I know I will not make it back
to the computer before
Adam’s licks start swagging my soul…

BOMp, take me, baby, take me
to Miami!! “The skyline, baby,
is bright tonight.“ Reverberate me,
In New Orleans, reverberate
me, again, and again, down into Miami.

(Repeat me, defeat me, wake me
to this music, to you, love me, love you.)

“The skyline is bright, tonight.”

“It looks like darkness to me,
drifting down, into Miami…”

Drums beat, beat me blind, happily inclined
to hear guitars, and symphonies, to become…,
to me, within he, repeating, to hypnotize myself
to music that completes me…

“What can I say,
I wish that this weather
would never leave
it just gets hard to believe,
that god sent
this angel, to watch over me,
‘cause my angel,
she don’t receive my calls,
she says I’m too dumb to fuck,
to dumb to fight, too dumb
to see, well maybe I don’t need no angel,
at all…it looks like darkness to me, oh,
drifting down, into Miami…”

(Licks within licks, reverbed words, silently
smooth, yet devastating…)

“She can pull the sun right through me,
coming down, into Miami, Miami.”

Cyclic instrumental, pulls me
Through Miami…

“Make a circle
in the sand,
make a halo
with your hands,
make a place
for you and me
to land.”

(Land me, please.
Lick me obscene, I am
music, gleaned, from you).

Bomp. Bomp bom bo bomp.

My body moves to Adam.
The Christmas tree lights
add an interesting vibration,
I love it!

(your voice…)

“Let’s go shut it down
In New Orleans…”

Come on, baby…
Your colors inflect me.

“Let’s go shut it down,
In New Orleans…”

Oh, yeah…repeat.

“Guess I think,
I feel alright,
Then you come surfing,
Through the light,
The skyline, baby,
Is bright, tonight.”

Repeat, repeat…
CD, replete me.

Erin Moen
12/13/03
Copyright 2003 ©

Quotationed passages, Adam Duritz,
Counting Crows CD, “Hard Candy”