small flowers crack concrete
narcotic squads sweep [bad word] poet dens
spilling coffe grabbing 15 yr [bad word] girls
by frazzled ponytailed hair + tossing them
into backseats of cop cars
the narcs beat the bearded oracles
replacing tantric love [bad word] violence

lights + mirrors dot the city
inkstained hippies w/ boxed lunch + marijuana
mystery plays of [bad word] and nothingness
blessed by colors from a black hat

blue lights search [bad word] weeds
searching for the heart of d.a.levy
and the mind he left behind

what didjoo expect? another mystic wreck?
thats whatchoo got crawling in yr panic net
whatdidjoo bring me? not a [bad word] thing yet
+ whatdidjoo leave me? another tombstone dream yeh
o salacious mansion, the boys held for ransom
didja see where he's gone? the blasted summers dawn [bad word] up in cleveland [bad word] up in cleveland
short flight to nothing heavens up to something heavens up to something
levys up to something levys up to something

death poems for the living gods of america
plastic saxophones bleat, bleed for nothing, nada
cops crashing [bad word] doors infuriated by silver charms
of suburban smoke
at war with patches of red dirt glitter
and bluejean [bad word] + protest