No Brains



No brains in his own damn brains

Blue and Lonely by the Rolling Stones

Her daughter married Pat’s nephew

They danced with Anita at the wedding all night long

Along the babbling brook lives a restaurant caterer

He bought a place up by the lake

He lies so much he don’t know what the truth is

He’s never on time he's always late

Marconi red peppers and have a heart deer away

Listening to John Mayo and Joe Bonnamaso

No brains in his own damn brain

Only rolls of banding material and an old AM radio



Robert

2020

John Prine

My heart aches in a way it has not for many years. The loss of John Prine is the loss of years of love and holding onto a memory. Memories of someone who knew the words to every song, memories of a war fought for all the wrong reasons, memories of a time when we were young and the music brought us together. John Prine is the reason that I write songs, he is my true songwriting hero, without him, Bob Dylan, Kris Kristofferson, and Hank Williams to emulate and embrace my words may not exist. John is a legend and has inspired so many to say whatever it is that they have to say. I send love and condolences to the Prine family for your loss. We who listened and loved share your grief. 

Robert
April 8, 2020

Hotel Room

Drinking coffee 

Lying in bed

Writing to you

We should be

Making love

Instead

Robert

2017

Passion

To want but to hold back and have restraint on your feelings and your actions is very difficult. To want something so bad but not pursue it with every fiber of your being is certainly not my style. I am not one to hold back my feelings as I am sure you have noticed so for me to not give everything to someone or something that I am passionate about is not easy for me. I need passion, I thrive on it, I pursue it, I live for it, I think that it is the most important and driving factor in our lives. For to have passion is to feel, is to be alive, to endure the hardships and the struggles in an effort to remain strong and steadfast in our commitment to achieving life's pleasures and to provide opportunities for others in our lives to partake in our passion and feel what we feel by sharing and giving of ourselves freely. Ah, passion, yes, it is wonderful isn't it? I know that you share my sentiments is why we are so good together. To be able to express freely is something that I know we both crave, and we give each other that opportunity, yet I hold back for some reason still, if I was turned loose who knows what we could achieve together. Nirvana baby, nirvana...

Robert
2017

My Mona Lisa

She lives in this little thing that I type into so madly

She is a dime store novel queen

Black as coal with hair of purple curl

She calls herself Jennifer but inside I think she's really Danny 

She works at the local barbershop cutting hair for twenty dollars 

Putting gel in people's hair is her calling

She smokes her cigarette as we talk the old man and this queen of barbers

I'm afraid to think of what she looks like without her makeup and her wig

So I won't I'll just imagine that her beauty is for real 

Cause it really doesn't matter

She comes from Ethiopia her husband brought her here

To wash and clean his clothes and make his supper

He told her that he loved her while seeing someone else

Another woman in the apartment right above her

Now her kids are grown and she lives alone

In the midst of Prince George's County

This refugee with purple hair who cuts hair for twenty dollars 

Everybody loves somebody sometime

And everybody has something to say

I wonder if she noticed that I didn't need a haircut 

When I walked into the barber shop today

Robert 

Russian Hackers

Russian hackers go away, find somebody else to fuck with!

Robert

Thats All I Have To Say (RIP Leonard Cohen)

Some people come to you in life and some people come to you in death I'm gonna love you baby until my dying breath

I wanna thank you all for leading me to the hole I wanna thank you all for not showing me the door I'm gonna love you baby until I ain't around no more

I don't know where I'm going but I sure know where I'm from I'd like to think that it's from heaven not from being oh so dumb I'm gonna love you baby as I ride off in the sun


I'm gonna love you baby
I'm gonna love you baby
I'm always gonna love you

That's all I have to say

Some people say I'm crazy for all the things I do and say I just want to tell you baby right here this very day I'm gonna love you baby every night and every way

What a fool I've been to think that love plays no part in all the things that I have done and that I'll be forgiven by every mothers son I'm gonna love you baby while I'm out here on the run

There no end in sight there no where to turn it's only love that always seems to be the main concern I'm gonna love you baby is the only lesson that I've learned

I'm gonna love you baby
I'm gonna love you baby
I'm always gonna love you

That's all I have to say


I can't stand the pain as I stand here in the rain why did you have to tell me that love would never be for us again I'm gonna love you baby cause I know it ain't no sin

If you don't want me baby I have nowhere else to go it's been you for so long and all I've ever known I'm gonna love you baby until the end of the show

Sitting by the river down here by the shore where there ain't no one to talk to and there ain't no one to love I'm gonna love you baby like I never have before

I'm gonna love you baby
I'm gonna love you baby
I'm gonna love you baby
Until my dying day

That's all I have to say


Robert
2016