1. the swagger

    living the song i’ve been trying to sing, with no melody to hide from

    put to the wind of reasoning heavens and the thoughtless bribes i took

    up in the low-grade teeming hells, moments happening all at once

    i give eye to my lonely toes trying to walk, but oh so crooked 

    dancing days to the glim beat of hope tempered in the strut 

    the swagger of  a full town—settled now in the fog

    tuned to the times running on love like its a song