New and selected poems 1966-2020
Who do you see?
Trying to find the plot
I keep losing my spot
Keep racing against this clock
I feel like the guy that time forgot
Nothing is clear to me
So i take a step back to see
All the things in front of me
Because the b.s. behind me
Keeps trying to catch me
Everything gets scary
As the hands on life's watch ticks its last tock for me
So let me replace this battery
With all the hate you been feeding me
All the while tying to keep my integrity.
All these struggles testing me
Is bound to make me unleash this beast burning inside of me
But it just might be time I release this energy
So you folks can feel the pain deep within me
All this anxiety is killing me
Asking myself is this really the real me
Or is it just a side of me
Been there the life of me
No more
I should have seen the signs
They were written on the walls
But I guessed I missed them
With my back against this wall
All good things come to an end
But damn why'd I have to fall
All these thirsty wounds
In this pool of alchohol
The drop was unexpected
A total foul ball
I hit the ground hard
Barely breathing at all
Gotta get up get back on my feet
How can I maintain
How do I stay sane
When filled with all this rage
And all this fucking pain
How can I make change
With all this on my brain
Sometimes I'm just emotionless
I guess I'm numb from all this pain
I'm about to go insane
Waking up one morning to the reallity that all things you used to know you will never again know.
All the things you thought were true now leave you sick like the flue.
The say time heals but who has the time to get thru
All the things I want To say to you
But I realize you will get yours when your time is due
Love can be medicine but more often affliction
So No longer will you shit on my affection
I've sat and I hurt but no longer from you
I realize now through many a clue
That moving on was long overdue
Your an artist of heart aches and ruptures
But watch closely as your world erupts
And your surrounded by vultures.
You've unleashed emotions
Ready to influence a culture
I hope you cringe when you see my face on a poster
I'm taking this gun out the holster
Listen close your toast
Your done it's over
Time I release the heat from this toaster.
I'm life's roaster
I'm taking mine back I told ya
Who do you see?
Trying to find the plot
I keep losing my spot
Keep racing against this clock
I feel like the guy that time forgot
Nothing is clear to me
So i take a step back to see
All the things in front of me
Because the b.s. behind me
Keeps trying to catch me
Everything gets scary
As the hands on life's watch ticks its last tock for me
So let me replace this battery
With all the hate you been feeding me
All the while tying to keep my integrity.
All these struggles testing me
Is bound to make me unleash this beast burning inside of me
But it just might be time I release this energy
So you folks can feel the pain deep within me
All this anxiety is killing me
Asking myself is this really the real me
Or is it just a side of me
Been there the life of me
No more
I should have seen the signs
They were written on the walls
But I guessed I missed them
With my back against this wall
All good things come to an end
But damn why'd I have to fall
All these thirsty wounds
In this pool of alchohol
The drop was unexpected
A total foul ball
I hit the ground hard
Barely breathing at all
Gotta get up get back on my feet
How can I maintain
How do I stay sane
When filled with all this rage
And all this fucking pain
How can I make change
With all this on my brain
Sometimes I'm just emotionless
I guess I'm numb from all this pain
I'm about to go insane
Waking up one morning to the reallity that all things you used to know you will never again know.
All the things you thought were true now leave you sick like the flue.
The say time heals but who has the time to get thru
All the things I want To say to you
But I realize you will get yours when your time is due
Love can be medicine but more often affliction
So No longer will you shit on my affection
I've sat and I hurt but no longer from you
I realize now through many a clue
That moving on was long overdue
Your an artist of heart aches and ruptures
But watch closely as your world erupts
And your surrounded by vultures.
You've unleashed emotions
Ready to influence a culture
I hope you cringe when you see my face on a poster
I'm taking this gun out the holster
Listen close your toast
Your done it's over
Time I release the heat from this toaster.
I'm life's roaster
I'm taking mine back I told ya
Who do you see?
Trying to find the plot
I keep losing my spot
Keep racing against this clock
I feel like the guy that time forgot
Nothing is clear to me
So i take a step back to see
All the things in front of me
Because the b.s. behind me
Keeps trying to catch me
Everything gets scary
As the hands on life's watch ticks its last tock for me
So let me replace this battery
With all the hate you been feeding me
All the while tying to keep my integrity.
All these struggles testing me
Is bound to make me unleash this beast burning inside of me
But it just might be time I release this energy
So you folks can feel the pain deep within me
All this anxiety is killing me
Asking myself is this really the real me
Or is it just a side of me
Been there the life of me
No more
I should have seen the signs
They were written on the walls
But I guessed I missed them
With my back against this wall
All good things come to an end
But damn why'd I have to fall
All these thirsty wounds
In this pool of alchohol
The drop was unexpected
A total foul ball
I hit the ground hard
Barely breathing at all
Gotta get up get back on my feet
How can I maintain
How do I stay sane
When filled with all this rage
And all this fucking pain
How can I make change
With all this on my brain
Sometimes I'm just emotionless
I guess I'm numb from all this pain
I'm about to go insane
Waking up one morning to the reallity that all things you used to know you will never again know.
All the things you thought were true now leave you sick like the flue.
The say time heals but who has the time to get thru
All the things I want To say to you
But I realize you will get yours when your time is due
Love can be medicine but more often affliction
So No longer will you shit on my affection
I've sat and I hurt but no longer from you
I realize now through many a clue
That moving on was long overdue
Your an artist of heart aches and ruptures
But watch closely as your world erupts
And your surrounded by vultures.
You've unleashed emotions
Ready to influence a culture
I hope you cringe when you see my face on a poster
I'm taking this gun out the holster
Listen close your toast
Your done it's over
Time I release the heat from this toaster.
I'm life's roaster
I'm taking mine back I told ya
This fantastic book collects Donald Gardner’s poetry from 1966 to 2020. Which means from the total explosion of Western culture in the sixties until now. Donald is part of that, as one of the first Beat Poets.
His poetry is very accessible and easy to read. Almost like prose, which, sometimes, it is. So, no hermetic texts you can’t understand.
Besides, the author used to perform his poetry as Spoken Word or theatre. And I was privileged to see his “Chicken with Madness”.
The arrangement of the sentences is almost always varied, which makes reading comfortable and adventurous.
Donald Gardner's poetry is also rich in philosophical and observational ideas.
I loved this book,
Walter Joris