dennis O'Toole

well, it's true... and not just 'hearsay';

no, death don't have no mercy...

not in this, or any other land...

I'll tell you this, and you may as well believe it;

llie just is what it…

he's a modern day yodeling hobo... ramblin' across this land...

singin' all them old railroad songs, a battered guitar in his hand...

standin' on a busy street corner... singin' for nickels and dimes

tryin' to brighten up…

well, I'm standin' here a-singin' for your nickels and your dimes

if you can't spare some silver, won't you stop and spend some time?

bein' broke, ain't no joke; but it sure as hell ain't no crime...

hard times will…

darlin', when you do the dance... my poor heart

takes wing upon the wind...

I suspect romance... takes a fresh start;

time and time again...

and I know I'm not saying nothing new to you...

but I'm inclined to tell…

... " there ain't much call for unpublished poets...

       or unheard  singers of songs..."... 

   ... well... this couplet comes to me from the far flung days of my early 'hotel' existence... I signed on to the Trans Canada Pipeline the…

hotel walls so thin... like the set from a theatre stage...

conversation so stilted and stiff...

through the drapes... a piece of a small town sky

I'm tongue-tied and tempted to quit

what remains to be said... is just the…

anywhere in america... hair trigger tempers flare...

anywhere in America... you can get caught in the cross-fire stare...

how in heaven do you stand a hope in hell...

f breaking this godless law-abiding spell?

it can turn on a dime...…

'...(friends...let me tell you about a dream I had...)...

I dreamt Mark David Chapman met that coward Robert Ford

they became fast friends on Mark's very first day in hell...

Chapman talking trash, and expecting to be taken at his…

if beauty is in the eye of the beholder

I'm beholden to her... for giving back my sight

no matter how many times I might have told her

what she means to me; I never quite get it right...

it…

tell me that you love me... tell me that you care...

tell me that you love me... I need to hear it again and again...

...

darlin' I know that we can't always live in...

the heat of the moment,…

you're asking me to 'think it over'... seems that's all we ever do

I don't want another lover; ...if I can work this out with you

times it's hard to believe; the things we put each other through

still, I…

if you could tell me, what's on your mind, darlin'

maybe I could be of some assistance...

they'll all try to sell you that old line about 

'love being blind', baby... we could prove that all nonsense...

...

I believe…