We Dance In The Dark

 for Judy Garland

I put on an old coat that matches my worn shoes

And make my way up the mountain

To where only the fog blooms

(A headlamp flashes in the dark  the moon looms) 

Faye Dunaway played both Bonnie Parker and Joan Crawford

On the big screen   Judy Garland played Dorothy

In the Wizard of Oz and gave the Tin Man his heart

Her ruby slippers still fit when she died of a drug overdose

In a London hotel  triumphant and alone  

We dance in the dark  here on this mountain of stone

 

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ANNA NICOLE SMITH IN TV HEAVEN

The flashbulbs are so much brighter here
After all  this is the land of laugh tracks
Big screen TVs and Cadillacs
Where games shows are broadcast twenty-four hours
A day and everyone is a winner   the thousand-pound man
And the five-hundred-pound mom
Can Doctor Phil save them?

Her bodyguard said her eyes were fixed and dilated
The coroner ruled that a combination of pills
And chloral hydrate killed her
Rumor has it that Andy Warhol
Has already commissioned her portrait
But Einstein wants nothing to do with it

We open ourselves up to darkness but not to love
Our heads are getting bigger everyday
While our legs are shrinking from disuse
Did OJ commit armed robbery in Las Vegas?
Do flying saucers really exist? Can America be saved?
Stay tuned

 

 

Billie Holiday

A boy tunes his guitar to an open chord
The moon watches him play
A shadow bangs on a tin drum out in the street

An organ echoes in the loft above

Billie Holiday sings in the blue room next door

We rock back and forth and dance to the beat
And so the dream begins

There is a kind of heaven in sleep

The visitors are back again  drifting on air

Their voices falling like waves

(Those thin ghosts that once named the stars)

The old spells are forgotten

A shadow bangs on a tin drum out in the street

We rock back and forth and dance to the beat