It Don't Rain In Phoenix

Rains again like every day the day before

10 different ways

streets as slick as glass

and the green light glows

dusk gives up the ghost for now

my bones stay cold and I'm feeling how

the desert sun is calling out my name

I tell them where I met you

underneath the Coal Creek Bridge

they look  at me with sympathy

when you whisper

the way you enunciate

polyvinyl acetate

makes me think you are more agile than you appear

operatic in her grandeur,

plumpuscular, muscular, absolutely glistening

 with slime

 one misty Sunday morning,

 coal creek running after rain

 I saw the biggest, blackest, coldest, slickest, slowest, slug there ever was

she said hello

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She said I’m Black

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I’m sure you never ever met a gal like me

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I take my time

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don’t cost a dime

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I am divine

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I’ll make a squeamish weeping willow sapling scream

She eased me down from off the ledge

didn’t need as much whiskey to get right in the head,

 she sorted out my day with something good

then one night the phone call came, she could tell when I walked way

leaving her to fret alone in our tiny livingroom

broke it to her like poetry,

the dusk gives up the ghost for now

my bones stay cold and I’m feeling how

that Greyhound bus is calling out my name

she said, but it don’t rain in Phoenix

and when you get to sweating it burns a like hell

we’ve had a good time baby

didn’t expect I’d ever have this much to tell

It don’t rain in Phoenix

I might melt in the sun

there ain’t no slugs in the canyon

there ain’t no “us” on the run.

so I put her on my shoulder,

hiked back up to Coal Creek Bridge

lifted up a rotten log set her down

in the patchy fog, slime trails

starlight bouncing off bubble frogs

balls strung so tight I couldn’t see no way around it

hitch up my grocery sack

cans and clothes and a folded map

grab me  a seat all the way in the back,

diesel fumes make me hungry for some eggs

I wonder about my hermaphrodite,

she made me feel half way allright,

scorpions can’t do it near as like she did.