Tanvir's Favourites

From the dusty mesa Her looming shadow grows, Hidden in the branches Of the poison creosote. She twines her spines up slowly Towards the boiling sun, And when I touched her skin My fingers ran with blood. In the hushing dusk, under a swollen silver moon I came walking with the wind to watch the cactus bloom, A strange hunger haunted me, the looming shadows danced I fell down to the thorny brush and felt a trembling hand. When the last light warms the rocks And the rattlesnakes unfold, Mountain cats will come to drag away your bones. And rise with me forever Across the silent sand, And the stars will be your eyes And the wind will be my hands.

Farewell Angelina The bells of the crown Are being stolen by bandits I must follow the sound The triangle tingles And the trumpet play slow Farewell Angelina The sky is on fire And I must go. There's no need for anger There's no need for blame There's nothing to prove Everything's still the same Just a table standing empty By the edge of the sea Means, Farewell Angelina The sky is trembling And I must leave. The jacks and queens Have forsake the courtyard Fifty-two gypsies Now file past the guards In the space where the deuce And the ace once ran wild Farewell Angelina The sky is folding I'll see you in a while. See the cross-eyed pirates sitting Perched in the sun Shooting tin cans With a sawed-off shotgun And the neighbors they clap And they cheer with each blast But, Farewell Angelina The sky's changing color And I must leave fast. King Kong, little elves On the rooftoops they dance Valentino-type tangos While the m...