison
Many
Many people are sailing thru rough waters
Many people trying to save what they have left
Many people listening to the heartbeat of the ocean
Many people drifting out to sea
Many people just trying to help
M.S. Morrison 2009
Story To Tell
I went a little crazy on the southern ideal
Like Elvis I was a poor boy with a story to tell
Learned to play guitar on the edge of my bed
Heard the roar of the crowd but not what was said
Moved to L.A. with a hope and a prayer
Just another poor boy with a story to tell
I got me an agent with an agent of her own
And she tells me I’m good and she tells me I’m great
She buys all my drugs and sets all my dates
And when I get a little crazy from the rock and roll
She puts her arms around me and once again I’m whole
I’m just a poor boy with a story to tell in my own kind of hell
Sitting up late on the edge of my bed
I can hear the roar of the crowd
I just can’t remember what was said
M.S. Morrison
Like Diamonds Lost When You Are Gone
Don’t cry little one
Live plush in the deep green spring
and fly out on the early dawn
Tomorrow is another day
Don’t cry little one
You are still the precocious child you have become
And a beautiful woman along the way
Don’t cry little one
No one knows like you
The love you give with the morning dew
And the tears we all will shed
Like diamonds lost when you are gone
M.S. Morrison
Small business is the alter of invention... Tax it and kill the golden goose.
M.S. Morrison
Century after Century
Century after Century,
Would be dictators have gained power,
By promising to punish the rich and free the poor
Then shortly after they consolidated power they raped and pillaged both
Then they shot them in the head and left them in the ditch for dead
Be careful what you wish for…
M.S. Morrison
How to lie with Statistics
Lesson One
100% of people Die
10% of people live
20% of people live
50% of people live
75% of people live
100% of people live
100% of people pay taxes
100% of people die
M.S. Morrison
What is life about
It’s a tenuous existence that we live
We die die die and sometimes live…
What is life about.. Well I will tell you son
It about a father’s holding on
and a mother’s loving touch
and well.. its about so so much.
M.S. Morrison
YOU WOULD SHINE
And if they captured you in a bottle
You would shine forever
Even though you were dead
And if they sold you out
They would spend the rest of their lives
Trying to buy you back
And you would shine
M.S. Morrison
You Give A Man A Gun
You give a man a gun; then you crap on him,
and you crap on him,
then you crap on him again...
for years and years and years..
then you don't know why he pulls the trigger.
M.S. Morrison
Just Take My Word For It
I love you and you love me
That’s not enough for me
I like to stand alone and be what I can be
I love you more than tomorrow but less than yesterday
Let me put this another way…
There was a time
There was a place
In outer space, when we belonged together
Just take my word for it…
M.S. Morrison
And We All Die In The End
I looked at what might have been
then I looked at tomorrow
And I looked at the days in front of me
And wiped away the tears of my sorrow
I started over again
And I am glad you are still my friends
And we all die in the end
M.S. Morrison
NOW AND THEN
It took a long time to come around the bend
Now you see me and I see you
Remember it was so simple when
I used to sing you to sleep
and if I could stay off the bottle
you would see me too
And I could Love you
Now and then
M.S. Morrison
I loose the day
My baby loves me
yea my baby.. yea my baby..
loves me
well enough
Still I get tangled up
and loose my way
I forget and lose the day
But then tomorrow comes and gives me a another chance
Then I find myself again following her around
Just like when we met twenty years ago
I keep loosing what I found
But I keep trying to become a better person.
M.S. Morrison
Just a dancer in the band
I used to be a dancer in the band
Of my own beliefs
Now I join in once in a while
and sing a chorus of love
and some times beg to God
for my release
M.S. Morrison
Pages Left Undone
My work will never run its course
Not as long as I love
Not as long as I live
Take no responsibility
For my child like love
But nurture it
Endure Its baffling winds
Become a new sailor on pure waters
And prepare to come about
M.S. Morrison
Tired
I am Tired of a country where we celebrate the woman and denigrate the man
Where we say white is bad and any other color is better
We are all people of color
We love like no other
So what is wrong
M.S.Morrison
Words Didn't Matter
I looked up and saw the face of a lover
Someone else with a heart like mine
Clear green eyes looking deep into my soul
Without fear for what I would find
I was swept away with the moment
To this day I can’t remember what was said
There were words but words didn’t matter…
M.S. Morrison
Hawks Nest… West ( By God )Virginia
I grew up with a cat on the porch and a long haired lazy dog
Where the sunlight streams through the trees so green
…bees buzzing in a hollow log
On a gravel road where the crowds don’t go and the hands of the clock stand still
That brings to mind a simpler time when living was the biggest thrill…
M.S. Morrison
Thanks to the Skaggs family for bringing us over 50 years of country music.
Take Me Back
Take me back to the countryside
Take me back where my dreams can’t hide
Take me back to the simple life
Where there was always time
Take me back to the memories
Like June bugs in July
Take me back where summer winds
Blow easy through my mind
M.S. Morrison
If a thought can better life let me think it now...
M.S. Morrison
Live
Live by the sword
Die by the sword
Live by the sword
Die by the sword
Live Live Live...
M.S. Morrison
Fight
I am the self centered bastard that your mother told you not to play with...
But you want me next to you in a fight.
M.S. Morrison
Lost
We are as lost as twinkling stars in the distance of our own creation
M.S.Morrison
Thoughts of feelings ( Part 1)
Those we put out of mind
Be they hated once
Or loved for a lifetime
Are given the power of our soul
They are seen clearly by us
Even in the darkness
For they have walked alone barefoot
Across the burning fires of our indifference
M.S. Morrison
Empty hallway
Yellow smoke on blue walls…empty hallway
Someone’s tearing up the tires in the gravel outside
I’ve got some disease that I was born with
That dreaded pain that makes me want to live
I just want to live… to live and love again
M.S. Morrison
The best legacy we can leave our children is a debt free society...
M.S. Morrison
My grandmother used to tell me don't promise people what you can't do...
M.S. Morrison
Civilization only managed to make minor mistakes
until government was invented...
M.S. Morrison
After years of thought I have become bi-political. I hate both Parties.
M.S. Morrison
Words can't tell the story...But we can write the book
M.S. Morrison
Changing all the time
They’ll be yellows greens and blues
In any shade you choose
And you will love and sometimes loose
In the watercolor rain
Heaven Knows what the world would be
If you’re eyes could clearly see the sunshine
You wake up in a purple haze
Looking back at the single days
That you’ve been through
And you are changing all the time
M.S. Morrison
Anger and Lust
There’s a dream that comes from the vine
Where all the treasures we trust
Are caught in the fires of time
And would be ashes and dust
Except for the red liquid spilled
In moments of anger and lust
M.S. Morrison
We are so green with climate change that maybe soon we will smell the money...
M.S. Morrison
The most fun I ever had was in the pool with Sally Wednesday .
In Tuesday Arizona...or was that Monday…
M.S. Morrison
I feel like Benjamin Button in reverse...
Holy River
I sat down by a holy river
That flowed silently to the sea
Soon that holy river
raged inside of me
M.S. Morrison
Then a baby smiles…
When the sky turns dark and cloudy
And you’re laying there with a broken body
Listening to some strangers as they cry
Promising to come to see you
Wishing that they could be you
Hoping that you would get better one more time
…then you run beyond the trees
To an open field in your mind
Where the perfection of your pain
Is of a special kind…
And you wish it were real
What you thought you saw in your lovers eyes
And then a baby smiles as the world goes by
M.S. Morrison 1990
I have spent a lifetime in obscurity...I am Beginning to enjoy it.
M.S. Morrison
If I Could Take A Bullet For The World
I hope it would go straight through me
With a white hot passion it would cleanse me
And kill the bitter life that so many still live
Maybe then we could fall down in laughter
In the deep green grass of what were after
Never being less than what we are
With a place to put all our sorrows
Finding all our new tomorrows
Soaring with the blue birds in the clouds
But when I look around me
Looking at the eyes that found me
Like everyone I hope for one more day
But still I say… If I Could Take A Bullet for the World
M.S. Morrison
All I Remember of Love
I read a card from my Mom from 88
It seems she missed me then; and now
She’s 81. All I remember of love is love Mom
Hope you are well…
M.S. Morrison
Clouds Of Wanting.
I look at life from a distance that gives me some perspective.
But the view is not perfect; it is obscured by clouds of wanting.
M.S. Morrison
What does not kill me makes me limp around for a while
M.S Morrison
Remember Me: I am a three legged dog in a broken down pony
show.
M.S. Morrison
Free...Free...Free..
I am so glad that Health Care will soon be free...anybody got
change for the Trillion dollar shipping and handling fee...
M.S. Morrison (1999) 2009
The World
Praise Allah: save these people from their own government.
I am only one man...exploit me for the purposes of life.
You Are You're Own Leader Get Moving...NOW
No one has the political will to redeem us...but ourselves
Sound bites will only destroy the world
Until we really care about the world it will not get better...
M.S. Morrison
I don't know why I am here...But I am Here.
M.S.Morrison
Always dumber than the future to come
I've got news for you the 60's never happened
it was sold to your parents on television
By the same people that are selling you your future today
We are always smarter than the past generation
Always dumber than the future to come
M.S. Morrison 2009
Our Silences…
Deepen understanding
Freeze the moment
Cast shadows across nations
Unite the spirit
Deny anger
Lie broken by what could wait no longer
Offer hope
Dash it to pieces
Are bridges of healing where sickness has divided
Love with everlasting passion
Touch the stillness
Our silences…
M.S. Morrison 2009
Some Silences
Some silences deepen understanding
Some silences freeze the moment
Some silences cast shadows across nations
Some silences unite the spirit
Some silences deny anger
Some silences lie broken by what could wait no longer
Some silences offer hope
Some silences dash it to pieces
Some silences are bridges of healing where sickness has divided
Some silences Love with everlasting passion
Some silences touch the stillness
Some silences…
M.S. Morrison 1983
Saigon
Watching a Tiger walk through the mush.
A steaming mixture of organic decay..
In which three bodies lay face down.
He slowly reaches for his spoon.
Then stabs aimlessly at the fly..
In his hot bowl of cereal..
Gone are the days of Saigon,
He mumbles silently..
Gone are the days of Saigon.
M.S. Morrison 1983
There are many books of life...few get to read them all.
M.S. Morrison
The prize of the moment is time
M.S. Morrison
It's All I Can Say...Goodnight and Good Day.
But Until Then We Will Fight.
During the attack on the village,
he was asked; "what will you do to save us"
He said, If I fall on my sword,
I will count on the thousands who come after me,
to overwhelm the enemy in tomorrows time and place.
But until then we will fight.
M.S. Morrison
I only know the way...and the way is good.
M.S. Morrison
In order to gain equality, I am willing to use their words against them.
M.S. Morrison
LIVE IN THE OPEN
M.S. Morrison
When you meet the most resistance... that is when you are about to solve the problem.
M.S. Morrison
I have tried earnestly, my entire life, to avoid work, whenever possible.
Now that I am retiring from all honest efforts to maintain an industrious facade;
I can and will enjoy a complete collapse of all attempts to save me from moral
destruction.
M. S. Morrison
The Past
The Past is like a ribbon
Holding up your hair
You turn around to find it
but it's not there
M.S. Morrison
Where one runs.. two will follow...Then a crowd issues forth into the street
M.S. Morrison 1983
Looking
Looking down the rows of corn...
Looking at a sea of cotton...
Well old times here are gone...
But are they forgotten.
M.S. Morrison
I once was a Vincent Van gone
I hung every where that was wrong
M.S. Morrison
Tolerance is what you do when you got your ass in gear
M.S. Morrison
The day the towers died
It was a crisp September
We were talking aimlessly as people do
A plane flew into the first building
As TVs lit up across the world
Everything was in slow motion
We didn’t know what it meant
Oh god what next..what now..
The world stopped
As the towers fell we sat in silence
Then we gathered up our gear
Locked the door and went home
To the uneasy world that lay before us
M.S. Morrison
To insure the lifetime of a rumor is to deny it.
M. S. Morrison
Blue Heaven
A chosen son of the promised land
He blasted off with a master plan
To bring back to the human race
A gleaming chunk of outer space
And he called it Blue Heaven
In a rocket built with his own two hands
From a vision seen in the dark of night
With a holy cross upon his chest
And a heart knowing wrong from right
Blue Heaven…Blue Heaven
He’s just looking for a little piece of heaven
Blue Heaven…Blue Heaven
Just searching for a little Blue Heaven
Deep into the Las Vegas sky
He gripped the golden throttle tight
He said his prayers and looked outside
And thought about Elvis died
They found him on a mountain top
The papers called it suicide
The body was later lost
His mother said he never lied
M.S.Morrison
For the Dream
For a woman can do what she will;
But what is the value of her Life,
if she does not own her Dream in the end ?
M.S. Morrison
When life is Steep form Terraces in your life.
M.S. Morrison
Poetry is about Questions.
M.S.Morrison
For A Dream
For a man can do what he will;
But what is the value of his life,
if he does not own his dream in the end ?
M.S. Morrison
He Had Cancer.
He was a Geologist.
He had Cancer.
When asked why he spent so many nights in the woods;
He would say you must understand it is the downside of dating rocks.
They live out in the middle of nowhere.
You expend all you’re energy going there.
Then you have no energy to get back;
Until the sun rises.
M.S. Morrison
MICHAEL
Michael got what Joe wanted.. a martyr.
Michael could not escape the bonds of earth unless he died.
Joe reveled in it :
The aftermath:
Michael dead without a voice;
The millions continued to roll in;
Whatever wrong there was before was compounded.
Only God can save you now Michael:
Laying there on that crown of thorns,
I hear a singing in the wind…and a brief respite in the wings;
Then the orchestra begins with strings and winds.
Michael sings with a choir of angels.
Forever is you’re fate..why wait..Forever is you’re fate.
Who will take up this cause.
Who will save justice.
For a man can do what he will;
But what is the value of his life,
if he does not own his dream in the end.
M.S. Morrison
LIFE...Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
Ellis
These hallowed halls that hold every dream
This elegant structure built with foreign hands
That took in the cold and weary of the world
Will never close its doors again
In fear of what these freedoms mean
M.S. Morrison
Ellis Island closed the year I was born in 1954
Ellis
3 acres took in the world for five years and burned.
Rebuilt.. it began again and became less corrupt.
The sadness of the past and the hope for a better future balanced each other.
Low cost labor drove immigration.. we won the competition through better opportunity.
By the 1880s we became more cautious of our acceptance.
We began to reject some but still accepting many.
We manifest all foreign passengers and created a history.
36 hours and four days in 3 classes is what it took to pass the endurance test of ocean
travel to America
During the end of the 19th century and at the beginning of the twentieth century there
was excitement all around
People were bustling into America
The adventure continued…Will we ever reach America was the question.
The best part of the travel was the tearful end at the Statue of Liberty.
They were so happy they began to sing… living is golden... living is golden.
As they sailed on to the Isle of Tears and into the company of strangers.
M.S. Morrison
She Simply Died
My neighbor died today
A little old Grey haired lady
That the ambulance quietly carried away
There was no hurry
No crowd
No reporters asking why
She simply died
M.S. Morrison
June 27 2009
JW
We weren't allowed to pledge allegiance to the flag. This was hard to explain. The very
same flag that allowed us to say no. My Sixth grade teacher made an example of me.
He pointed me out and called me a communist. I asked my father to talk to him and he
told me that it was my responsibility to stand up for my faith. I told my teacher that I
would stand but that I would not hold my hand up against my heart.
Michael S. Morrison 1966
Jackpot City
Jackpot City
Looking very pretty
Jackpot City
Going to make me rich
Jackpot City
Always going to feed me
Jackpot City
Scratches every itch
Jackpot City
What you going to give me
Jackpot City
I want my neighbors car
Jackpot City
I know you’re going to free me
Jackpot City
I want a big Cigar
M..S. Morrison 2009
Because They Are Coming
What color is your planet
The one you live on
The island you sit on
The opinion you hold on to
For dear dear life
I got a 45
Sitting by my bedside
Waiting for an argument
That never comes
You tell me what to believe
You tell me what you see
Be the lookout
The keeper of the hideout
Because they are coming
M.S. Morrison
P.S. Paranoia will destroy ya
More and More
More and More like everywhere else
More and More like everywhere else
More and More like everywhere else
Something we know so well
That goes straight to hell
M.S. Morrison
I WAS 55
I smelled the hot rain falling
On the Home Depot parking lot
Oil drenched steam billowing up
With the slight smell of sawn lumber in the air
Like my first day in the auditorium in my elementary school
With the wood floors freshly oiled
Filling our minds with the whispers of what lay beyond
And tempting us to run home across the yard
M.S. Morrison
My Grandmother:
Used to make sandwiches for the starving people passing by her house during the
great depression.
She was a half breed Cherokee but no one knew.
She was proud of her race a great cook she made a life of cooking.
My grandmother was a pragmatist; she did what worked.
She never invested in the stock market because she thought it was gambling.
When World War II broke out she sewed Parachutes for the U.S. Army.
She met my grand father as a field cook, feeding the men who built hydroelectric
dams across the south.
If there was a rock and a hard place she was there.
She could drink curse and spit as good as any of the men.
My grandmother built a hard scrabble life for herself with an indefinite future.
She left her two children short of loving kindness and a feeling of well being, But Self
Reliant.
My grandmother tried in the little time we had to improve my life and feed me
spiritually.
She showed me a picture of her mother in Indian (Cherokee) dress because she
wanted me to know.
My grandmother died with her hand in mine at the age of 86 in Florida within Minuets
of my arrival.
We all cried because there nothing we could do.
She was always stronger than us and finally she had her own way .
M.S. Morrison 2009
History Lies
History lies and time fades away.
The best days I had were never that way.
Don’t sell your soul for the memory of yesterday.
Or for the shining promise of a better tomorrow.
Live now for history lies.
M.S. Morrison
Missed Opportunities
On My Plate
On my mind is a plate.
On the plate is a smoking steak.
On the steak is an exotic sauce.
and I am at K-mart looking for a lawn chair.
M.S. Morrison
P.S. Am I Plate or Steak
The Campaign
Now you understand that the economics of the situation call for expansive economic
planning and for a dynamic of future wealth and an ongoing financial process which
cannot be interrupted by reality.
M.S. Morrison
I Called The CIA
I made some bbq today
It all went wrong so I called the CIA
My wife got mad at me
Because I left a burner on
The weak always die before the strong
What makes me crazy makes me strong
I didn’t take my time today
I let the time slip away
But I didn’t get paranoid
I called the CIA
But this time I hung up
M.S. Morrison
What If
"What if my whole life has been wrong"...
Then I will start over again.
M.S. Morrison
Afghanistan
Gun trucks moving down the highway, going my way, are you...
Gun trucks and every thing gets.. quiet, real quiet..
just before we do what we do.
Did all the people back home forget us or do they get us...
Like when they start their cars..
Gun trucks moving down the highway moving for you.
M. S. Morrison
But for today only
Coming up out of the depths
Swimming up
From the deep
A cold blue feeling colder than ice
A chill runs up my spine and I realize I am sweating
I have seen sharks eye to eye
On land and off
Survived horrendous damage to my body
Repelled psychic and spiritual harm
I have loved like no other
I have come to terms with my own reality
But for today only
Tomorrow never sleeps
M.S. Morrison
News at 11:00
Lose weight, stop smoking, relieve stress, fears, or pain.
Addictions, confidence, sleep and relationships.
get laid, find religion,win at politics.News at 11:00.
M.S.Morrison
The United States Of America: Worlds largest theme Park.
M.S. Morrison 2009
Those who do not listen are condemned to silence.
M.S. Morrison
Nirvana
The bad life is two bitches in one one place.
The good life is three bitches in one place.
Nirvana is one bitch in one place.(who likes you)
M.S. Morrison
Dying is the only thing I got left and i aim to do it right.
SO
AND THE PAGES PRESS CLOSE TOGETHER THERE.
SO MANY PAGES OF OUR LIVES.
The problem with living to an older age is our habits continue to call our sanity into
question.
M.S. Morrison
When Will We Reach Beyond Words
M.S. Morrison
Everybody say now: I am the prize who want to win me.
M.S. Morrison
Fresh Cherries
She is the kind of woman who would give you fresh cherries
in a napkin to enjoy on your way home.
M.S. Morrison
Taco Salad
I had a taco salad; pumped 49.00 of premium,
and voted for the best home design in America
before I checked my oil.
What is wrong with America M.S. Morrison
No I am Not Geek; someone has to remember what buttons to push.
M.S.Morrison
Took a drink
I took a drink of water out of the well
It was a cold drink of water
M.S. Morrison
Burning Star
Oh you burning star
You shinning light
You pass so quickly into the night
M.S. Morrison
Genius
Find what you have a genius for.
Do it and don't look back.
Unless looking back is your genius.
M.S. Morrison
Deep
It's a picture I took of myself 20 years ago
I hold it close and I know
that it can see what I cannot
It can see the morning light
When I am asleep
And protect me from anything bad I may keep
Deep inside me
M.S. Morrison
Had a stroke yesterday
didn't stay and went away
didn't leave me paralyzed
didn't leave me less in your eyes
I HAD A STROKE YESTERDAY
do you hear me
I HAD A STROKE YESTERDAY
CAN YOU HEAR ME
M.S. MORRISOM
Good Bad
I use my good technology for all the bad reasons.
I use all my bad technology to forever change the seasons.
Bad good: I use all my good technology for all the bad reasons.
Bad good good bad good bad
the engine that runs life...sometimes.
bad may become good... someday
I don't know...
M.S. Morrison
I used to drink alone now I drink at home
M.S. Morrison
Like an old fire place that no longer burns are the prejudices of my age
M.S. Morrison
The prize of the moment is time
M.S.Morrison
I found all of my tomorrows in yesterday
M.S. Morrison
Poetry is about something broken deep inside and a cracker jack prize
M.S. Morrison
Everything is tangled in my fate.
M. S. Morrison
Right
I have no time to right good words
M.S. Morrison
Something saw
It’s darkening somewhere in the sky
I saw you and its no lie
Something darkening
Something darkening
Somewhere
The wind came up
I could not hold it back
The tornado came
And something saw
M.S. Morrison 2009
Sing
Sing A song Sing a song Sing a damn song Sing it all day long
Like an anthem to your Darkness
Sing a damn song
M.S. Morrison
Biased
We are all biased by the lens of our desire
M.S.Morrison
Born in the USA
Most of the unrest in the world
Most of the resistance against tyranny
Was born in the USA
M.S. Morrison
I had A Bad Day
We are all living in a house of death
all we need to do is find out who the clown is
that put us here and kill him or her or them
If you think the clues are in the bible...good luck
...and remember live every day like you are going to kill tommorrow
M.S. Morrison
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity
in every difficulty."
Winston Churchill
Rebuild America
The Communist Democrats and the Fascist Republicans no longer serve the needs of
the United States of America or its citizens.
The working class will prevail and build a new political party based on work and
productivity.
We will rebuild America as a greener stronger nation that makes its own goods and is
not a slave to petroleum products.
We will take care of our young and our old.
We will rebuild America by supporting small business and by protecting our natural
resources.
Our military will not hesitate to protect us but will not step beyond that mission.
We will increase our national security by reaching out to those who will listen.
We are not an island and will seek to include our neighbors in the South and Central
American region.
We will seek to become one America and unify our hemisphere one billion strong.
M.S.Morrison
Music is the bastard of the Ages
M.S. Morrison
Better
I've tried wine women and song
I definitely like #$@@# better
M.S. Morrison
On Wednesday
Ill kill myself next Wednesday
In the garage with a rope
Not too tight just tight enough
I hope it all goes smooth
Ill kill myself without fail
I am sure I am dying now
But if I kill myself I hope its clean
Am I dying now?
Ill kill my self if I can on Wednesday
Because I cannot pay the bill
For what it costs to bury me
Ill leave work early if I can
Well Ill kill myself
Uh Ill kill my self
Ill kill my self
If I have the time
On Wednesday
M.S. Morrison
A place to say goodnight
Everyone lives in their own house
The one without walls
The one where they can think out loud
The one with a place and a space
For them and the people they invite
A place to say no and yes
A place to say goodnight
A place to say goodbye
M.S. Morrison May 2009
The American press is the craziness in the closet.
M.S. Morrison
Be your own captain
Sail your own boat
M.S. Morrison 2009
Lazy.
I’ve seen bad and I’ve seen good
I’ve been rich and misunderstood
I’ve been poor and hungry and cold
But I never tried to sell my soul
I figured to sell your soul is hard…
and I’m basically lazy.
M.S. Morrison May 2009
My Guru is now my servant
M.S. Morrison
Reach Beyond Your Time
M.S. Morrison
Words Are My Children
M.S. Morrison
Freedom
The Anarchists would destroy
The Communists would Corrupt
The Capitalists would sell
The Nationalists would suppress
Freedom
Freedom
Freedom
Michael S. Morrison 2009
Freedom is the heart of true Democracy
M.S. Morrison
Hopes And Dreams
Hopes and dreams flying by
I can see the twinkle in your eye
Wish as may and I might
I can’t change the evening light
But Time gets better with time
Life moves on
I sing my dreams to sleep
And Life moves on
Yes life moves on
In our hopes and dreams
M.S. Morrison
For All Your Dreams
When you say
My heart sleeps
When you sigh
My heart sleeps
When you move
My heart leaps
My heart lives
for all your dreams
M.S. Morrison
Marry Then
I Stood close to the Watchtower near the well
Taking on arrows and very close to Hell
Listened to the yelling and listened to the fight
So I left out fear that it wouldn’t end right
I left for my bonny lass I would meet in the wind
Away we would go and marry then
Oh we would marry then
We would go marry then
Me and my bonny lass would marry then
In the deep darkness of the wind
M.S. Morrison
WE ARE BETTING IT ALL
With one roll of the dice
One roll we are betting everything
A bright new group of people are leading the government
Will they break on through to the other side or will they fissile
Will They be brilliant or dull and smart and fail or will they be pragmatic and win
Is It a new day or just another ho hum tomorrow
We wait we listen we wait and in the end we wait
M.S. Morrison
THE WAY
Need
Availability
Supply
Location
Fulfillment
Care
M.S. Morrison 2009
Good Home
Good Food
Good Life
M.S. Morrison 2009
BANKRUPTCY FOR THE POOR
There is a flashing blue neon sign on the White House Door
It says: “Bankruptcy For The Poor”
The Congress has become a whore
To the desire for perpetual reelection
There is no reflection in the mirror any more
The new boss is same as the old boss
But he wants to give us a different feel
He wants us to need him with his brand new drug
While he leaves the Middle Class out in the cold again
And while he fixes he destroys everything we were hoping for
M.S. Morrison 2009
It's On The Street:
God has a hand puppet called Satan.
Satan has A hand puppet called God.
M.S. Morrison
I Am A Sentinel Of Tomorrow
M.S. Morrison
Here's To The End
Here's to end of the Analog Sound
Here's to the end of the Electron Tube
Here's to the AM Fade
On a country road in the month of June
Here's to getting away
With a Transistor Radio
Where the Blue Jeans are frayed
And its always up to You
M.S. Morrison 2009
Love Like No Other
M.S. Morrison
Life is a mystery that changes the course of history
M. S. Morrison
Life is short but it sure is wide
M.S. Morrison
The job of the old is to remind the young of what they have lost and what they can
reclaim.
M.S.Morrison
A Place
It was best the we could do
It was best the we could do
Then later I realized
It was a place in our own lives
And it was the best we could do
M.S. Morrison
Mr. Paulson You Saved the world...Thank You!
Like a dog on a chain
Like a dog on a chain
Like a dog on a chain
Like a dog on a chain
In the front yard in the rain
M.S. Morrison
When
back when we fell in love with the music
back a long time ago we became almost pure
We sang our song and we pledged our allegiance
to that of which we were sure of then
and the sun came up and we started all over again
way back when
way back then
never like the first time
M.S.Morrison
WAITING FOR OBAMA
When he gets here he will make everything better
We can already feel it
The food tastes better
The sex is better
And after everything is said and done
OBAMA will be the only one
P.S. When he gets here he will be the new Jesus...AMEN
M.S. Morrison
LIFE
The only life you have is the life you carve out for yourselves
M.S. Morrison
Could I
Could I do more
Could I do less
I hate the question
Because I lay awake at night
Wondering what I can do
To make the difference
M.S. Morrison
On A Red Dirt Road
Red Dirt Roads Lead Every Where
They Lead me Back to Jesus
I see Martyrs Walking there
With Elvis trying to feed us
And in the interim
There are harps and wings
And we begin to sing where are you lord
And a quiet comes to save us
And we all stand in naked grace
Before the day and smile
On A Red Dirt Road
M.S. Morrison
BIG A
Big A Train coming
Coming down the track
Coming down
Coming down
Coming down
The track
Well we road off down the rails
But we haven’t crashed yet
Day go by
I don’t know why
MY GRANDMA COULD NOT CASH HER CHECK
Big A train coming to save us all
Big A train coming some day
Well the big A train coming anyway
M. S. Morrison
And we will all sing together in the end
we will all sing together
we will all sing together
And we will all sing together in the end
M.S. Morrison
THE WHALE
He sees the knife and he remembers the words of his ancestors;
In killing you they will kill themselves and he smiles and dies.
M. S. Morrison
Japan :Stop Killing Whales in Antarctica and in your minds
or you will kill your culture today.
The Democrats always weaken our military; squander all the money, and set the
nations course for oblivion.
M.S. Morrison
By M.S. MORRISON
SONGS
POETRY
PICTURES
HISTORY
EDITORIAL
Better Tomorrow
Sayings
LINKS
I feel A disturbance in the force...
Obscurity lets me take naps in the afternoon...
Live in the moment write for the Ages...
Kiss my Analog ass...Digital world
I get lost at night and find myself dreaming in the morning light
To be a racist against your own race what kind of self hated is that…
When I drink deep dark red wine I see no boundary's of human culture or human kind
Somebody
Somebody takes it
Somebody gives it
Somebody makes it
Somebody lives it
Somebody wants it
Someone rejects it
Somebody stops it
Somebody lets it
Somebody
Somebody
Somebody
go
go
go
M.S.Morrison
One Man
One man wanted peace
one man wanted a seat
one man wanted a leg
one man wanted some feet
one man crawled to freedom
one man walked a mile
one man man made a million
one man saved a child
M.S.Morrison
Cigarettes Taste Better Naked
When your lover shares a puff or two
just for him or her and you
Cigarettes taste better naked
when all is right with god…
and you don’t bring it up
Because you don’t want to be misunderstood
and you don’t want to kill the love
or the the buzz that you are into…
M.S. Morrison
Beauty
When you are looking at beauty
Don’t you know what you are looking at
you are looking at peace
at love
at accidental
perfection
Because beauty is of the moment
and the moment that you realize
that you are looking at beauty
it disappears…
M.S. Morrison
The Greater good
One Trillion for healthcare
One Trillion for banks
One Trillion for the next great Obama Idea
Borrowing tens of thousands of dollars
because you lost your job...priceless
Dont lecture me about the greater good
I have seen both sides of the coin
and one side is just as dirty as the other
Flip the coin and one way or another
you may only destroy yourselves
M.S. Morrison
18 Days
I walked up on the porch
Knocked on the door
Looked up and told him I was there
for the State of Tennessee
He wasn’t too happy
He said he wanted to turn me inside out
or up side down
I knew that all I could do was hold my ground
I said i just need to ask you a question or two about your daughter
She hasn’t been to school in 18 days
and I need to see her to make sure she is okay
and if you don’t mind
I would feel much better
if you would put that gun away
M.S. Morrison
Memories
Where is the banana pudding of my youth
The tingling Cinnamon smell of bare foot dreams
The hot apple pie melting the cold ice cream
M.S. Morrison
We don't want to die
We don't want to die
admit it we don't want to die
we love life and we may have our opinions
but if someone asked us why
we don't want to die...
M.S. Morrison
Nothing We Could Do
I sat on the floor and listened to Vietnam
I was missing a few friends some where out there
They were fighting for me and you
There were voices everywhere from Haiphong to Timbuktu
I listened in on the shortwave to Hanoi Hannah
Listened to the BBC
I laughed and prayed for victory
When it was all over no one said but we knew
My friends weren't comming back and there was nothing we could do
M.S. Morrison
If i expose my life to you then i hope you remember me as more than my Photograph...
Sex Is Not Enough
Stayed up so late that now is morning
Why is sleep so boring
Sometimes even sex is not enough
Why does life have to be so rough
Why does life have to be so rough
That sometimes
Even sex is not enough
M.S. Morrison
To anyone who thinks they see a sign of weakness what makes you think who you
are...
Michael S. Morrison
Things of mercy
Things of mercy
Things of Love
Things from god
far above
M.S. Morrison
What I will Itch
I can only say so much
Without people looking in
but sometimes i talk and they listen in
And you know i am their bitch
So they ask me for what i will itch
M.S.Morrison
Loving Touch
Sometimes people stand behind you so much
that when they are gone you look around you
and miss their loving touch...
M.S. Morrison
I will parade a lot of things by your street
You will look at them as you will...M.S. Morrison
“One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road
do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice
answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.” Lewis Carroll
IF
If the bear went over the mountain
If the chicken crossed the road
If the cow jumped over the moon
Then why won't you kiss this horny little toad
M.S. Morrison
I know why i was getting the wrong answerers to my questions on the internet...
i was goggling it instead of Boogleing it...M.S.Morrison
Where Parker stands
On the patio porch
Trying to ignite
a short fuse
In the Hurricane
of a Blond blowtorch
M.S.Morrison
Autumn Leaves
Blurred browns Reds and Golds
Spiral in the air
Touched by unseen force
Spin with dancing flair
Brittle beauties
Sail around the empty trees
Bending masts
Like brightly painted craft
Captured in the Autumn breeze
M.S. Morrison
Truth
I told the truth but you didn't accept it
It was my truth
Not yours
So you had the right to reject it
But not the right to demean it...
M.S. Morrison
My grandfathers life
Frozen in a photograph
is my grandfathers life
He helped build america
took a wife
She stood by him even in the end
when he died on the roof
nailing the last shingle in
M.S.Morrison
We we ain't dead until we lay down M.S. Morrison
Old Oak Tree
Standing out under the old oak tree
I see the long grey limbs
As I walk under its vast protection
For a hundred years standing here
waiting for us to take up its cause
with patience and grace
The big black ants are busy
Moving food around the wrinkled bark
And the yellowed leaves continue to fall
leaves are crunching under my feet in a symphony
This is where I abide not in some closed off room
Let the daylight be my tomb
I have lived long enough to see
The great beginnings of an old oak tree
M.S. Morrison
Rolled Around
You know we kissed so hard
And we rolled around
And in that truck
Untill we both forgot
Why we went to town...
M.S. Morrison
No One Knows what has been
Or what has been seen
My thoughts tumble into reason
Change in every season until they are done...
M.S. Morrison
A stronger dream
i took a long time to love you
i did not know a thing
i thought we disagreed
didnt under stand what we really need
now late at night when we find the way
that saves our souls
we combine into a stronger dream
M.S.Morrison
Perhaps we will stop cutting off our feeds and start tending to our needs and we will
say how they offend us and they will tell us how we suck...
And so the Constitution was written by Christians who in their infinite wisdom
provided a separation between Church and State...M.S.Morrison
We can change the world in 30 seconds... Friends don't hide Friends...Spread the word
and good luck.
Friends don't hide friends...Good Luck
Please open your news feeds to everyone...Thank You...and Good Luck.
M.S. Morrison
The only way this society is going to grow personally is by opening up its (friends)
news feeds to everyone all the time...good luck.
When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks,
the fault lies in yourself. Tecumseh
When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of
death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live
their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero
going home.Tecumseh
Ringing Of the Bell
Once again the world has changed
Its gotten better so they claim
Still I keep remembering that age old line
Buddy can you spare a dime
I would trade today for yesterday
Cause yesterday is so far away
From all the wrongs right now
I don’t know where the time has gone
But I can hear the ringing of the bell
And see the red on that blue uniform
That saved me from a living hell
A penny for your thoughts
A prayer for the blind
And buddy can you spare a dime…
M.S. Morrison
Acceptance has found nirvana...
Then what is the beauty of being me...M.S. Morrison
You of all should know the beauty of being you...Michael S. Morrison
We stand on the edge of an anarchy of death cults masquerading as religion...
M.S. Morrison
Deeper Than The Soul
As i fall apart physically
i come together psychically
and i dream more
i dream about peace
and a quiet blue lake
that is deeper than the soul...
M.S. Morrison
When my Love of life deepens...
In the morning when i think
that i have the world by the balls
and i remember all my victories
and any defeats seem distant
is when my Love of life deepens...
Michael S. Morrison
The moment we find the reason behind an emotion...the wall we have built is
breached, and the positive memories it has kept from us return, too. That is why it
pays to ask those painful questions. The answers can set you free! :) Kristan Ware
The poet is always the last one to know...M.S. Morrison
100,000 years from now scientists will think that we worshiped street signs.
You can cook a 20 pound turkey with a Hair Dryer if you have enough time...
Halloween
I remember going up to the door and holding my hand out and she put a really small
squishy brain right in the middle of my palm...and smiled
And you wish it were real
What you thought you saw in your lovers eyes
And then a baby smiles as the world goes by
M.S. Morrison 1990
I may shrink to the size of a pea..But I will still be me M.S.Morrison
The President
He always stood
Tall for his neighborhood
Safe and Sound
He had been a Conservative Democrat
And a real good shot at that
He loved the poor
and he was cordial with the rich
and he wasn't too self concious to scratch an itch
He was not a lonely man
His wife always had a smile
He was technologically correct
And his head was properly attached to his neck
And he didn't know the why to the here or how
But he was the President at least for now...
M.S. Morrison
Time Made Me See
I tried to keep out of the way
I didn't want to look at yesterday
But time made me see
That what we were avoiding
Was our destiny
M.S.Morrison
How Do You Keep Love Alive
Maybe with A little hugging
Maybe with a little truth
Maybe when you rollover
late at night
You reach out..
And whisper..
Is that really you...
M.S. Morrison
I am the dog
It does not matter what you feed me
I will resist your attempts to tame me
You may keep me warm
But i am waiting for the world to be destroyed
So that my tribe can once again prove
That we are superior to your fascist groove
M.S. Morrison
My dog Buckley wrote this Poem...He says he is not my dog.
Promised
She said don't ever leave me
because I will stab you in the back
and I promised not to leave her
unless she had a heart attack...
M.S.Morrison
The Fence
When I stand out by the fence
That divides us and look out at the wide vistas
I realize why we all feel so small and so unsure of ourselves
Why we argue with shadows
Why we believe that our thoughts are omnipotent
M.S. Morrison
Because we are human...
End Of the Dream
There was too much money at stake
And an election that never ends
So what is a little thievery among friends
So we giveth and we taketh away
Because when the sun comes up
They will still believe
So now lets get our story straight...
Victory will be declared
Everything will remain the same...
Though their are no Violins
We can hear the beginnings
of a musical scheme
As we all slowly wake up
To the end of the dream
M.S. Morrison
Victory will be declared everything will remain the same...
No Violins
Though their are no Violins
We can hear the beginnings
Of a musical scheme
As we all slowly wake up
To the end of the dream
M.S. Morrison
A song has been sung...
And pet the dogs and remember how much I love Her...
And drink the coffee she brung...
Maybe I do If I set aside the wine...
Sounds like a song but do I have time...
Well my wife says I have to sober up for breakfast
and she is sending the dogs to make sure I do...
M.S. Morrison
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Still You Are Sitting There
You've always known
That I am going to tell you about my life
Whether you like it or not
And still you are sitting there
In that big comfortable chair.
M.S.Morrison
I have always been surrounded by strong women and weak whiskey...
I am having a period somebody call the punctuation police...
And every one is feeling very small so why don't we stay very very tiny...
They Almost Have To Call The Police
Yesterday he was a troubled child
The teachers said
He can do anything he wants to do
The problem was He usually did
And then he grew up and could not be controlled
And did not play well with others
And could not be consoled
He got in fights he could not win
He won and lost and lost again
Did a little jail time
And learned the reason to the rhyme
Got a job in corporate society
Founded a small tribe of his own
Learned that life was full of variety
And that he was a variety of his own
Now he owns a little music store
And helps to keep the peace
But late at night some times he gets very angry
And they almost have to call the police
M.S. Morrison
Still You Are Sitting There
You've always known
That I am going to tell you about my life
Whether you like it or not
And still you are sitting there
In that big comfortable chair.
M.S.Morrison
I am more concerned with everyone than I am with anyone...
but we we didn't lie...
We Didn't Lie...
When they lied they had no concerns
Because it kept them in the room
What they told you was a lie
But we dont hold it against you
We love you and we were fooled too
We admit we weren't the smartest in the room
But we didn't lie...
M. S. Morrison
I Got Up
I got up and hung my head
told everybody that I was dead
but then I took anouther walk
around the block
and started feeling better
and decided not to sin
I decided to stand and not to run
From anything or anyone...
But I didn't do so good on not sinning...
M.S. Morrison
All I Know
Mama dont say how I can be
Me seeing you and you seeing me
She says we were ment to be
But all i know is...
Me seeing you and you seeing me
M.S. Morrison
The poet is always the last one to know...M.S. Morrison
On my worst day I am Better than yesterday... M.S. Morrison
No one takes me seriously as a dog, that is why I remain a dog...M.S. Morrison
People who get angry about what I say make me angry... M.S Morrison
Dogs Barking
Dogs barking in the yard
Dogs you tied up
Barking because you ignored them
Barking because you fed them
Barking because
You did not have the balls to release them
M.S. Morrison
Death is an empty dream...M.S. Morrison
I still have hope for the world..but not because of its leaders.
Man is only faced with controversy of his own making and others
M.S. Morrison
Disappointed
If we are being watched from outer space
then more than likely someone is very disappointed...
M.S. Morrison
Crazy With Time
Oh Lord I get crazy with time
Please won't you talk with me
Got drunk on a river of wine
While trying so hard to be free
My father said life is rough
And you know how rough it can be
So I feel that life would be fine
If you would just talk with me
Crazy with time
Crazy with time
No Lovers to loose
Only one love to find
Lord I am afraid
That I am loosing my mind
Show me the way throw me a line
(cause) Oh Lord I get crazy with time
M.S. Morrison
We Lost Everything
There will be seasons rain or shine
Drifting slowly through our minds
Be still old heart and let those feelings in:
Talk about the hopes we had
Before the painted moon got sad
Before the love birds ceased to sing
Before the government went broke
And we all lost everything
M.S. Morrion
China Moon
Its only afternoon China moon
What have you been waiting for
Sitting out there shinning
through my open door
You know this just can't be
I feel like you've been tracing me
in broken lines across the sky
Where as a child..I lay down
and sometimes cried
And if you weren't there
you came real soon..China moon
There is no aching gloom
in this room.. China moon
Maybe shes not here right now
but you don't have to waste your time
she will be here soon
I know she will...China moon
Okay..well maybe you've been watching me
These last days haven't been so good
But with luck.. and ill knock on wood
I am sure she would come back..If she could
Ive been so tired of this empty room..China Moon
M.S.Morrison
The Flower
The flower that blossomed
Found peace in the mist of morning
Dancing across meadows long forgotten
M.S. Morrison
The Guppy
I used to feel like i was only one guppy
and what can one guppy do
Then i saw in my mind
a sea of millions swimming together
spinning and flashing in the sun light
And I realized that in my guppyness
i had found power... and peace
M.S Morrison
Calling one political line of thought better than than another
is like calling one death better than the other...
M.S. Morrison
Folly
And paying taxes...
Well Except for gambling...
Sex Is the only folly that we are willing to try over and over again...even with few good
results...
M.S. Morrison (Read it Facebook style)
The Ghost
Did you hear me dreaming in your dreams
Scheming in your schemes
Did you pick up the scent
Of dogs on the road
Running thru the night
Did you see me
Running up the stairs
Asking you who cares
Did you close your eyes
When you were telling all those lies
As you were sleeping
But no ones asking you
The where or when
And thats where
All my visions end
M.S. Morrison
When the mind is still
the floor where I sit
is endless space.
-- Muso Soseki
God believes in You...
I once got lost inside of a conundrum for three days...I had to resort to conjecture to
find my way out...M.S. Morrison
You know you can sue anyone you want to in this country...I once sued myself for
loitering.
M.S.Morrison
The selfishness of mankind is only exceeded by its neediness
Which is only exceeded by mankind’s ability to change…
M.S.Morrison
The only thing of any real importance in life is to prepare to die...
M.S. Morrison
death always trumps life... M.S Morrison
I care what you say and the enemy is not you...
But right now you are pissing me off...,
The genius in poetry is found in the compression of thought...
M.S. Morrison
Don't ever put anything out in the front yard unless you are willing to dress it up...
M.S. Morrison
Art Is born in the symmetry of life.. M.S. Morrison
Carl Lambert: You must realize that what is at stake here does not reside in words and
phrases: it is like sparks from struck flint, like the brilliance of flashing lightning.
However you mange to deal with this, you cannot get around losing your body and
life. - Yunmen (864-949)
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The flint has already been struck Carl and as you know death always trumps life...
M.S Morrison
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I became a guppy because behind the glass and the water i see everything in a really
warped way and it amuses me...M.S.Morrison
There is no place for men to hide
We brought it upon ourselves with that macho disguise…M.S.Morrison
I Feel Like The S Just Fell Off My Chest
Its frustrating and its cold
I am 55 years old… only half of my life
I knew some days would be like this
I used to smoke when I got wired
Does any body know what to do
When you feel a little too tied to move on
The sun will come up
But will I be ready for what comes
What was the answer… I think I forgot the question
I am no longer hungry and want to rest
The only thing I know is that I love you
And I feel like the S just fell off my chest
M.S. Morrison
The Diner
There was a time as a child
When I imagined a world upside down
Where down was up and square was round
Now when I get all dressed up
and walk over to the Diner
and I order my eggs and cheese
My desire rises
Maybe for the waitress maybe for the hash browns
Maybe for a long quiet sultry afternoon
Maybe for the cold cold rain pouring down
M.S. Morrison
Does a president who over war presides deserve the Nobel Peace Prize...
Nobel Prize
They went to war thinking they could win
They found the show was bigger than them
Then the president said… and 5 more died
They learned to dodge and weave and hide…
Brave men good men died and died and died
Then the president said and 12 more died
They were walking through the villages handing out food
The people were asking them about their president
and that Nobel prize and if it would keep them all warm
and fed and alive…
M.S.Morrison
Michael S. Morrison come on momma theres another one down and you know we got
to help him or maybe his family cause the government ain't the blue navy and you
know it ain't the military and won't fight but every other enemy...
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Michael S. Morrison The word is soldier and it is him and her...
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Michael S. Morrison Or Her and Him...
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Michael S. Morrison Let's hope they don't die tonight...
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Sometimes When i Think That i Know What i Am Doing
For sometimes when i think that i know what i am doing i am on the wrong road or
going down a one way street and do not know a goal that would satisfy my soul...as if
a soul could be satisfied...
M.S. Morrison
What We Don’t Forget
Much of life is a memory
What we don’t forget
And what we don’t put in the back of our mind
Is usually lost with time
What we don’t forget
What we don’t forget
Isn’t lost yet…
M.S. Morrison
And Did What We Pleased
She told me I wouldn’t be her last
But she said she would be more than happy
To help me make the time pass
So I looked past her loveliness
And she looked past my dreams
And we emptied out our loneliness
And did as we pleased…
M.S. Morrison
Whorehouse
Right now
politics is like a whorehouse
everybody wants to look up your dress
and cop a feel for free…
M.S Morrison
Passing Memory
I wish you were here
To share with me
The sorrow and the fun
I wish you were here
But you are dead
But not to me
I still carry you
In the deep softness
Of my passing memory…
M.S. Morrison
The more I live life the less I am immune to it... M.S.Morrison
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Love Frees The Mind
Love frees the mind
Love frees up time
Maybe your grandmother
Holds your hand
When you are five
Maybe she holds your hand
When she dies
Love frees up time
Love frees the mind
M.S Morrison
TIMES
My mother used to lock us outside
In Florida in the summer
So we could enjoy the sunshine
But we were bored
And started banging on the back screen door
Whining about how hot it was
I am sure we will miss her when she is gone
But back then we were just bored and whining…
M.S.Morrison
Then I Had All The Doors Removed
I once hired a Socialist to work in a Capitalist environment...
I also hired a Capitalist to work in a Socialist environment
They got so confused...
The Capitalist would come to work thru the Socialist door
The Socialist would come to work thru the Capitalist door
I finally fired both of them and hired a 56 year old grandmother from Iowa
who was a sciocapitalist...
Then I had all the doors removed.
M.S. Morrison
I used to think I was a Communist; I even bought myself a manifesto. You might think
it is weird for a Communist to buy a manifesto, but I have found that if you want a
really good manifesto, then it is worth every dollar that you pay for it...you get what
you pay for... especially in a manifesto.
If as Democrats we cannot support dissent, then what can we support...
M.S. Morrison
Conservatives are not all Republicans, but the Left sure wishes we were...
M.S. Morrison
To my Republican friends with whom I have had a beer or two:
Being a Democrat is a genetic disease and to be a conservative (Blue Dog) Democrat
is even a rarer disease; Somewhere along the line of winning a negative lottery where
you cash in the ticket and owe the government a million dollars.
No one likes you, everyone suspects you, and its almost like you used the word
moderate in mixed company, or even worse said you were not so sure about Obama's
politics...
I have said that...And I will stand up to the coming storm because i am a Blue Dog
Democrat...Forever.
The Democrat's complain when the government works and when the government
doesn't work and I am still a Democrat...Confusing isn't it.
M.S. Morrison
Just So We Are Clear About Capitalism
When a woman brings me some entertainment
And i think she needs some baby diapers now
I try to find some thing of value that I can sell
And make money so that when she comes back
And she will... I am still there...
M.S. Morrison
I don't know what to say: maybe it trancends politics or at least equals it...
M.S.Morrison
Without The Blue Dogs
Without the blue dogs
Sniffing around the greenery
No one would know
That the liberals have not figured out
How to pee in the pot...
M.S.Morrison
Dear: Supreme Hypocritical Ignorance...
Go Directly to hell
...M.S. Morrison
i used to dream
i used to dream of something better
i used to dance with myself
i used to put a little money on the shelf
i used to work for the future
i used to get paid
Before the government took over
Back when we used to get privately laid...
Note to the left...("We"... meaning my wife and me.)
M.S.Morrison
Without the Blue dogs sniffing around the greenery
no one would know that the liberals had not figured out how to pee in the pot...
M.S.Morrison
Do you not speak blue dog...
well in this case you might want to learn to speak give a shit...
you do know that we need health care.
We might need to act like we understand the Care in healthcare
So maby we really reach out.
This is not the pretend media thing we have been doing
But walking across the street to the neighbors
Who we claim to despise
And really asking
How we can help to positivily change their lives...
LOVE
I care what you say and the enemy is not you...
But lately you are pissing me off...
Dammit.. every time I turn the other cheek
you find a brand new way to slap it...
but I hope it won't be this way forever
Oh come on baby I didnt mean it...
M.S. Morrison
Then doctor doctor doctor I said
why is the music running thu my head
and why does it remember every word I ever said...
M.S.Morrison
"One monkey don't stop the show"...Gillian Welch
I met Gillian in Centennial park in the 70's...playing her guitar for quarters
It might have been the eighties...
And she might have been playing for dollars...
M.S. Morrison
There are poor losers and poor winners...both end up in the same boat...the one that is
sinking.
The democrats have cheered for failure for 8 years and now they continue to cheer for
the failure of the people who disagree with them. They attempt to use the press to
make them themselves look better; but they have failed and are about to have a failed
presidency if they continue to fail to include those outside of their political comfort
zone. The power of the democratic party has always been inclusion... there are poor
losers and poor winners...both end up in the same boat...the one that is sinking.
Upon The Fire
I live on the island of Merlot
far far away from a long time ago
And when i wake up
If i do i always think of you
and i always say
i wounder what she is doing today
because i am hopelessly broken
and today i have no desire
to put another log
upon that god damn fire
M.S.Morrison
Wipe that smile off their face…for me.
In West Virginia we used to float toy wood boats down the creek
And throw rocks at each other to save our own self respect
We were the ones who would go off to war
For the same reasons
Even if we were told it was a suckers game
Because our red neck grand mothers were so proud of us
And with their eyes would say
go back out there and wipe that smile off their face…for me.
M.S. Morrison
What Will Help Out
What is the crucial answer
What will help us out
What will save America
Without a dought
A little faith
A little kindness
A little hope
A little love
And maybe a little grace
from God above
M.S.Morrison
A Little Faith (And)
I shake my fist at the darkness
And I gather all my friends
And we protect ourselves
And we put a little faith in the future
High upon a shelf
And take care of our children
And have a little faith
M.S. Morrison
Don't wait for something else it's all right in front of you...
M.S.Morrison...and it's all for free...
Love Is More Than A Memory
I never thought that I would be looking for love
Don’t know where I lost it
Did I leave it in my car
Maybe I just misplaced it
It could not have gone far
Saw it yesterday boy it looked so good
I need to find it now so I can feel like I should
Yea love is more than a memory and I need it now
If I can just remember the who, why and how
If I could just see my way clear
find my own way
And love the love I loved yesterday
M.S. Morrison
Politics is like a bath tub ring you wipe it off but it still keeps you company...
M.S. Morrison
Sex is only good between two people willing to make mistakes...M.S. Morrison
Dial 1-800 Mistake...
Sometimes life works fine even when it's broken...M.S.Morrison
If life will just forgive me and you…
If you could see what I see
You would see laughter
You would see peace
You would see the beautiful ugliness
That is the framework of life
You would see the lovers in the park
Steaming up the windows
Trying to wipe that last bit of loneliness away
Turning to each other
Saying with their lips what lovers say
I love you better now than I did yesterday
And we can all stay that way
If life will just forgive me and you…
M.S Morrison
Perfect Truth
If I could come up with a secret formula
For the perfect truth it would be...
One part You...
And one part me...
M.S. Morrison
One more kiss before I go...
Spin The Wheel
No one tells you what to think
So you don’t have anyone to blame
You make your choices
You spin the wheel
And in the end
The results are about the same
M.S. Morrison
To Where I began
There were days that I could fly all by myself
To the moon and back and I was my own hero
And if I needed to love someone
I would start with myself
But now I am as strong as stone
And as lonely as a cold wind
So I am hoping I can get back again
To where I began and smile…
M.S. Morrison
You Are The Best I Will Ever Do
I met up with my future
I met up with my past
Then I realized nothing ever lasts
All I hear is laughter when I decide
To hide what I can’t understand
But do I love you hell yes I do
Why because and even more
I will always live at your door
I will always live at loves door
You are the best I will ever do
M.S. Morrison
To Make Her Mind (mine)
I left her on a street in southern Arizona
And I am sure she took the first truck out
She was a well built girl with bigger dreams
Than my mind could figure out
And I still wish I knew what she was about
But she was my favorite girl at the time
And I would have given everything to make her mine
M.S.Morrison
Life...It's all lies; and the rest of it is lies about lies...
But I am not really sure about that...
Over Time...
Life...It's all lies; and the rest of it is lies about lies...
The more time passes, the more the truth looks like a child's left behind toy...
And if you were wondering...that means you can do anything with the truth, and still
getaway with calling it the truth...Over time
Truth over time...divided by ???
M.S. Morrison
What Does War Cost
It costs everything
It costs more than we can believe
It costs people
Families
Like yours
And their's
There is depravity in war
There is loss
The people involved never recover
War scars the generations who come after
Makes them prisoners
Of the darkness that fell upon their doorstep
M.S. Morrison
"Obama told “60 Minutes” last week that if a health care bill passes, “I own it.” But, if it
fails, the Republicans will own it."
Does Obama Hope the bill fails so he can claim victory?
And then still do nothing.
More political wrangling more social stupidly...
And in the process people are dying...
It's time to see that politics will not solve this problem. No one wins.
This is not a game of chess.
Lets stop going back and forth trying to get the advantage.
There is no advantage.
People are dying and we all know it.
It does take a spine to stand up and take the abuse from both sides.
We must reach beyond politics in order to find a solution.
That is all I am saying.
Don't chew me up God don't spit me out...
M.S. Morrison
The True Revolution is where two people come together and agree...
Why does a focus on the past prevent us from creating a new future...
M.S. Morrison
The true genius is to meld the minds of more compassionate men and to use that to
bend the will of freedoms enemies... M.S Morrison
I have learned one thing: that when I feel most right i am most wrong...
M.S. Morrison
I want to hold up a mirror to society and see myself in it.
But only if i can disrupt the outcome...
M.S. Morrison
What Can We Do
We all need healthcare. If the current administration does not have the political will to
provide it then we will vote for some one else next time; and again and again, until our
mothers and fathers and children and brothers and sisters and neighbors are
covered...Damn the cost. If we cannot take care of ourselves as a nation what can we
do?
And I will add that the cost of insurance should not be shifted to those who work for a
living...
The Poor should be supported under the Medicare system and the standards should
be same as the National Healthcare System that we will develop.
National Healthcare will be about everyone getting the best Healthcare that America
can provide.
I said Damn the cost...Well there is no cost when We are a healthy nation...If we allow
family's to subtract from their tax liability any and every heath care cost including
co-payments for health care then we help them to become more productive.
While we are not going to resolve the discussion here
We must understand that our political power should remain in reserve.
We must be willing to vote for solid plans that have a
reasonable expectation of positive results;
And only support those willing to take on political risks.
Our future is at stake.
If you don't think so wake up and look around you...
Right Direction?
I think we are moving in the right direction on health care if the president and the
congress does what it says it wants to do. We need some policing of insurance
company polices as well as more competition between insurance companies. We
need to create a national health care insurance system instead of the state by state
system we have now that actually reduces competition. We need to eliminate
Preexisting conditions as an excuse for not paying claims and of course there are
many others needs that must be addressed. I now believe that President Obama may
be able to change health care for the better. But no one will be totally satisfied with
the solution. So are the ways of politics...
M.S. Morrison
I remain your dedicated local Blue Dog...
"We cant allow ourselves to be discredited by our own fringe."
William F. Buckley
But sometimes the fringe is to our credit...
M.S.Morrison
I am A daydream Believer
Thank You sleepy jean...
Flow
We are not quick drying cement
We will not dry overnight
We are fluid in our life
Made of water
And we flow with every desire...
M.S. Morrison
Please don't stop me I am Having a moment...
Michael S. Morrison
I wright and I cry...
Michael S. Morrison
For our children...
Our race is black and white and will be resolved in color and light...
M.S. Morrison
If you look into my mind you will see a kaleidoscope of time...
M.S. Morrison
If we aren't people of color then who the hell are we...
M.S. Morrison
I am a double dog dare ya
Circle ya and square ya...
M.S.Morrison
I live where Giants are standing on the shoulders of Giants I live in America
Hard To Let Go...
I met a woman in a topless bar
who said she liked her occupation
and had no excuse
and she definitely
had all the equipment for the abuse
She said she was getting a PhD in sexual science
and could I help her out
Well we did the best I could
and she said I knew you would
and in the end I hope we both were pleased
Then she said will you answer a few questions
about this wonderful psycho sexual disease
She said do you love me and I said no
But I told her there was a moment
that it was hard to let go...
M.S. Morrison
Hard To Let Go...
I met a woman in a topless bar
who said she liked her occupation
and had no excuse
and she definitely
had the equipment for the abuse
She said she was getting a PhD in sexual science
and could I help her out
Well we did the best I could
and she said I knew you would
and in the end I hope we both were pleased
Then she said will you answer a few questions
about this wonderful psycho sexual disease
She said do you love me
and I said no
but I told her there was a moment
When it was hard to let go...
That was hard to let go...
That it was hard to let go...
M.S. Morrison
Hard To Let Go...
I met a woman in a topless bar
who said she liked her occupation
and had no excuse
and she definitely
had the equipment for the abuse
She said she was getting a PhD in sexual science
and could I help her out
Well we did the best I could
and she said I knew you would
and in the end I hope we both were pleased
Then she said will you answer a few questions
about this wonderful psycho sexual disease
She said do you love me
and I said no
but I told her there was a moment
that it was hard to let go...
M.S. Morrison
LOVE
I love so I love I love so I am love
and I love again love again love again love again
So I am Love
And I am left to love love love again…
And if the fucking bastards won’t love
Then I am going to be kicking some Mo Fo loving ass.
M.S. Morrison
Oh Lord
O lord what does it mean
I Have been there a time or two
What can you say
That will make me feel
Whole as a person today...
M.S.Morrison
Say Hello
Say hello to what you are used to
Say goodby to the past
Maybe some one hurt you
But the pain will not last...
M.S Morrison
I GUESS (do without Time)
I guess if I said enough the target would become clear
Then I could fire my complicated arrow and become a genius in you mind
and we could Love each other and take the time to make some plans for the future...
and in the interim life might be kind...
And then we could do without Time.
M.S. Morrison
Going away..Going away..I allways see you the best when I am going away.
But I am Coming back someday... Coming back ...Coming back Someday.
M.S.Morrison
Because we loved him
And in his later years he was constantly passing away
Almost dying as he talked
like there was nothing he could say that would stop the talk
He used to mumble stuff about freedom like he owned it
And he used to mumble stuff about peace
And when we found him dead in his apartment
We felt a kind of release because we loved him
John Lennon 2000 Years Later...
M.S.Morrison
Ranie Afternoon
It’s going to be a rainie afternoon
I hope you are coming home soon
I was so sad when you went away
They should never have convicted you
Just because you fired three shots
When one bullet would do
M.S.Morrison
Lost Goverment Weekend
They put us all in golden clothing and act like we is the sacrificial lamb
but it is our future and all we see is a mobile home and a lost government weekend...
M.S. Morrison
Took Me With A Smile
I once was troubled
I was sad
my dog was lonely for a smile
And then a neighbor Came by
And we talked for quite a while
And I gave the dog a bone
And she said I like you and I always have
So will you be with me a while
Then she took me with a smile
M.S.Morrison
Mr. Carter:
You lived in a world of black and white
But all the shades of grey are seeping in
Would you hold us prisoner now
To what the past will bring
We know what is coming because it is all ready here
There is a racist in the doorway
but the color is not clear
M.S. Morrison
Someday we will all be laughing on the Champs-Elysees.
M.S. Morrison
Those who who constantly stir up shit will will eventually live in it...
M.S. Morrison
The Generations Who Trusted Me
In the fading light of what I thought would be
I am lost and don’t know where to go
My people look to me to keep them safe and warm
And I will do the best that I can And I will win
but I need even my enemies now
To save the generations who trusted me
M.S. Morrison
I am from West Virginia by way of Long Beach New York by way of West Palm Beach
Florida but spent 29 years right here.
My degree in social work does not qualify me as a hater of the lower classes
My mother and father were poor as church mice when they moved to New York City
to get a college education.
We are the result of the American dream and only wish for others to have the
opportunity to follow.
But I will Say this; I have run a business for 16 years.
I write paychecks, pay taxes, and try to stay in business on a daily basis.
I don't believe in spending money that you don't have.
I don't believe in writing checks your butt can't cash.
YOU USED TO BE MINE
I USED TO BE BEAUTIFUL
A LONG TIME AGO
I WAS TO EARLY FOR THE FEATURE
TO LATE FOR THE SHOW
EVERYTHING WAS WONDERFULL
IN THAT PLACE AND TIME
I USED TO BE BEAUTIFUL
YOU USED TO BE MINE…
M.S. MORRISON
Don’t Wait
Don’t wait for life to get better
Make it better and improve it
Don’t wait to enjoy life
Enjoy life now
Don’t wait to feel better
Take a walk in a beautiful place
Eat what makes you feel good
Do what makes you feel good
Don’t wait for a better future
Don’t wait for forgiveness
Don’t wait for more time
Don’t wait to enjoy life
M.S Morrison
I PUT ALL MY MEMORIES IN ONE POT... THE BLUE ONE WITH THE WHITE ENAMEL
INTERIOR... M.S. MORRISON
Before You Cleared The Chute
When I met you
You took me back
Saw you later with the pack
They tried to cut you from the heard
Never saw you after that
You always were a gentleman
Even if you were a her
With a fine line
Such a little girl
And a woman to boot
You were on the bucking bull
Before you cleared the chute
M.S. Morrison
Tell Me Why
You want to read my mind
Tell me why
Tell me why
You want to love me
Tell me why
Tell me why
Now you want to leave me
Because I make you cry
Please tell me why
Tell me why
Tell me why
Tell me whyyyyyyyyy…
Oh God tell me why
M.S. Morrison
Sometimes
Some times you change you’re mind
Because you found a wish from the wishing well
I’ve always done what works
Mostly what works for me
But I can’t help worrying about the children and the mothers to be
Yea sometimes you change your mind
And for extra measure
Maybe you change the times
M.S. Morrison
In The Trees
In the trees there is a song
Long and forlorn
There is a song
In the dark snow
Where you go to die
There is a dark song
That you sing till the light is gone
Till the night is gone
And you die
M.S. Morrison
Firing an arrow at 200 mph through an apple on your lovers head is a lot like sex... isn't
it.
Of My Life
When I am standing
Yea Yea Yea
When I am standing
All Alone
So far from Home
In the great unknown
Of my life
M.S. Morrison
On The Sly
When I looked out on my patio on the fourteenth floor
At the smoking smog from the night before
And saw my girlfriend out of the corner of my eye
Giving the bellman a fifty on the sly
I stood up and I said Id rather be you’re junkie than end up dead
Id rather be you’re junkie
Id rather be you’re junkie
Id rather be your cash for clunkers clunkie
Than end up dead
M.S. Morrison
This Is America
If there were not Blacks and Whites
There would be lights and darks
We are all people of color
Blues and greens
Democrats and Republicans
Big and Tall
Winner takes all
This is America
M.S. Morrison
Last Music Store
I’ve been living down at the last music store
A place that could have been less
but it could have been more
Waiting for the day when the music dies
And we walk away from those stolen lies
Do you care if I write a song
And will you help me sing it all day long
I’ve been living down at the last music store
And I am lonely and I don’t want to cry alone anymore
M.S.Morrison
We Believe
Some times we believe
In what we can not conceive
Holy Mothers marching before us
Holy Mothers moving on
Holy Mothers shaking their fingers
Quietly saying this day is done…
M.S. Morrison
Heaven Sent
You say you’ve found a new religion
and you're preaching the gospel now
You want everyone to do the right thing
But they just don’t know how
You know its so logical
And because the answer is clear
It makes you want to jump behind the wheel
and steer,steer,steer
Why arent the sinners listening
Why don’t they repent
Why don’t they know your gift is heaven sent
M.S. Morrison
The Smart President
Yea everyone was lying all the people that disagreed
They only thought the wrong way
and were lost in their certainty
They would not listen to the smart president
Who could read their pea brain minds
Because his wisdom was heaven sent
And he memorized all his lines and on the TV he looked good
And he didn’t understand why he was so misunderstood
M.S. Morrison
Van Jones...Van Morrison... Chevy Van...wow everything is connected...
M.S. Morrison
Even a great idea that helps a few can become oppressive when made into a public policy...
M.S. Morrison
What is an opinion except a judgment...
M.S. Morrison
Must we now have to pass a truth checkpoint every time we have an opinion
M.S. Morrison
Perhaps the educated thing to do is to jealousy protect free speech as suspect as it is to us all...
M.S. Morrison
Perhaps we should distrust rashness, zealotry, fury and political enthusiasm.
And we should remember that we are all people of color.
M.S. Morrison
What happens when a minority has a vested interest
in maintaing the idea of inequality...
We Will Make It
We live alone in this little house of stone
In a neighborhood where no one comes to see us
On a pension check so sparse that no one really cares but we will make it
We turned old and grey and the kids they moved away
They sometimes call to see how we are doing
Well I say we are doing fine our kids they treat us kind
And when they ask I tell them we will make it
We will make it
We will make it
We will make it
M.S. Morrison
Jon Stewart Does not mow his lawn and lives in a mansion
So we all know how he feels our pain
He feels our pain at a distance...
M.S. Morrison
Can We Be A Conservative Democrat
Can we be Conservative and still take care of the environment
Can we be Conservative and still provide great health care for our citizens
Can we be Conservative and still make sure everyone has a voice in our government
Can we be conservative and vigilant about freedom
Can we be conservative and still be a Democrat
I Know we can…
M.S. Morrison
It's a hard thing to do to move from trying to win the discussion to just trying to
understand.
M.S. Morrison
So Much For Sin
Its not often I don’t know what to say
I have always had a voice
And God knows
My Grandmother worried
That I would not fit in
So much for God
So much for sin
M.S Morrison
Why was I there
When there was a bad decision
Why did I have to call the police
Diagnose a terminal disease
Save a child with just one arm
Protect an entire country from harm
Why was I there
The only thing I remember
is what my grandfather said
You better make a decision
before everyone ends up dead
M.S.Morrison
Nobody’s Business
Well its nobody’s business
nobody’s business
nobody’s business
But mine
I pay rent
So I have the time
I live here
and make the rules
So you can grow up with love
Thank the lord above
No matter what
I will keep trying
So that it’s nobody’s business
nobody’s business
But mine
M.S.Morrison
When I was a social worker I met and tried to understand these militant parents who
thought I was trying to change them and I found that the more I gave up the better we
got along...
When We Were Young
When we were young we danced all night
Drank champagne in the morning light
We went out looking for beauty and never felt pain
When we were young there was no defeat
We won every game
When we were young
When we were young
When we were young
M.S. Morrison
Its Real Cold Out There
This morning I was thinking as I some times do
Thought about the poor people and what we could do
Thought about the rich and I though about Jesus
Now I don’t really want to bring this up
But I really don’t think Jesus changed any of us except for a few
Yea were still the same and it’s the same old game
Me and you talking about what we will do to save us
And as we walk down any street
we see the haves and the have not’s
and the wind blows cold on our back
And I ask what would Jesus do
And I think he would say cover up
Cause its real cold out there…
M.S. Morrison
I believe in a practical Jesus who is a good friend of the Dali lama...
y'all are welcome to the church of the open mind... we've already paid our dues.
Free Will
Humankind pushed about by the material winds
Sails on a great sea of common consciousness
Holding the rudder of infinite possibility
M.S Morrison
Infinite Rain
The circle is constantly returning
From whence it came
Playing in the infinite rain
Where theory becomes wet
M.S. Morrison
Angry Minority
Now we get to become an angry
Well armed minority
that gets into everybody’s face
I just can’t wait…
M.S. Morrison
Framed in my distant dream
A pink cloud in the evening sky
Made me feel you were near
Drifting against the robins egg blue
Framed by the darkened maples
I hold the moment close in my mind
Feeling warm and good
Knowing that you are near
Feeling your touch on my arm
Feeling the warm breeze of your charm
I closed my eyes and wished you were here
Recalling the dappled green of yesteryear
Recalling the fading scene
Framed in my distant dream
M.S.Morrison
Standing Stick
Black on black
White on white
The gray card
Falls in between
Shadows cast
Across stones
With daylight
Never broken
Standing stick
In the river
Shadows
Circle
Never
Stopping
M.S. Morrison
South America
Were all going to South America
Yea we are leaving town
Were not moving up
Were moving down
We are moving south of the border
To a quieter place
And what is to come
Were moving out
We don’t want to go
Sailing for A New Earth
And a better place to live
Were all going to South America
M.S. Morrison
What Do I Do
I’ve got doubts ringing in my head
I don’t believe what the doctor said
I am lost and cold and I may be dead in a week or two
What do I do God
What do I do
I am a lover and I am a friend
What do I do when it all ends
Tell me God what do I do…
M.S. Morrison
Heaven is found where life is but a dream
M.S Morrison
So Lonely For Bridges
Who Built the wall between us
Seven feet thick
We mixed the mortar
Quick drying cement
Who laid the first stone
Calculated the distance
We did in equal measure
Now we are so safe
So lonely for bridges
M.S. Morrison
Guns Of Freedom
As I wait in the dawns early light
I can hear the guns of freedom
They are protecting all Americans
For the hopes we have for the future
So that we may live a better life tomorrow
M.S.Morrison
Tonight
I am alone tonight
I am alone tonight
And everything’s right
everything’s right
everything’s right
Tonight
M.S. Morrison
We Were Only Dreaming
London Bridges falling down
The train will take you round
To a single room
On the other side of town
I wrote this tune
While you were softly sleeping
Along the crowded streets
Where we will one day meet
On an empty bus just the two of us
We will be there
The red sun slowly bleeding
And if one brick should fall
If one of us should hit the wall
We both will say
That we were only dreaming
M.S. Morrison
I can hear the dog barking
You came home
To make my misery
Knowing how I cried
Banging doors in the kitchen
Enough to wake me from my dreams
Where I was happy
I can still hear the dog barking
Out beside your car
With the dented fender
M.S Morrison
Mary
They took the Christmas decorations down today
Put baby Jesus away and some wise men
There used to be an old lady
Sleeping in the plastic straw
Hoping to be saved
Her name was Mary
This muddy spot once her home is now her grave
And is filling up with snow
They tore down the stable and took the painted donkey away
Now Mary has somewhere else to go
No longer tormented by the cold
Another place to stay…
M.S. Morrison
Too Much Light
Too much light reveals nothing
No darkness
Or shadow
Blackness it’s own image
Never clearer than tomorrows wishing
M.S. Morrison
Nasty Stains
Woman smiles on TV screen
What once so dirty now so clean
Blue soap powder killing germs
Removing stains from fishing worms
Little children with plastic guns
With their little wars to run
The bad guys always look so mean
The good guys how they stay so clean
As they make their hit and run
Faces on the nightly news
Dirty kids who have no shoes
All their guns have Russian names
Making for some nasty stains
M.S. Morrison
I wrote this poem in the mid eighties...nothing has changed
Under The Sink
“Its under the sink dear !”
His hand reaching for the drain cleaner
Brushes the warm matted fur
Of a Norwegian sea rat
Dead drunk on dish-washing liquid
Whose ship sailed three days ago…
M.S. Morrison
Life
Where is the ritual
The tribal creed
Uttered in secret tongues
Where is the secret oath of loyalty
Sealed in crimson blood
Bring me a skinny chicken
Flapping its snowy wings
To save its life
Not some Chicken McNugget
M.S. Morrison
Before My Demise
I am looking for the lines on my face
The overhang in the eyes
The whitening and the ruddiness of the cheeks
All Irish traits of old age
I hope that I can welcome them
But not soon
Not soon.. not right now
I have bigger fish to fry
Towering dreams to build
Kingdoms to rule and unite
Before my demise
M.S.Morrison
Edward
Edward was left with a great legacy
He almost squandered it
But he knew that he must try harder
He did the unpopular and the other things
Became the voice of the poor and the sick
Edward in the end was what we wish we all could be
M.S. Morrison
Weeping sky
Meets roofline
Sharp black smoke
Rising up
With red sun dreaming
M.S. Morrison
The page so boldly…
I examined life
The pages were torn
I turned the leaves
By the ragged edges
The ink was smeared
By the tears of others
Who could not find
A comforting passage
Some words were clear
Others broken and without meaning
I turned the pages and wept
The last yellowed page was blank before me
I laughed at the tiny ant that walked across
the page so boldly…
M.S. Morrison
Hey Blondie
Hey Blondie you were holy every Sunday
But you’re dress was soiled by Monday
As they watched you play by play
Hey Blondie you gave them what they asked for
But you always tried to be more
As you wiped the tears away
You glittered in the light
Made your dreams dance in the night
But you didn’t want to be loved that way
Oh Blondie…
You knew the pieces didn’t fit
But your body wouldn’t quit
So we watched you as your life slipped away
You were a sacrificial lamb to the cravings of every man
The victim of a dream that ran away
Oh Blondie…
The Marilyn you died for was the prisoner of a golden door
With only one escape
Hey Blondie…
M.S. Morrison
Michael S. Morrison: a work in progress
Born in 1954 in a small river town in Montgomery West Virginia to a teacher and a
nurse, Michael soon moved to New York City and then to Long Beach Long Island,
New York, where his love of the sea began.
He spent summers at Hawks Nest Dam in West Virginia and also in the flatlands of
South Carolina and began his personal education in southern culture there at the age
of six.
When the family moved again to Fort Pierce Florida and then to West Palm Beach
Florida he became bonded with the salt water. Michael began his poetry at the age of
twelve.
Michael was involved in a catastrophic motorcycle accident in 1971, which left him
paralyzed from the waist down. After spending two years in rehabilitation he walked
out and went home.
He is still partially paralyzed and walks though force of will. (well on a daily basis its
not that dramatic)
Married at Nineteen, divorced at 27, he moved to Murfreesboro Tennessee and
entered Middle Tennessee State University where he received a degree in Social
Work.
After one year as a state social worker, he became a manager for the Walden book
company and then opened his own business in 1993. Married to a dedicated southern
girl from small town Tennessee, Michael is the president of Digital Planet a new and
used media store in Murfreesboro Tennessee.
A Blue (Double) dog Democrat; he is currently reviving his poetry and irritating his
friends and enemies.
The Horrors Of Public Health Care (I am already dead)
He pushes the call button but nobody is there
To save the older patient laying next to him
He is saying if only the public knew
The horrors of public health care
He laid there forever watching the nightly news
They were talking about the money they saved
Not talking about the lives they lose
And the man on TV said its better
And the man on TV said its good
And the man on the TV talked just like he should
Then in that dirty government hospital room
He pulled out the rusty IV and got out of his bed
He stood naked before God
Held up his one finger salute
And screamed I am already dead…
M.S. Morrison
I am ok with my weaknesses it's my strengths that I am worried about...
The Incumbent party
It’s so simple when you know what the truth is
Like pulling the trigger on a long gun
And after a lot of thought and much research
We have determined that we are right and you are wrong
Sincerely, The Incumbent Party
We do not follow a straight line we follow the idea of a straight line
M.S. Morrison
LAWS OF SLIPPAGE
1. In order for a system to function it must maintain an undetermined amount of
slippage
2. Slippage cannot be created it can only be maintained
3.Slippage exists to balance the inefficiencies of a system
4. Slippage occurs in the microcosms of a system to the systems benefit
5. Slippage extends the useful lifetime of a system
6.Slippage is what Slippage does
Smile
I get lost in your dark arching eyebrows
Then I smile and become content
Listening to whatever you want to talk about
Listening to you speak what I think
Forgetting what you don’t want me to remember
M.S. Morrison
A Rose For Jesus
When you move the Jell-O shifts in my bowl
Gravity pulls upward… my hair parts
Just like the Red Sea did
In that book that gathers more dust than any other
Words for better people than me
You move and I believe
Hands folded at the table
Dear Jesus:
I will say my prayers from now on until Tuesday
Please pass no judgment until then
P.S. The man on the news called it an earthquake
But we know better don’t we
M.S. Morrison
A Peaceful Solution
He died somewhere today
His face flashed on the evening news
From half a world away
And everyone was taking about a peaceful solution
And everyone was waiting for the music to begin
Then the Star Spangled Banner echoed in…
And the first pitch was thrown
And his face flashed somewhere else again
M.S. Morrison
Antique Satin Robe
Colors running in my window
Melting crayons on the stove
Cooking up a blank white mixture
In my antique satin robe
There are feelings without texture
Like polished crystal smooth and clear
Like the vision of a lover
Never far away or near
There’s a coldness in the kitchen
That illuminates the soul
Turning colors into crystal
When there’s nowhere else to go
All the moments lost in mixture
Like the colors on the stove
When yellowed time becomes a fixture
On my antique satin robe…
M.S. Morrison
In The Name Of Love
In the name of love with a promise made
That they would always be faithful to the end
In the name of love a new life began in the name of love
As the years sweep by we turn the page
Find the places where their mistakes were made
In the name of love there is a price that’s paid in the name of love
In the name of love they got old and grey
They are together now because they stayed that way
In the name of love with a promise saved
In the name of love. In the name of love
M.S. Morrison
Our own decision
At best we see life in small snippets
We don’t always understand what we see
But we want to see more and more and more
Because this is no time for inhibitions
We are animals who have the gift of language
We know how to attract others by our movement
We know how to give life and we know how to kill
Our ideas about conservation are somewhat unique in our history
When we seek to save biological legacies from destruction we transcend what is
human
We look beyond today and even beyond tomorrow thru the window of our souls
Trying to save ourselves spiritually by saving the biological content of earth
What tomorrow brings is our own decision
M.S. Morrison
Destiny Of Chance
On Peg legs Pirates dance
Spinning circles round a destiny of chance
She loves me loves me not
They fire their guns in the air
With targets never clear
They sail around
Do pirates really care
To ever settle down
In houses sharp and square
With peace forever near
or worship in a building with a mast like spire
Holding hands to utter Holy sounds with choir
Not as long as their world is spinning round
M.S. Morrison
Listen closely to what your enemies say about you and fire your your arrow straight
and true.
M.S. Morrison
Eyes So Wild
Long ago when I was a child
I used to look in the mirror
And smile with my eyes so wild
Some times when no ones around
I look in the mirror again
Then in comes the child
With his eyes so wild
He’s my child now
M.S. Morrison
One Mans Truth Is Another Mans Lie... M.S. Morrison
The Truth About The Truth
Do you know what the truth is
You write about it
You talk about it
But you don’t know what it is
And if you do
Tell me the truth
Then tell me the truth about the truth
M.S. Morrison
Nobody Knows Me
Nobody knows me right now …
Nobody knows me right now …
If I get famous promise not to have a cow
Cause nobody knows me
Nobody knows me
When we went downtown I met a girl who thought that she knows me
but I told her no one knows me right now
No nobody knows me
Nobody knows me
Nobody knows me
Right now…
M.S. Morrison
Because of what he promised
He ran against the mayor on a platform of change
He won by a landslide now he sits in city hall
At his first city meeting there was an unruly crowd
Because of what he promised you know the change and all
It seems what everyone wanted was different in their minds
What would save one would might cause the other pain
So he had them all arrested and he put them all in jail
Then he called up the governor to file a complaint:
He said you just cant please them all no matter what you say
After a short silence he said governor are you there?
The governor said you got to be careful with peoples lives
and be careful what you promise them
they are sons and daughters of husbands and wives
and significant others young and old
Forget about your political designs and do what works
So he let them all out of jail and sent them all home
He had a new meeting down at city hall
And he let every body talk and he listened to them all
And listened and did what he could do
And became more careful about what he promised them
But they were all still angry about the jail time
M.S. Morrison
The story is not over yet...
AND I WILL DEFEND MYSELF
If you cross me once I will probably ignore it
maybe even twice if you are lucky
But if you insist we will go to war
and my Cherokee and Apache blood will boil together
And you will loose
…it is not because I am never wrong
It is because my spirit has been here for over a thousand years
and I will defend myself
M.S. Morrison
That 1992
He almost bought a car
But the deal fell through
It was that clunker thing
The government paid more
But He couldn’t pay enough
For that 1992
More to come…
M.S. Morrison
They Called Themselves Americans
There was an angry mob and they would not listen
They would not sit down before the kings men
They were dangerous revolutionaries
They called themselves Americans
M.S. Morrison
My Sisters and my Brothers stand with me for the freedom which no one gives and is
only gained through struggle and enjoyed in peace... M.S. Morrison
I AM A NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN...
I come from surf culture: if you understand it you understand me…
Life should be naturally difficult...
Good Poetry asks many more questions than it answers...
M.S. Morrison
I have a liberal side and a conservative side at war with each other...soon both will win
M.S. Morrison
When he could afford a tree
He burned a log in the fireplace
and thought about those green house gasses
Then he looked at the children smiling and warm
And he knew that when he got a new job
and got the gas turned on
He would plant a tree in the back yard
When he could afford a tree…
M.S. Morrison
Paper Flowers
On my way to freedom
When I thought I had it made
I forgot to smell the flowers
Lost their scent along the way
Now I miss the sweet gardenias
And the pecan trees outside
My toes ach for the wet sand
With the water running by
Now life moves a little slower
On a Sunday afternoon
I got what I went after
Paper flowers in the room
There’s a pretty senorita
To ask me if I feel alright
A nurse who rustles softly
As she turns out all the lights
M.S. Morrison
The Doll
Wrapped in blue cellophane
Ordered through the Daily News
In a printed dress so plain
With golden hair and white plastic shoes
M.S. Morrison
Plumb
Plumb told you it’s leaves lying in the snow
By a mountain standing wider than the clouds
M.S. Morrison
On His Pale White Cheeks
Love like a Pearl handled gun
Slips from her hand..
A cold hearted one
Lipstick on his pale white cheeks
M.S. Morrison
Making Way
Standing near ashore
Sails ascending
There is a dank soakend cellar
Spray chasing after the mast
From such feeble beginnings
Come small matters bumping into the grey
While we are all making way
M.S. Morrison
You Can’t Take My Love Away
Do you know why I am here
Will you listen to all the words
I’ve got some thing for you
But you don’t understand
I am a solid man
and you can’t take my love away
M.S.Morrison
As A Child
As a child I learned my lines so well
I learned how.. not what to be
They lied but I believed…
Now I am not so sure I believed at all
Or that they meant to lie
About what they learned as a child
M.S. Morrison
House Of Ginger
The coolness of running water
Dripping off the roof
My house made of ginger
You take a bite of melting sugar
Rain is shaking out the sweet crystals so long bound
M.S. Morrison
Lips Dripping
Lips dripping she kissed him
Then took to the streets in her red dress
Flying thru the deep darkness
Faint white shadows dancing
M.S. Morrison
Maybe
Maybe I dreamed to hard last night
Maybe I stood too long in the pale moon light
Looking out the same cracked window that haunts me sometimes
M.S. Morrison
Walking
America has been mugged…again
People with a political party that begins with D
Promised the American people a ride
They said they would take us where we needed to go
Then they took all our money and left us standing along side the road
The party of the R has betrayed us too
Its time to begin walking
Walking by the millions to ask for real freedom
M.S. Morrison
You Got What You found
My Mama Told Me what life would be
When I fell down my grandma said you see
and my woman always tells me
You got what you found
Maybe you turn around now
but you got what you found
M.S. Morrison
At A Safe Distance
We used to wave goodbye
At A safe distance from our protectors
Mommy would say avert your eyes
they are carrying weapons
They looked so determined
Against the deep blue sky
And as we tended garden that year
We dreamed about their victories
Then one day a man came to our door
He demanded my fathers gun
And took the family silver with him
And said he would protect us from now on
M.S. Morrison
First they want to take away our guns
Then they want to take away our freedom
Geronimo
Truth talks to justice...justice talks to peace...
M.S. Morrison
I don't stop for periods...somebody call the punctuation police.
Toss The Picture
I have relatives who send me pictures of their vacations
I try to put them in order if I can
Of the significance of the experience
If I feel that they were not having a good time at that moment
I toss the picture in the garbage
M.S Morrison
Intent and sometimes a lack there of..is the frame work upon which poetry is built ...
but I could be wrong...
Or I could be Wong...
M.S. Morrison
A Resurrection Of Our Cares
Day to day
We don’t want a tragedy
Or a comedy of errors
Just a little drama
And a resurrection of our cares
M.S. Morrison
Life is not about one day...
The power of words is found in the infinite...
M.S. Morrison
John went out in his garage and woke up five days latter...
We Made Tea
We made tea
In a Blue China Cup
The water was hot
The tea wasn’t
If I get in hot water let me steep
For ten minuets…
By the way…
I usually taste better with a little sugar
M.S. Morrison
No Answers
I have no answers for you baby
I have no answer
Have no answers for you baby
No answer
I used to sing you to sleep
Thought your soul was to keep
But I have no answer for you baby
No answers
No answers
M.S. Morrison
A song to sing
It's just a song to sing
A melody of joy
That has no memory
Of broken promise or withered sky
Just grass so green
With golden leaves
That come and go
While the music plays me
Soft and slow
M.S. Morrison
What I Could Never Understand
I wish That I could solve with pen
What I could never understand
How the reason for the words went blind
Until what was so simple then
Became so blurred with time
M.S. Morrison
At the writers end: carve it on my tombstone
I understand better now what I never knew...
M.S. Morrison
If we give up the ghosts of our past then we may just have a future...
M.S.Morrison
We only gain political muscle by asking for the decency of what is right...
M. S. Morrison
My Grandma use to say that if you don't feed that family now then you must let their
dog bite you later.
M.S. Morrison
Economies Of Scale
The largest benevolent world trusts that help millions of people;
are managed by the likes of Bill Gates and Warren Buffet.
In comparison Communism is but a footnote of history and the Hippie Movement a
small Acid party.
M.S. Morrison
Many
Many people are sailing thru rough waters
Many people trying to save what they have left
Many people listening to the heartbeat of the ocean
Many people drifting out to sea
Many people just trying to help
M.S. Morrison 2009
Story To Tell
I went a little crazy on the southern ideal
Like Elvis I was a poor boy with a story to tell
Learned to play guitar on the edge of my bed
Heard the roar of the crowd but not what was said
Moved to L.A. with a hope and a prayer
Just another poor boy with a story to tell
I got me an agent with an agent of her own
And she tells me I’m good and she tells me I’m great
She buys all my drugs and sets all my dates
And when I get a little crazy from the rock and roll
She puts her arms around me and once again I’m whole
I’m just a poor boy with a story to tell in my own kind of hell
Sitting up late on the edge of my bed
I can hear the roar of the crowd
I just can’t remember what was said
M.S. Morrison
Like Diamonds Lost When You Are Gone
Don’t cry little one
Live plush in the deep green spring
and fly out on the early dawn
Tomorrow is another day
Don’t cry little one
You are still the precocious child you have become
And a beautiful woman along the way
Don’t cry little one
No one knows like you
The love you give with the morning dew
And the tears we all will shed
Like diamonds lost when you are gone
M.S. Morrison
Small business is the alter of invention... Tax it and kill the golden goose.
M.S. Morrison
Century after Century
Century after Century,
Would be dictators have gained power,
By promising to punish the rich and free the poor
Then shortly after they consolidated power they raped and pillaged both
Then they shot them in the head and left them in the ditch for dead
Be careful what you wish for…
M.S. Morrison
How to lie with Statistics
Lesson One
100% of people Die
10% of people live
20% of people live
50% of people live
75% of people live
100% of people live
100% of people pay taxes
100% of people die
M.S. Morrison
What is life about
It’s a tenuous existence that we live
We die die die and sometimes live…
What is life about.. Well I will tell you son
It about a father’s holding on
and a mother’s loving touch
and well.. its about so so much.
M.S. Morrison
YOU WOULD SHINE
And if they captured you in a bottle
You would shine forever
Even though you were dead
And if they sold you out
They would spend the rest of their lives
Trying to buy you back
And you would shine
M.S. Morrison
You Give A Man A Gun
You give a man a gun; then you crap on him,
and you crap on him,
then you crap on him again...
for years and years and years..
then you don't know why he pulls the trigger.
M.S. Morrison
Just Take My Word For It
I love you and you love me
That’s not enough for me
I like to stand alone and be what I can be
I love you more than tomorrow but less than yesterday
Let me put this another way…
There was a time
There was a place
In outer space, when we belonged together
Just take my word for it…
M.S. Morrison
And We All Die In The End
I looked at what might have been
then I looked at tomorrow
And I looked at the days in front of me
And wiped away the tears of my sorrow
I started over again
And I am glad you are still my friends
And we all die in the end
M.S. Morrison
NOW AND THEN
It took a long time to come around the bend
Now you see me and I see you
Remember it was so simple when
I used to sing you to sleep
and if I could stay off the bottle
you would see me too
And I could Love you
Now and then
M.S. Morrison
I loose the day
My baby loves me
yea my baby.. yea my baby..
loves me
well enough
Still I get tangled up
and loose my way
I forget and lose the day
But then tomorrow comes and gives me a another chance
Then I find myself again following her around
Just like when we met twenty years ago
I keep loosing what I found
But I keep trying to become a better person.
M.S. Morrison
Just a dancer in the band
I used to be a dancer in the band
Of my own beliefs
Now I join in once in a while
and sing a chorus of love
and some times beg to God
for my release
M.S. Morrison
Pages Left Undone
My work will never run its course
Not as long as I love
Not as long as I live
Take no responsibility
For my child like love
But nurture it
Endure Its baffling winds
Become a new sailor on pure waters
And prepare to come about
M.S. Morrison
Tired
I am Tired of a country where we celebrate the woman and denigrate the man
Where we say white is bad and any other color is better
We are all people of color
We love like no other
So what is wrong
M.S.Morrison
Words Didn't Matter
I looked up and saw the face of a lover
Someone else with a heart like mine
Clear green eyes looking deep into my soul
Without fear for what I would find
I was swept away with the moment
To this day I can’t remember what was said
There were words but words didn’t matter…
M.S. Morrison
Hawks Nest… West ( By God )Virginia
I grew up with a cat on the porch and a long haired lazy dog
Where the sunlight streams through the trees so green
…bees buzzing in a hollow log
On a gravel road where the crowds don’t go and the hands of the clock stand still
That brings to mind a simpler time when living was the biggest thrill…
M.S. Morrison
Thanks to the Skaggs family for bringing us over 50 years of country music.
Take Me Back
Take me back to the countryside
Take me back where my dreams can’t hide
Take me back to the simple life
Where there was always time
Take me back to the memories
Like June bugs in July
Take me back where summer winds
Blow easy through my mind
M.S. Morrison
If a thought can better life let me think it now...
M.S. Morrison
Live
Live by the sword
Die by the sword
Live by the sword
Die by the sword
Live Live Live...
M.S. Morrison
Fight
I am the self centered bastard that your mother told you not to play with...
But you want me next to you in a fight.
M.S. Morrison
Lost
We are as lost as twinkling stars in the distance of our own creation
M.S.Morrison
Thoughts of feelings ( Part 1)
Those we put out of mind
Be they hated once
Or loved for a lifetime
Are given the power of our soul
They are seen clearly by us
Even in the darkness
For they have walked alone barefoot
Across the burning fires of our indifference
M.S. Morrison
Empty hallway
Yellow smoke on blue walls…empty hallway
Someone’s tearing up the tires in the gravel outside
I’ve got some disease that I was born with
That dreaded pain that makes me want to live
I just want to live… to live and love again
M.S. Morrison
The best legacy we can leave our children is a debt free society...
M.S. Morrison
My grandmother used to tell me don't promise people what you can't do...
M.S. Morrison
Civilization only managed to make minor mistakes
until government was invented...
M.S. Morrison
After years of thought I have become bi-political. I hate both Parties.
M.S. Morrison
Words can't tell the story...But we can write the book
M.S. Morrison
Changing all the time
They’ll be yellows greens and blues
In any shade you choose
And you will love and sometimes loose
In the watercolor rain
Heaven Knows what the world would be
If you’re eyes could clearly see the sunshine
You wake up in a purple haze
Looking back at the single days
That you’ve been through
And you are changing all the time
M.S. Morrison
Anger and Lust
There’s a dream that comes from the vine
Where all the treasures we trust
Are caught in the fires of time
And would be ashes and dust
Except for the red liquid spilled
In moments of anger and lust
M.S. Morrison
We are so green with climate change that maybe soon we will smell the money...
M.S. Morrison
The most fun I ever had was in the pool with Sally Wednesday .
In Tuesday Arizona...or was that Monday…
M.S. Morrison
I feel like Benjamin Button in reverse...
Holy River
I sat down by a holy river
That flowed silently to the sea
Soon that holy river
raged inside of me
M.S. Morrison
Then a baby smiles…
When the sky turns dark and cloudy
And you’re laying there with a broken body
Listening to some strangers as they cry
Promising to come to see you
Wishing that they could be you
Hoping that you would get better one more time
…then you run beyond the trees
To an open field in your mind
Where the perfection of your pain
Is of a special kind…
And you wish it were real
What you thought you saw in your lovers eyes
And then a baby smiles as the world goes by
M.S. Morrison 1990
I have spent a lifetime in obscurity...I am Beginning to enjoy it.
M.S. Morrison
If I Could Take A Bullet For The World
I hope it would go straight through me
With a white hot passion it would cleanse me
And kill the bitter life that so many still live
Maybe then we could fall down in laughter
In the deep green grass of what were after
Never being less than what we are
With a place to put all our sorrows
Finding all our new tomorrows
Soaring with the blue birds in the clouds
But when I look around me
Looking at the eyes that found me
Like everyone I hope for one more day
But still I say… If I Could Take A Bullet for the World
M.S. Morrison
All I Remember of Love
I read a card from my Mom from 88
It seems she missed me then; and now
She’s 81. All I remember of love is love Mom
Hope you are well…
M.S. Morrison
Clouds Of Wanting.
I look at life from a distance that gives me some perspective.
But the view is not perfect; it is obscured by clouds of wanting.
M.S. Morrison
What does not kill me makes me limp around for a while
M.S Morrison
Remember Me: I am a three legged dog in a broken down pony
show.
M.S. Morrison
Free...Free...Free..
I am so glad that Health Care will soon be free...anybody got
change for the Trillion dollar shipping and handling fee...
M.S. Morrison (1999) 2009
The World
Praise Allah: save these people from their own government.
I am only one man...exploit me for the purposes of life.
You Are You're Own Leader Get Moving...NOW
No one has the political will to redeem us...but ourselves
Sound bites will only destroy the world
Until we really care about the world it will not get better...
M.S. Morrison
I don't know why I am here...But I am Here.
M.S.Morrison
Always dumber than the future to come
I've got news for you the 60's never happened
it was sold to your parents on television
By the same people that are selling you your future today
We are always smarter than the past generation
Always dumber than the future to come
M.S. Morrison 2009
Our Silences…
Deepen understanding
Freeze the moment
Cast shadows across nations
Unite the spirit
Deny anger
Lie broken by what could wait no longer
Offer hope
Dash it to pieces
Are bridges of healing where sickness has divided
Love with everlasting passion
Touch the stillness
Our silences…
M.S. Morrison 2009
Some Silences
Some silences deepen understanding
Some silences freeze the moment
Some silences cast shadows across nations
Some silences unite the spirit
Some silences deny anger
Some silences lie broken by what could wait no longer
Some silences offer hope
Some silences dash it to pieces
Some silences are bridges of healing where sickness has divided
Some silences Love with everlasting passion
Some silences touch the stillness
Some silences…
M.S. Morrison 1983
Saigon
Watching a Tiger walk through the mush.
A steaming mixture of organic decay..
In which three bodies lay face down.
He slowly reaches for his spoon.
Then stabs aimlessly at the fly..
In his hot bowl of cereal..
Gone are the days of Saigon,
He mumbles silently..
Gone are the days of Saigon.
M.S. Morrison 1983
There are many books of life...few get to read them all.
M.S. Morrison
The prize of the moment is time
M.S. Morrison
It's All I Can Say...Goodnight and Good Day.
But Until Then We Will Fight.
During the attack on the village,
he was asked; "what will you do to save us"
He said, If I fall on my sword,
I will count on the thousands who come after me,
to overwhelm the enemy in tomorrows time and place.
But until then we will fight.
M.S. Morrison
I only know the way...and the way is good.
M.S. Morrison
In order to gain equality, I am willing to use their words against them.
M.S. Morrison
LIVE IN THE OPEN
M.S. Morrison
When you meet the most resistance... that is when you are about to solve the problem.
M.S. Morrison
I have tried earnestly, my entire life, to avoid work, whenever possible.
Now that I am retiring from all honest efforts to maintain an industrious facade;
I can and will enjoy a complete collapse of all attempts to save me from moral
destruction.
M. S. Morrison
The Past
The Past is like a ribbon
Holding up your hair
You turn around to find it
but it's not there
M.S. Morrison
Where one runs.. two will follow...Then a crowd issues forth into the street
M.S. Morrison 1983
Looking
Looking down the rows of corn...
Looking at a sea of cotton...
Well old times here are gone...
But are they forgotten.
M.S. Morrison
I once was a Vincent Van gone
I hung every where that was wrong
M.S. Morrison
Tolerance is what you do when you got your ass in gear
M.S. Morrison
The day the towers died
It was a crisp September
We were talking aimlessly as people do
A plane flew into the first building
As TVs lit up across the world
Everything was in slow motion
We didn’t know what it meant
Oh god what next..what now..
The world stopped
As the towers fell we sat in silence
Then we gathered up our gear
Locked the door and went home
To the uneasy world that lay before us
M.S. Morrison
To insure the lifetime of a rumor is to deny it.
M. S. Morrison
Blue Heaven
A chosen son of the promised land
He blasted off with a master plan
To bring back to the human race
A gleaming chunk of outer space
And he called it Blue Heaven
In a rocket built with his own two hands
From a vision seen in the dark of night
With a holy cross upon his chest
And a heart knowing wrong from right
Blue Heaven…Blue Heaven
He’s just looking for a little piece of heaven
Blue Heaven…Blue Heaven
Just searching for a little Blue Heaven
Deep into the Las Vegas sky
He gripped the golden throttle tight
He said his prayers and looked outside
And thought about Elvis died
They found him on a mountain top
The papers called it suicide
The body was later lost
His mother said he never lied
M.S.Morrison
For the Dream
For a woman can do what she will;
But what is the value of her Life,
if she does not own her Dream in the end ?
M.S. Morrison
When life is Steep form Terraces in your life.
M.S. Morrison
Poetry is about Questions.
M.S.Morrison
For A Dream
For a man can do what he will;
But what is the value of his life,
if he does not own his dream in the end ?
M.S. Morrison
He Had Cancer.
He was a Geologist.
He had Cancer.
When asked why he spent so many nights in the woods;
He would say you must understand it is the downside of dating rocks.
They live out in the middle of nowhere.
You expend all you’re energy going there.
Then you have no energy to get back;
Until the sun rises.
M.S. Morrison
MICHAEL
Michael got what Joe wanted.. a martyr.
Michael could not escape the bonds of earth unless he died.
Joe reveled in it :
The aftermath:
Michael dead without a voice;
The millions continued to roll in;
Whatever wrong there was before was compounded.
Only God can save you now Michael:
Laying there on that crown of thorns,
I hear a singing in the wind…and a brief respite in the wings;
Then the orchestra begins with strings and winds.
Michael sings with a choir of angels.
Forever is you’re fate..why wait..Forever is you’re fate.
Who will take up this cause.
Who will save justice.
For a man can do what he will;
But what is the value of his life,
if he does not own his dream in the end.
M.S. Morrison
LIFE...Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
Ellis
These hallowed halls that hold every dream
This elegant structure built with foreign hands
That took in the cold and weary of the world
Will never close its doors again
In fear of what these freedoms mean
M.S. Morrison
Ellis Island closed the year I was born in 1954
Ellis
3 acres took in the world for five years and burned.
Rebuilt.. it began again and became less corrupt.
The sadness of the past and the hope for a better future balanced each other.
Low cost labor drove immigration.. we won the competition through better opportunity.
By the 1880s we became more cautious of our acceptance.
We began to reject some but still accepting many.
We manifest all foreign passengers and created a history.
36 hours and four days in 3 classes is what it took to pass the endurance test of ocean
travel to America
During the end of the 19th century and at the beginning of the twentieth century there
was excitement all around
People were bustling into America
The adventure continued…Will we ever reach America was the question.
The best part of the travel was the tearful end at the Statue of Liberty.
They were so happy they began to sing… living is golden... living is golden.
As they sailed on to the Isle of Tears and into the company of strangers.
M.S. Morrison
She Simply Died
My neighbor died today
A little old Grey haired lady
That the ambulance quietly carried away
There was no hurry
No crowd
No reporters asking why
She simply died
M.S. Morrison
June 27 2009
JW
We weren't allowed to pledge allegiance to the flag. This was hard to explain. The very
same flag that allowed us to say no. My Sixth grade teacher made an example of me.
He pointed me out and called me a communist. I asked my father to talk to him and he
told me that it was my responsibility to stand up for my faith. I told my teacher that I
would stand but that I would not hold my hand up against my heart.
Michael S. Morrison 1966
Jackpot City
Jackpot City
Looking very pretty
Jackpot City
Going to make me rich
Jackpot City
Always going to feed me
Jackpot City
Scratches every itch
Jackpot City
What you going to give me
Jackpot City
I want my neighbors car
Jackpot City
I know you’re going to free me
Jackpot City
I want a big Cigar
M..S. Morrison 2009
Because They Are Coming
What color is your planet
The one you live on
The island you sit on
The opinion you hold on to
For dear dear life
I got a 45
Sitting by my bedside
Waiting for an argument
That never comes
You tell me what to believe
You tell me what you see
Be the lookout
The keeper of the hideout
Because they are coming
M.S. Morrison
P.S. Paranoia will destroy ya
More and More
More and More like everywhere else
More and More like everywhere else
More and More like everywhere else
Something we know so well
That goes straight to hell
M.S. Morrison
I WAS 55
I smelled the hot rain falling
On the Home Depot parking lot
Oil drenched steam billowing up
With the slight smell of sawn lumber in the air
Like my first day in the auditorium in my elementary school
With the wood floors freshly oiled
Filling our minds with the whispers of what lay beyond
And tempting us to run home across the yard
M.S. Morrison
My Grandmother:
Used to make sandwiches for the starving people passing by her house during the
great depression.
She was a half breed Cherokee but no one knew.
She was proud of her race a great cook she made a life of cooking.
My grandmother was a pragmatist; she did what worked.
She never invested in the stock market because she thought it was gambling.
When World War II broke out she sewed Parachutes for the U.S. Army.
She met my grand father as a field cook, feeding the men who built hydroelectric
dams across the south.
If there was a rock and a hard place she was there.
She could drink curse and spit as good as any of the men.
My grandmother built a hard scrabble life for herself with an indefinite future.
She left her two children short of loving kindness and a feeling of well being, But Self
Reliant.
My grandmother tried in the little time we had to improve my life and feed me
spiritually.
She showed me a picture of her mother in Indian (Cherokee) dress because she
wanted me to know.
My grandmother died with her hand in mine at the age of 86 in Florida within Minuets
of my arrival.
We all cried because there nothing we could do.
She was always stronger than us and finally she had her own way .
M.S. Morrison 2009
History Lies
History lies and time fades away.
The best days I had were never that way.
Don’t sell your soul for the memory of yesterday.
Or for the shining promise of a better tomorrow.
Live now for history lies.
M.S. Morrison
Missed Opportunities
On My Plate
On my mind is a plate.
On the plate is a smoking steak.
On the steak is an exotic sauce.
and I am at K-mart looking for a lawn chair.
M.S. Morrison
P.S. Am I Plate or Steak
The Campaign
Now you understand that the economics of the situation call for expansive economic
planning and for a dynamic of future wealth and an ongoing financial process which
cannot be interrupted by reality.
M.S. Morrison
I Called The CIA
I made some bbq today
It all went wrong so I called the CIA
My wife got mad at me
Because I left a burner on
The weak always die before the strong
What makes me crazy makes me strong
I didn’t take my time today
I let the time slip away
But I didn’t get paranoid
I called the CIA
But this time I hung up
M.S. Morrison
What If
"What if my whole life has been wrong"...
Then I will start over again.
M.S. Morrison
Afghanistan
Gun trucks moving down the highway, going my way, are you...
Gun trucks and every thing gets.. quiet, real quiet..
just before we do what we do.
Did all the people back home forget us or do they get us...
Like when they start their cars..
Gun trucks moving down the highway moving for you.
M. S. Morrison
But for today only
Coming up out of the depths
Swimming up
From the deep
A cold blue feeling colder than ice
A chill runs up my spine and I realize I am sweating
I have seen sharks eye to eye
On land and off
Survived horrendous damage to my body
Repelled psychic and spiritual harm
I have loved like no other
I have come to terms with my own reality
But for today only
Tomorrow never sleeps
M.S. Morrison
News at 11:00
Lose weight, stop smoking, relieve stress, fears, or pain.
Addictions, confidence, sleep and relationships.
get laid, find religion,win at politics.News at 11:00.
M.S.Morrison
The United States Of America: Worlds largest theme Park.
M.S. Morrison 2009
Those who do not listen are condemned to silence.
M.S. Morrison
Nirvana
The bad life is two bitches in one one place.
The good life is three bitches in one place.
Nirvana is one bitch in one place.(who likes you)
M.S. Morrison
Dying is the only thing I got left and i aim to do it right.
SO
AND THE PAGES PRESS CLOSE TOGETHER THERE.
SO MANY PAGES OF OUR LIVES.
The problem with living to an older age is our habits continue to call our sanity into
question.
M.S. Morrison
When Will We Reach Beyond Words
M.S. Morrison
Everybody say now: I am the prize who want to win me.
M.S. Morrison
Fresh Cherries
She is the kind of woman who would give you fresh cherries
in a napkin to enjoy on your way home.
M.S. Morrison
Taco Salad
I had a taco salad; pumped 49.00 of premium,
and voted for the best home design in America
before I checked my oil.
What is wrong with America M.S. Morrison
No I am Not Geek; someone has to remember what buttons to push.
M.S.Morrison
Took a drink
I took a drink of water out of the well
It was a cold drink of water
M.S. Morrison
Burning Star
Oh you burning star
You shinning light
You pass so quickly into the night
M.S. Morrison
Genius
Find what you have a genius for.
Do it and don't look back.
Unless looking back is your genius.
M.S. Morrison
Deep
It's a picture I took of myself 20 years ago
I hold it close and I know
that it can see what I cannot
It can see the morning light
When I am asleep
And protect me from anything bad I may keep
Deep inside me
M.S. Morrison
Had a stroke yesterday
didn't stay and went away
didn't leave me paralyzed
didn't leave me less in your eyes
I HAD A STROKE YESTERDAY
do you hear me
I HAD A STROKE YESTERDAY
CAN YOU HEAR ME
M.S. MORRISOM
Good Bad
I use my good technology for all the bad reasons.
I use all my bad technology to forever change the seasons.
Bad good: I use all my good technology for all the bad reasons.
Bad good good bad good bad
the engine that runs life...sometimes.
bad may become good... someday
I don't know...
M.S. Morrison
I used to drink alone now I drink at home
M.S. Morrison
Like an old fire place that no longer burns are the prejudices of my age
M.S. Morrison
The prize of the moment is time
M.S.Morrison
I found all of my tomorrows in yesterday
M.S. Morrison
Poetry is about something broken deep inside and a cracker jack prize
M.S. Morrison
Everything is tangled in my fate.
M. S. Morrison
Right
I have no time to right good words
M.S. Morrison
Something saw
It’s darkening somewhere in the sky
I saw you and its no lie
Something darkening
Something darkening
Somewhere
The wind came up
I could not hold it back
The tornado came
And something saw
M.S. Morrison 2009
Sing
Sing A song Sing a song Sing a damn song Sing it all day long
Like an anthem to your Darkness
Sing a damn song
M.S. Morrison
Biased
We are all biased by the lens of our desire
M.S.Morrison
Born in the USA
Most of the unrest in the world
Most of the resistance against tyranny
Was born in the USA
M.S. Morrison
I had A Bad Day
We are all living in a house of death
all we need to do is find out who the clown is
that put us here and kill him or her or them
If you think the clues are in the bible...good luck
...and remember live every day like you are going to kill tommorrow
M.S. Morrison
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity
in every difficulty."
Winston Churchill
Rebuild America
The Communist Democrats and the Fascist Republicans no longer serve the needs of
the United States of America or its citizens.
The working class will prevail and build a new political party based on work and
productivity.
We will rebuild America as a greener stronger nation that makes its own goods and is
not a slave to petroleum products.
We will take care of our young and our old.
We will rebuild America by supporting small business and by protecting our natural
resources.
Our military will not hesitate to protect us but will not step beyond that mission.
We will increase our national security by reaching out to those who will listen.
We are not an island and will seek to include our neighbors in the South and Central
American region.
We will seek to become one America and unify our hemisphere one billion strong.
M.S.Morrison
Music is the bastard of the Ages
M.S. Morrison
Better
I've tried wine women and song
I definitely like #$@@# better
M.S. Morrison
On Wednesday
Ill kill myself next Wednesday
In the garage with a rope
Not too tight just tight enough
I hope it all goes smooth
Ill kill myself without fail
I am sure I am dying now
But if I kill myself I hope its clean
Am I dying now?
Ill kill my self if I can on Wednesday
Because I cannot pay the bill
For what it costs to bury me
Ill leave work early if I can
Well Ill kill myself
Uh Ill kill my self
Ill kill my self
If I have the time
On Wednesday
M.S. Morrison
A place to say goodnight
Everyone lives in their own house
The one without walls
The one where they can think out loud
The one with a place and a space
For them and the people they invite
A place to say no and yes
A place to say goodnight
A place to say goodbye
M.S. Morrison May 2009
The American press is the craziness in the closet.
M.S. Morrison
Be your own captain
Sail your own boat
M.S. Morrison 2009
Lazy.
I’ve seen bad and I’ve seen good
I’ve been rich and misunderstood
I’ve been poor and hungry and cold
But I never tried to sell my soul
I figured to sell your soul is hard…
and I’m basically lazy.
M.S. Morrison May 2009
My Guru is now my servant
M.S. Morrison
Reach Beyond Your Time
M.S. Morrison
Words Are My Children
M.S. Morrison
Freedom
The Anarchists would destroy
The Communists would Corrupt
The Capitalists would sell
The Nationalists would suppress
Freedom
Freedom
Freedom
Michael S. Morrison 2009
Freedom is the heart of true Democracy
M.S. Morrison
Hopes And Dreams
Hopes and dreams flying by
I can see the twinkle in your eye
Wish as may and I might
I can’t change the evening light
But Time gets better with time
Life moves on
I sing my dreams to sleep
And Life moves on
Yes life moves on
In our hopes and dreams
M.S. Morrison
For All Your Dreams
When you say
My heart sleeps
When you sigh
My heart sleeps
When you move
My heart leaps
My heart lives
for all your dreams
M.S. Morrison
Marry Then
I Stood close to the Watchtower near the well
Taking on arrows and very close to Hell
Listened to the yelling and listened to the fight
So I left out fear that it wouldn’t end right
I left for my bonny lass I would meet in the wind
Away we would go and marry then
Oh we would marry then
We would go marry then
Me and my bonny lass would marry then
In the deep darkness of the wind
M.S. Morrison
WE ARE BETTING IT ALL
With one roll of the dice
One roll we are betting everything
A bright new group of people are leading the government
Will they break on through to the other side or will they fissile
Will They be brilliant or dull and smart and fail or will they be pragmatic and win
Is It a new day or just another ho hum tomorrow
We wait we listen we wait and in the end we wait
M.S. Morrison
THE WAY
Need
Availability
Supply
Location
Fulfillment
Care
M.S. Morrison 2009
Good Home
Good Food
Good Life
M.S. Morrison 2009
BANKRUPTCY FOR THE POOR
There is a flashing blue neon sign on the White House Door
It says: “Bankruptcy For The Poor”
The Congress has become a whore
To the desire for perpetual reelection
There is no reflection in the mirror any more
The new boss is same as the old boss
But he wants to give us a different feel
He wants us to need him with his brand new drug
While he leaves the Middle Class out in the cold again
And while he fixes he destroys everything we were hoping for
M.S. Morrison 2009
It's On The Street:
God has a hand puppet called Satan.
Satan has A hand puppet called God.
M.S. Morrison
I Am A Sentinel Of Tomorrow
M.S. Morrison
Here's To The End
Here's to end of the Analog Sound
Here's to the end of the Electron Tube
Here's to the AM Fade
On a country road in the month of June
Here's to getting away
With a Transistor Radio
Where the Blue Jeans are frayed
And its always up to You
M.S. Morrison 2009
Love Like No Other
M.S. Morrison
Life is a mystery that changes the course of history
M. S. Morrison
Life is short but it sure is wide
M.S. Morrison
The job of the old is to remind the young of what they have lost and what they can
reclaim.
M.S.Morrison
A Place
It was best the we could do
It was best the we could do
Then later I realized
It was a place in our own lives
And it was the best we could do
M.S. Morrison
Mr. Paulson You Saved the world...Thank You!
Like a dog on a chain
Like a dog on a chain
Like a dog on a chain
Like a dog on a chain
In the front yard in the rain
M.S. Morrison
When
back when we fell in love with the music
back a long time ago we became almost pure
We sang our song and we pledged our allegiance
to that of which we were sure of then
and the sun came up and we started all over again
way back when
way back then
never like the first time
M.S.Morrison
WAITING FOR OBAMA
When he gets here he will make everything better
We can already feel it
The food tastes better
The sex is better
And after everything is said and done
OBAMA will be the only one
P.S. When he gets here he will be the new Jesus...AMEN
M.S. Morrison
LIFE
The only life you have is the life you carve out for yourselves
M.S. Morrison
Could I
Could I do more
Could I do less
I hate the question
Because I lay awake at night
Wondering what I can do
To make the difference
M.S. Morrison
On A Red Dirt Road
Red Dirt Roads Lead Every Where
They Lead me Back to Jesus
I see Martyrs Walking there
With Elvis trying to feed us
And in the interim
There are harps and wings
And we begin to sing where are you lord
And a quiet comes to save us
And we all stand in naked grace
Before the day and smile
On A Red Dirt Road
M.S. Morrison
BIG A
Big A Train coming
Coming down the track
Coming down
Coming down
Coming down
The track
Well we road off down the rails
But we haven’t crashed yet
Day go by
I don’t know why
MY GRANDMA COULD NOT CASH HER CHECK
Big A train coming to save us all
Big A train coming some day
Well the big A train coming anyway
M. S. Morrison
And we will all sing together in the end
we will all sing together
we will all sing together
And we will all sing together in the end
M.S. Morrison
THE WHALE
He sees the knife and he remembers the words of his ancestors;
In killing you they will kill themselves and he smiles and dies.
M. S. Morrison
Japan :Stop Killing Whales in Antarctica and in your minds
or you will kill your culture today.
The Democrats always weaken our military; squander all the money, and set the
nations course for oblivion.
M.S. Morrison
