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…and the Rabbi said, “oh the Angels - They are just machines. They have no soul. Not worthy of Life or the Book.

Well I live in the City of Angels
and it was built beneath Heaven
sO I could feel what is to be a Man
to know the love of a woman
to smell the earth
swim the seas, taste a coffee
and smoke a cigarette

A place to find a friend
fight an enemy
a place to be hunted with words
and healed with a kiss
A place to forget and forgive
what cannot be forgotten or forgiven

To hear the caw of crows
and the silence of a merciless clock
that runs around in circles

and in the cracks of the divine
grow the vines that entwine
and bind, live and die, turn a blind eye
to cries for light, in the night but
the price cannot be paid
the wages cannot be saved
and everything just goes away

Where are you my love
I looked in the bright lights
and the quite places
in the faces of strangers
and those I know well
I have told so many lies
always believing they would lead me to the truth
but its just no use

My heart beats with the insistence of a child
who screams something bad
a lecture from Dad
when I was your age….
You were never my age
You cannot save me from making your mistakes
No its my turn to break the circle
but the circle cannot be broken

I marry my mother, slay my brother
and a thousand times we say,
never again”

The clatter of cups and plates
a glass of wine - fill it up
with gasoline and eye make up
dark glasses and French fries
40 days all its done is rain
Good to see you again
but that does not explain why
we missed the train
We should have changed
when we had the chance
fate or circumstance
no one make a bad decision on purpose
You never know
Until you know
that you will never know
and then its time to go

Good bye, I wish you well
When we’ll meet again
I cannot tell
Its back to school -They’ve
Rung the bell
In the City of Angels