Strategies and Scriptures
tactics and tinctures
please leave
a twenty percent tip
at the door Sir

the World's alive with
gangsters and hipsters
you know that Coyote
is a trickster
hope they won't give you
too much lip Sir

Strategies and Scriptures
tactics and tinctures
please leave a twenty percent
tip in the church plate by the door Sir
and note that our morally decent
postcards cost extra

light a candle for the lost
light a candle for the missing
light a candle before the frost
set it at the north side of the
oak tree where you'll find
the curling green moss

no telling who it is really for
but while on your way
it could happen that
your paths may cross lifelines
in island towns where dinner theatre
and concerts are played in the round

a bottle of wine of
the grape cabernet
warms with a ruby sip
and lingers on your thirsty
lips as you swing and sway

the bouquet is
aromatherapy
the taste reminds me of
why I am alive and
gives me mastery
and an insight into the Mystery

rapture in the moment
Strategies and Scriptures
tactics and tinctures
light a candle for the lost
light a candle for the missing
Light a candle before the frost

the apache kid