The Way the Crow Flies

a rock star's ex-wife
now she's in her mid-life
loves the message of joel osteen
she's got backstage stories to tell
the eighties bring back things she's seen
me making a new start I'm trading up these days
in spirit visiting the artesian well

music is
her key spinal tap
and let it be her heart
played bass so many times
and mine carved in the aspen tree
she traveled the world in reverb where
everything rhymes london and paris rolled
out the runway for her she was a fashion model
south dakota rolled out my asphalt carpet harley wheels
that's just how we were black sheep in the family both of us
december's child born to be wild

I'm finding new things
she's never let go of ozzy osbourne
I've let go time stood still for too long
she made an old discovery today I gave it to her
I made an old discovery today too marshall tucker I heard it
in a love song I remember when stevie nicks sang landslide at
her first wedding in the seventies in aspen at the base of maroon bells
both of us not showing age our youthful looks intact but the way the
crow flies the crow lines of the heart tells

Copyright Ms. Sage Sweetwater, Celebrity firebrand lesbian novelist