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- “People don’t sing like they used to sing…”
- “Break all the windows in the cold, cold ground.”
- “We’ve tried potions and waxen dolls, and none of us could find any cures…”
- “I can’t get unwound, why do I throw myself into the night…”
- “Pharoah’s army, they got drowned in the sea one day…”
- “…and the fire and the rose are one.”
2018 6
- “There, behind the glass, stands a real blade of grass…”
- “How soft your fields so green can whisper tales of gore…”
- “And we’re strangers here, on our way to some other place…”
- “Quand tu vois ton bateau partir…”
- “The Deadheads got their Jerry, and mom’s got her Barry…”
- “Take a weather-vane rooster, throw rocks at his head…”
2017 20
- “Joyful as the silver planets run…”
- “…to keep her from the howling winds.”
- “Die Nachbarn haben nichts gerafft, und fühlten sich gleich angemacht…”
- “Kindled by the dying embers of another working day…”
- “The time has come to conquer, and I’ll provide your end…”
- “Way down the street, there’s a light in his place…”
- “But she knows that when he goes, he really goes…”
- “River, I’ve never seen the sea…”
- “I can’t be left to my imagination…”
- “Carving deep blue ripples in the tissues of your mind…”
- “Now, the mist across the window hides the lines…”
- “I must admit, just when I think I’m king…”
- “Young man in a quiet place, got a hawk on his arm…”
- “No risk, I’ll whisk them up in no moonlight…”
- “…and the sound of Te Awamutu had a truly sacred ring…”
- “Let me set the battlements on fire…”
- “Or will these changing times, motorways, power lines…”
- “And everything under the sun is in tune…”
- “…but nevertheless you know you’re locked toward the future.”
- “Spin me down the long ages, let them sing the song…”
2016 21
- “Freezing breath on a window pane, lying and waiting…”
- “And I’ll float on your melody, sing your chorus soft and low…”
- “You can keep my things, they’ve come to take me home…”
- “The shipwrecks and the ghosts, from up and down the coast…”
- “No one could find me on their own, I’m off the beaten track…”
- “I watched you try, try to make that girl cry…”
- “So I broke into the palace with a sponge and a rusty spanner….”
- “Don’t blame the sweet and tender hooligan…”
- “She moves with the music, ’cause it never gets old…”
- “And there’s talk in the houses, and people dancing in rings…”
- “So keep an open eye, it’s as well we tell no lie…”
- “Takes more imagination when everything’s remote control…”
- “Give us direction, the best of goodwill…”
- “Behind our glass, we’ll sit and look at our ever-open book…”
- “Silhouettes and shadows watch the revolution…”
- “…a million generations removed from expectations…”
- “Rejoice, rejoice, we have no choice…”
- “And all the nobody people, and all the somebody people…”
- “In the thunder crash, you’re a thousand minds, within a flash…”
- “I’m so cool and calculated, alone in the modern world…”
- “Driving ’round the city rings, staring at the shape of things…”
2015 28
- “No ceiling bearing down on me, save the starry sky above…”
- “Take my shoes off, and throw them in the lake…”
- “…in the churches and houses, in the townships and mines…”
- “They turn their heads to see if we were meant to be…”
- “But down in the underground, you’ll find someone true…”
- “But just saying it could even make it happen…”
- “Silken mist outside the window, frogs and newts slip in the dark…”
- “Ah, you are in your prime, you’ve come of age…”
- “I remember, only for an hour…”
- “And with this crutch, its old age and its wisdom…”
- “It seems the music keeps them quiet, there is no other way…”
- “But Lorca’s corpse, as he had prophesied, just walked away…”
- “We’ll wait in stone circles, ’til the force comes through…”
- “Yeah, proof is the bottom line for everyone…”
- “You hear the playback, and it seems so long ago…”
- “Unsheathe the blade within the voice…”
- “The spheres are in commotion, the elements in harmony…”
- “We’ll find the speck of truth in each riddle…”
- “…with this really ragged notion that you’d return…”
- “The eyes all rollin’ round and round into a distant gaze…”
- “A concert of kings, as the white sea snaps…”
- “Asking for more only got us where we are today…”
- “Well, it seemed to be a song for you…”
- “Turn on these theater lights and brighten the darkest skies…”
- “It’s not the way you have your hair, it’s not that certain style…”
- “…but as for fame, it’s just a name…”
- “Success or failure will not alter it…”
- “Na na na na na na, make my mind up for me…”
2014 28
- “Shuffling your memories, dealing your doodles in margins…”
- “What would an angel say? The devil wants to know.”
- “The walls are white, and in the night…”
- “Slipping the clippers through the telephone wire…”
- “Kindled by the dying embers of another working day…”
- “The story is old, I know, but it goes on…”
- “A legacy of romance from a twilight world…”
- “Holding their own, last orders commanding attention…”
- “Mais nous pouvons faire ce que nous voulons…”
- “Empty-handed on the cold wind to Valhalla…”
- “Crossing the central reservation of my imagination…”
- “…with my eyes turned to a different time or hour…”
- “Not under the thumb of the cynical few…”
- “He brewed a song of love and hatred…”
- “Bless with a hard heart those who surround me…”
- “Like flames reaching out from the sun…”
- “And as the nail sunk in the cloud…”
- “I give you my armour, I give you my glory…”
- “Dust you down from tip to toe…”
- “When streams are ripe and swelled with rain…”
- “Funny how my memory slips while looking over manuscripts…”
- “Oh, we won’t give in, let’s go living in the past…”
- “In between the lines, there’s a lot of obscurity…”
- “Safe were the folk words of truth would upset…”
- “But I say it’s only mountains and the sea…”
- “I say, Charles, don’t you ever crave…”
- “Golden toddy on the mantle, broken gun beneath the bed…”
- “…laughing as they glance across the great divide.”
2013 40
- “Meeting as the tall ships do, passing in the channel…”
- “It’s all a patchwork from above…”
- “…and eyes full of tinsel and fire.”
- “…and I’ll climb the hill in my own way…”
- “Silken mist outside the window, frogs and newts slip in the dark…”
- “You can look at the menu, but you just can’t eat…”
- “Sitting in the valley, as I watch the sun go down…”
- “And it’s true, if all this around us is paradise…”
- “…and in a yellow taxi turn to me and smile…”
- “The forming of a new connection, to study or to play…”
- “We walked around in circles, singing…”
- “Where the scent of wild roses turns the milk to cream…”
- “We’re just fol-low-ing ancient his-to-ry…”
- “And still I hear that sharp tongue talking…”
- “With a torch in your pocket, and the wind at your heels…”
- “A week without you, thought I’d forget…”
- “As we get older, and stop making sense…”
- “Not under the thumb of the cynical few…”
- “You really ought to give Iowa a try…”
- “You’ve been in the pipeline, filling in time…”
- “Brand-new dandy, first-class scene-stealer…”
- “You should know, time’s tide will smother you…”
- “A kiss on the wind, and we’ll make the land…”
- “And as the nail sunk in the cloud…”
- “When I’ve walked in the garden, when I’m walking offstage…”
- “Here comes another winter, waiting for Utopia…”
- “Now, the mist across the window hides the lines…”
- “I focus on a face in Samarkand…”
- “Look, a golden-winged ship is passing my way…”
- “World tour, media whore, please the press in Belgium…”
- “…und auch das größte Wunder geht vorbei…”
- “You say, ‘ere thrice the sun done salutation to the dawn…'”
- “Cool winds wash down your hope, and you slipped…”
- “Success or failure will not alter it…”
- “Look down, look down, there’s twenty years to go…”
- “Looking down on empty streets, all she can see…”
- “With a wintry, storm-blown sigh…”
- “So we go inside, and we gravely read the stones…”
- “Well, I hit the rowdy road, and many kinds I met there…”
- “…and a cross of gold as a talisman.”
2012 56
- “One step ahead of the shoe shine, two steps away from the county line…”
- “…and sing that rycht balulalow…”
- “Winter is the glad song that you hear…”
- “There’s a beast upon my shoulder, and a fiend upon my back…”
- “…and every one of them words rang true, and glowed like burning coal…”
- “Let us close our eyes; outside, their lives go on much faster…”
- “What would an angel say? The devil wants to know.”
- “I can hear people singing, it must be Christmas time…”
- “Well, tell her that I miss our little talks…”
- “I bit off more than I can chew, only so much you can do…”
- “A long time ago, we used to be friends…”
- “On the back seat of the car, with Joseph and Emily…”
- Looking Up: Poems from the National Cathedral Gargoyles
- “River, I’ve never seen the sea…”
- “The stairs creak as you sleep, it’s keeping me awake…”
- “Won’t you fly across that ocean, take a train on down…”
- “When I was their age, all the lights went out…”
- “Quoting God as you discuss what is right or wrong for us…”
- “I had riches too great to count, could boast of a high ancestral name…”
- “Is this the age of the thunder and rage…”
- “Diamond rings, and all those things…”
- “But all the gold won’t heal your soul…”
- “Then she opened up a book of poems and handed it to me…”
- “But nothing hides the color of the lights that shine…”
- “And I listen to the chanting, and all the lies the wise ones tell…”
- “Send me your warning siren, as if I could ever hide…”
- “Wake up, wake up, king in a Cath-o-lic style…”
- “On the tall cliffs, they were getting older, sons and daughters…”
- “But the world spins on regardless, which is lucky for you and me…”
- “Come down off your throne, and leave your body alone…”
- “It seems the music keeps them quiet, there is no other way…”
- “In the words of Lincoln, ‘one by land and two by sea…'”
- “…and every time I wonder if the world is right…”
- “And after a while, you can work on points for style…”
- “Wonder if he’ll ever know he’s in the best-selling show…”
- “In the summertime, when all the trees and leaves are green, and the redbird sings…”
- “I heard telephones, opera house, favorite melodies…”
- “See the curtains hangin’ in the window…”
- “No ceiling bearing down on me, save the starry skies above…”
- “Merciless, the magistrate turns ’round…”
- “…at a place where you can walk across, with five steps down…”
- “I can see the path you’re cutting…”
- “So, I continue to continue…”
- “The rebel and the teacher, the vandal and the saint…”
- “Dust you down from tip to toe…”
- “We’re doing fine, I’ll see you on the Nightline…”
- “No hesitation, no heart of gold…”
- “So perhaps I should leave here, go far away…”
- “Singing, not necessarily sorted…”
- “And there’s talk in the houses, and people dancing in rings…”
- “Look up, look down, there’s a crazy world outside…”
- “Though the interstate is choking under salt and dirty sand…”
- “Mountain passes slipping into stones…”
- “Throw the world off your shoulders tonight, Mr. Smith…”
- “She shouldn’t oughta try to be that way…”
- “Wheel in a wheel, way in the middle of the air…”
2011 63
- “Meeting as the tall ships do, passing in the channel…”
- “If you want to tell me something new, I might stick around…”
- “I can hear people singing, it must be Christmastime…”
- “…and eyes full of tinsel and fire.”
- “Let us close our eyes; outside, their lives go on much faster…”
- “I was dreaming like a Texan girl…”
- “And you know you cannot leave her, for you touched the distant sands…”
- “Funny how my memory skips while looking over manuscripts…”
- “…and the little ones chewed on the bones-o….”
- “Some people dance cheek to cheek…”
- “But the answers you seek will never be found at home…”
- “Everybody’s coming, leave your body at the door…”
- “…to get a little conversation, drink a little red wine…”
- “Well, it’s a long way to Richmond, rollin’ north on 95…”
- “And they burned up the diner where I always used to find her…”
- “…and stained in the blood of a whole generation.”
- “…come crashing in, into my little world.”
- “In the distance, the city lights flickered in the bay…”
- “I had to run away high, so I wouldn’t come home low…”
- “My words trickle down, from a wound that I have no intention to heal…”
- “Look, a golden-winged ship is passing my way…”
- “All around the world, statues crumble for me…”
- “Catch the mist, catch the myth…”
- “A place where nobody dared to go…”
- “…’til the whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes…”
- “It must be summer, ’cause you’re never around…”
- “You can’t plant me in your penthouse, I’m goin’ back to my plough…”
- “….and it’s true, if all this around us is paradise.”
- “…all the best freaks are here, please stop staring at me…”
- “Now half the world hates the other half…”
- “I need him now to meet me face to face…”
- “I stand for motherhood, America, and a hot lunch for orphans…”
- “Sie haben uns ein Denkmal gebaut…”
- “Way over yonder in the minor key…”
- “Thursday, I don’t care about you…”
- “…to holes of their own making in the cracks within the walls…”
- “I’m alive, I’m dead, I’m the stranger…”
- “And of course you can’t become if you only say what you would have done…”
- “And as the nail sunk in the cloud…”
- “Cover my eyes and ears, ’til it all disappears…”
- “Und das zehnte Wunder zieht an dir vorbei…”
- “I need a phone call, I need a raincoat…”
- “So, I’ll continue to continue to pretend…”
- “Ten hundred books could I write you about her…”
- “And it takes a night, and a girl, and a book of this kind…”
- “I want to catch something that I might be ashamed of…”
- “Tief im Westen, wo die Sonne verstaubt…”
- “Hey, windowpane, do you remember…”
- “The rain water drips through a crack in the ceiling…”
- “And you know you cannot leave her, for you touched the distant sands…”
- “And the little wheel runs on faith…”
- “Fortune prevailing across the western ocean…”
- “Mais nous pouvons faire ce que nous voulons…”
- “In my blue heaven, there’s a bottle of Pontchartrain…”
- “Crossing the central reservation of my imagination…”
- “I’m no exception, please call my name…”
- “I was walking in the park, dreaming of a spark…”
- “So I’ll sing you a new song…”
- “A garden full of food will be my final contribution to the world…”
- “So I cut some cord, and I shouldn’t have done it…”
- “We are, we are, we are but your children…”
- “Talkin’ jivey, poison ivy…”
- “Turn the clock to zero, honey…”
2010 70
- “To keep on keeping on, like a bird that flew…”
- “Just like the rain, I’ll be always falling…”
- “There’s a picture-view postcard to say that I called…”
- Nowell!
- “…and eyes full of tinsel and fire.”
- “Probi fuimus, sed non durabimus…”
- “‘You’re all wrong,’ I said, and they stared at the sand…”
- “What would an angel say? The devil wants to know.”
- “Angels we have heard on high, tell us to go out and buy…”
- “…irgendwo in der Tiefe gibt es ein Licht.”
- “Walking back to you is the hardest thing that I can do…”
- “On the continent of dreams, you’d be with me…”
- “Spending warm summer days indoors…”
- “And in this town of disco heat, the dancing of a thousand feet…”
- “Look, I must have a star on my door…”
- “Slipping the clippers through the telephone wires…”
- “Way up there in the poison glen…”
- “Thrashing all deceivers, mashing non-believers…”
- “When August and September just become memories of songs…”
- “‘I might be old, but I’m someone new,’ she said…”
- “Those words are all remainders…”
- “Out in the garden, there’s half of a heaven…”
- “Champagne corks are firing at the sun, again….”
- “Na na na na na na, make my mind up for me…”
- “Into the blue again, into the silent water…”
- “Is this the age of the thunder and rage…”
- “Because the sun still shines in the summertime…”
- “Full moon, pass the window sideways…”
- “Couples loiter in the cloisters, social leeches…”
- “Back to the rhythm that we all came from…”
- “…far away from dry land, and its bitter memories.”
- “…and August’s rare delight may be April’s fool.”
- “Sing ‘hi, lo, lay,’ at the end of the day…”
- “An exit to eternal summer slacking…”
- “Take off your hat, sir, there’s a tear-stained eagle passing…”
- “They let us in, so I’m feeling all right…”
- “Some are mathematicians, some are carpenters’ wives…”
- “Drawn into the stream of undefined illusion…”
- “And the little wheel runs on faith…”
- “And as the nail sunk in the cloud…”
- “…in our defense, silence.”
- “I’ll build you a kingdom in that house on the hill…”
- “Feathered, look, they’re covered in a bright elation…”
- “So many shots fired, so many daggers thrown…”
- “Twisting like a flame in a slow dance, baby…”
- “It’s based on a novel by a man named Lear…”
- “I thought it was confetti in our hair…”
- “Unicorns and cannonballs, palaces and piers…”
- “The wind doth taste of bittersweet, like jasper, wine, and sugar…”
- “Don’t leave me hanging in a city so dead…”
- “So I associated myself with fossilized figures…”
- “And he plays at stocks and shares, and he goes to the regatta…”
- “The girls would turn the color of the avocado…”
- “It’s the only the thing that never gets old.”
- “…and the music there, it was hauntingly familiar.”
- “Everything is quiet, everyone has gone to sleep…”
- “I said we walked around for practically forever singing…”
- “There is a green hill far away…”
- “It’s nothing but time and a face that you lose…”
- “I can’t keep my eyes open, wish I had my radio.”
- “Tiny purple fishes run laughing through your fingers…”
- “From Arcadia to the stone fields of Inisheer…”
- “It’s getting so you never know when things are better left alone…”
- “…unladen, empty, and turned to stone.”
- “There’s a club, if you’d like to go…”
- “The circuit boards are linking up in rhyme…”
- “…and every one of them words rang true, and glowed like burning coal…”
- “Leona! Something to slip into the hymns next Sunday!”
- “…and he claws at the door to be let out at night…”
- “Why don’t you ask him who’s the latest on his throne?”
2009 79
- “On a dark new year’s night, on the west coast of Clare…”
- “Card sharks and blues harps and dolphins who leap…”
- “Gekommen um zu bleiben, wir gehen nicht mehr weg…”
- “And the motorway’s stretching right out to us all…”
- “…twisting in the water, you’re just like a dream…”
- “In time, we’ll be dancing in the streets all night…”
- “Trumpets, towers, tenements, wide oceans full of tears…”
- “What a good girl, what a smart girl, what a pretty girl…”
- “I study nuclear science, I love my classes…”
- “Got your number from a friend of mine who lives in your hometown…”
- “No time for nothing, no Patek Philippe…”
- “Oh man, look at those cavemen go…”
- “Good heavens, Miss Sakamoto, you’re beautiful!”
- “I sent a dream to you last night from the end of the world…”
- “So I don’t feel alone, or the weight of the stone…”
- Hoodoo, voodoo, seven-twenty-one-two…
- “There’s talk in the houses, and people dancing in rings…”
- “I never talk to my neighbours, I’d rather not get involved…”
- “Swooping swallows chased by violins…”
- “Success or failure will not alter it.”
- “Everybody’s coming home for lunch these days…”
- “…’cause the only thing misplaced was direction…”
- “There’s a glass of punch below your feet and an angel at your head…”
- “Before you were born, dude, when life was great…”
- “She rules her life like a fine skylark…”
- “…we all leave before the morning light.”
- “The general sat, and the lines on the map…”
- “Half of the time, we’re gone…”
- “…long-forgotten words, or ancient melodies.”
- “Ran down, and the lady said it…”
- “Lie to me, tell me that they’re only robins…”
- “Walk without rhythm, it won’t attract the worm…”
- “We cannot just write off his final scene…”
- “…the dreams all made solid, are the dreams all made real.”
- “There’s that ragged hill, and there’s the boat on the river.”
- “Frame me, and hang me on the wall…”
- “The heroes rest upon the sighs…”
- “She moves with the music, ’cause it never gets old…”
- “Pour your misery down…”
- “And a strange dust lands on your hands, and on your face…”
- “…schau mir in die Augen, und dann schau in mein Gesicht.”
- “Check if you can disconnect the effect, and I’ll go after the cause.”
- “…but they won’t slow down the roundabout.”
- “Afraid of change, afraid of staying the same…”
- “Working on his ark, working all by himself…”
- “But Friday, never hesitate…”
- “Moja droga, ja cię kocham…”
- “…und lass uns ruhig schlafen…”
- “It’s a long way to Harlan, it’s a long way to Hazard…”
- “You thought the leaden winter would bring you down forever…”
- “…when streams are ripe and swelled with rain.”
- “Businessmen, they drink my wine…”
- “I need a phone call, I need a raincoat…”
- “Well and I, could trace your private number, baby…”
- “Take your shoes off, and throw them in the lake…”
- “Fortune prevailing across the western ocean…”
- “…so you run down to the safety of the town.”
- “I was filled with creative desire, I set my mommy’s house on fire…”
- “Eating with a spoon, they don’t give you knives…”
- “Er war ein Punker, und er lebte in der großen Stadt…”
- “You were there at the turnstiles, with the wind at your heels…”
- “I like hammering nails, and speaking in tongues…”
- “Midnight, headlight, find you on a rainy night…”
- “When I am king, dilly-dilly, you will be queen…”
- “He sits in the canyon with his back to the sea…”
- “…I can live off the chickens in my neighbor’s yard.”
- “Plastic tubes and pots and pans, bits and pieces…”
- “…hiding out in tree-tops, shouting out rude names.”
- “Next time, la luna…”
- “He’s got this dream about buying some land…”
- “Little lines, in the ice, splitting, splitting sound…”
- “Hast du etwas Zeit für mich..?”
- “…even if you do got a two-piece, custom-made pool cue.”
- “…but on the way, you know that I will abide.”
- “The piano is firewood, Times Square is a dream…”
- “The tap-tap-tapping of the typewriter pays…”
- “…and all the lies the wise ones tell.”
- “…in the shade of the blackthorn, and the chill of the frost.”
- “Turn the clock to zero, honey…”
2008 142
- “…I looked aside and walked away, along the strand.”
- “…oblique suggestions, and he waited.”
- “Walk on slowly, don’t look behind you…”
- “…and eyes full of tinsel and fire.”
- “Probi fuimus, sed non durabimus…”
- “…and we can all sit watching our Hawaiian island world.”
- “They make you believe it’s the status quo…”
- “Along the coast road, by the headland…”
- “We can go for a walk where it’s quiet and dry…”
- “Relations sparing no expense’ll, send some useless old utensil…”
- “…with kitchen prose and gutter rhymes.”
- “You stand in the shadows, or reach for the sky.”
- “I’m up to my deaf ears in cold breakfast trays…”
- “…now he’s back-page news down in the neighborhood.”
- “…writing books on the way it should have been.”
- “…where the paper lanterns gently swing.”
- “…wide open spaces high above the kitchen.”
- “The music keeps them quiet; there is no other way.”
- “On the back seat of the car, with Joseph and Emily…”
- “On a high red roof, Don Gato sat…”
- “I’ll call you ‘jaguar,’ if I may be so bold…”
- “Okay doors, swing.”
- “Going to a party where no one’s still alive…”
- “Talk and song from tongues of lilting grace…”
- “I think she understood, but she never spoke…”
- “…live and breathe and see the sun in wintertime.”
- “Then I went off to fight some battle…”
- “She made you tea, asked for your autograph…”
- “…for the gold in their bags, or the knives in their backs.”
- “And she was drifting through the backyard…”
- “…empty-handed on the cold wind to Valhalla.”
- “In vain they struggle for the vision fair.”
- “…and I bought us two tickets on that Coast City bus.”
- “A built-in remedy for Kruschev and Kennedy…”
- “And as for fame, it’s just a name…”
- “There’s safety in numbers, when you learn to divide.”
- “I must admit, altho’ I don’t like Sunday…”
- “So I walk up on high, and I step to the edge…”
- “Come, sweet slumber, enshroud me in thy purple cloak…”
- “…and Sunday always comes too late.”
- “Back to school, it’s a bad situation…”
- “And as the nail sunk in the cloud…”
- “You will all go directly to your respective Valhallas…”
- “So be quiet tonight, be sure to step lightly…”
- “I’m gonna bank to the left, then move to the right…”
- “They drank up the wine, and they got to talking…”
- “…just watch them swing with the wind out to sea.”
- “The answers to all this lie with their psychoanalysts…”
- “Some are building monuments, others are jotting down notes…”
- “Sve se oko tebe ispravlja i savija…”
- “Holiday ro-ah-o-o-o-o-ah-o-o-oh…”
- “My cat said ‘fiddle-i-fee.'”
- “Что кинул он в краю родном?”
- “It was Friday morn when we set sail…”
- “Red are the sunsets in mystical places…”
- “If I had a million dirhams…”
- “Ipse galeos, O cara, bellos dentes habet…”
- “Two-one-zero, der Alarm ist rod…”
- “He brewed a song of love and hatred…”
- “Into the sea, you and me…”
- “And near me on the grass lies Glanvil’s book…”
- “…where the reading light was better, meow-meow-meow.”
- “Try to stop my world from turning…”
- “All the dishes got broken, and the car kept driving…”
- “Wild kind of look to the day…”
- “…as your little boat struggles through the warning waves.”
- “Hey-ho, rock ‘n’ roll, deliver me from nowhere.”
- “Between our quests, we sequin vests…”
- “…and a fire-dance through the night.”
- “High time is no time for deciding…”
- “I don’t bother chasin’ mice around…”
- “But she didn’t understand; she just smiled and held my hand.”
- Bardzo dziękuję – takk fyrir – danke schoen – thanks.
- “Sacré-sacré-sacré-sacré-sacré Charlemagne…”
- “I really love to watch them roll…”
- “Have to believe we are magic…”
- “Medicine is magical, and magical is art…”
- “It’s obvious we’re cooler now…”
- “When everything’s quiet, will you stay?”
- “Les yeux sans visage…”
- “Tusk…tusk…”
- “And the fox is on the town-o…”
- “I read about it free in a fifty-cent illustrated guide…”
- “Once, there was this kid, who…”
- “Get out of the road if you want to grow old.”
- “Dann sind wir Helden…”
- “…as the flames rose to her Roman nose…”
- “Ask me, I won’t say no, how could I?”
- “Ask them in, and invite some more.”
- “When you were born, they looked at you and said…”
- “Give me a word, give me a sign…”
- We interrupt our regularly scheduled program…
- “And God said, ‘SYS 49152.'”
- “Er war so exaltiert, because er hatte Flair…”
- “They rose up out of a sinking sand…”
- “Green thoughts come around every now and then…”
- “Silhouettes and shadows…”
- “In the house of the gods, where no mongrels preach…”
- “What was the question? I was looking at the big sky.”
- “Keeping versed and on my feet…”
- “Everybody’s coming, leave your body at the door…”
- “So let the wind blow, carry me home…”
- “…comme il pleut sur la ville.”
- “Perfume came naturally from Paris…”
- “Put our product to the test, you’ll feel just fine…”
- “Plastic tubes and pots and pans, bits and pieces…”
- “Silver people on the shoreline, let us be…”
- “…when streams are ripe and swelled with rain.”
- “If you’re in the swing, money ain’t everything…”
- “Go right to the source and ask the horse…”
- “It’s a thousand pages, give or take a few…”
- “He koude rooste, and sethe, and broille, and frye…”
- The tap-tap-tapping of the typewriter pays…”
- “And if anything, then there’s your sign…”
- “Something like a recipe, bits and pieces…”
- “I go out into the market, where I can buy or sell…”
- “‘And join with us, please,’ valkyrie maidens cry…”
- “Behind bolted doors, talent and imagination…”
- “Come down off your throne, and leave your body alone…”
- “Well, at least there’s pretty lights…”
- “Some kind of verb, some kind of moving thing…”
- “Dragging behind you the silent reproach…”
- “For I smell of the earth and am worn by the weather.”
- “Your face, your race, the way that you talk…”
- “Now mister, the day my number comes in…”
- “He’s making friends in places high above…”
- “Looking in shades of green through shades of blue…”
- “I guess I’m always hoping that you’ll end this reign…”
- “You raise the blade, you make the change…”
- “If I listen close, I can hear them singers: oh, oh, oh…”
- “Gunter, glieben, glauten, globen…”
- “She began to wail, jealousies scream…”
- “I know it all from Diogenes to the Foucault…”
- “Ngibambele duze kumakaza…”
- “Do you nervously await the blows of cruel fate?”
- “Stuck at the dog-end of a day gone by, boy…”
- “A villa in France, my own cocktail bar…”
- “My story’s infinite, like the Longines Symphonette…”
- “Think of every town you’ve lived in…”
- “Vituð ér enn, eða hvat?”
- “Flags, rags, ferry boats, scimitars and scarves…”
- “…but then my homework was never quite like this.”
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- “Merciless, the magistrate turns ’round…”
- “The check’s in the mail, and I’ll see you in church…”
- “It isn’t the mice in the wall, it isn’t the wind in the well…”
- “Check if you can disconnect the effect, and I’ll go after the cause.”
- “Rhymes so loud and proud you hear it…”
- “And he threw away his looking-glass…”
- “Probi fuimus, sed non durabimus…”
- “Si rex solum unum dies essem, dederem omnia…”
- “And it takes a knight, and a girl, and a book of this kind…”
- “Ertu þá farin, ertu þá farin frá mér?”
- “Angels we have heard on high, tell us to go out and buy.”
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- “It was dark as I drove the point home…”
- “One more drop of poison and you’ll dream of foreign lands.”
- “Jumpin’ fences, dodgin’ trees, and tryin’ to get away…”
- “Put it all down to chemistry…”
- “There were plants and birds and rocks and things…”
- “A winter’s light and a distant choir…”
- The Tale of Charlemagne and Ralph the Collier.
- “In you I confide, red dragon tattoo…”
- “Gleymum sorg og sút, og sinnisgrút…”
- “I’m looking for cracks in the pavement…”
- “Smelled the spring on the smoky wind…”
- “I am a monster, I’ll make you run faster…”
- “Nun danket alle Gott…”
- “…gearowe oþþe na, her cumað cnihtas suðan.”
- “On Thursday, watch the walls instead…”
- “Is that my teasmade?”
- “I hear in my mind all of these voices…”
- “Looked at my kingdom, I was finally there…”
- “Bring me my broadsword, and clear understanding…”
- “Floating in this cosmic jacuzzi…”
- “…and no one knows but Lorelei.”
- “Now the D and the A and the M and the N…”
- “Strut on a line, it’s discord and rhyme…”
- “As Grendel leaves his mossy home…”
- “A secret to be told, a gold chest to be bold…”
- “…our only goal will be the western shore.”
- “On we sweep, with threshing oar…”
- “With a snow-white pillow for my big, fat head…”
- “One gun added on to the one gun…”
- “And you touch the distant beaches…”
- “Rent a flat above a shop, cut your hair and get a job…”
- “Jenny and Johnny getting smart, it seems…”
- “Back in the early morning aviaries of Marathon…”
- “And folded in this scrap of paper…”
- “Get to know the feeling of liberation and relief.”
- “So I walk up on high, and I step to the edge…”
- “So we go inside, and we gravely read the stones…”
- “…to leave you there by yourself, chained to fate.”
- “Hey there, laddie, internal exile…”
- “Walking in the park, dreaming of a spark…”
- “She knows what she knows, I know what she’s thinking…”
- “We are detective, we are select…”
- “With his long, red beard, and his sister’s weird…”
- “Get the world on video…”
- “But you, you’re not allowed, you’re uninvited…”
- “He met the gazes, observed the spaces…”
- “And when you declare the point of grave creation…”
- “He couldn’t quite explain it, they’d always just gone there…”
- “Flying birds, excellent birds…”
- “Jane, Jane, tall as a crane…”
- “Painted in a corner, and all you wanna do…”
- “All around the world, statues crumble for me…”
- “I’ve got my helmet on, nothing can do me wrong…”
- “You spend all day looking for a parking spot…”
- “Just a glimpse, and then a quiver, then they shiver to the bone…”
- “When I am king, dilly dilly, you will be queen…”
- “Just a slob like one of us…”
- “I will walk in the garden, and feel religion within…”
- “Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike…”
- “Cartoon capers happen in reality…”
- “…but when it’s your brother, sometimes you look the other way.”
- “Takes more imagination when everything’s remote control…”
- “Spring’s a girl from the streets at night…”
- “Breaking open doors I sealed up before…”
- “I’ve heard it said, or maybe read…”
- “And in this town of stops and starts…”