Hung over as a dog

In the morning

Like a wailing flailed cat

I dragged myself to the edge

From a crouched hunch

Onto the stage

Dry as a fly’s graveyard

Got my own drumming in my head

Finding standing hard

Then it happened

Hurtling

Reverberating

Don’t you feel it!

Upbeat

Lashing around my cerebellum

Till the brain collapses

And the actual fact of existence

Sticks me to the spot with insistence

I’m shot through with bead whirling

Rolling – Rolling

Dancing through Los Angeles hills

Preach me melodious

Reach me, you reach me

And I understand

Ecstatic perfection

The

Halcyon Band

 

 

By Adrian Spendlow

Halcyon Band