dave steger

Urbanology

Give me verity cause I need some clarity.
The vestries losing its gold, and you wanna to test me?
What you don't know is that yesterday,
As the rain fell onto the lake,
I looked around and found my big mistake.
A cherub came to me and gave me wings,
Told me about life and all sorts of things.
Like the old rings, pings, and dings-
Of broke-down palaces and dying kings.
I stopped at the Pylon,
It told me to go away but I sensed I should go on.
In-between the pillars of dire,
Where people burn in a never-ending fire.
Screams come from below,
While everyone sits atop pretending they don't know.
That someone just breathed their last gulp of air,
Cause nobody was there to care,
Man this world is so unfair.
It's as if we don't see all the signs,
Of the changing times.
I heard you say this life is like a race,
But I am going to a different place,
At a different pace.
I thought about it for some time.
In the morning I stretched and moaned,
This body I decided must be honed.
I will sculpt a machine,
So I am quick and never seen.
Running around the globe,
In a cloaked robe.
What will I see?
What will I be?
Will I find she?
Or simply me?
It's ok, for I'll be free…
Free of doubt,
Full of answers,
Though with a mind numbed by tiny-dancers.
Tapping all over my thoughts.
I worry that I need a linchpin on my brain,
So I don't go insane.
Losing everything in the nepenthe,
Asking myself if it could be?
The door is locked and my key-
My key it went missing,
A couple on the stoop is scrappily kissing.
A wino is behind the dumpster pissing.
I just want to go and lay in my bed,
Put pillows over my head,
Wake up in the morning and forget what was said.
For urbanology is all up inside my head.