FROTH
poems by Andrew Todd

Groovy

We huddled together in rusting abandoned cars
our memories twisted by time
our flesh becoming New Jersey

A Loving and Merciful God ate up all the pain
inside our minds
And we remembered how groovy Life could Be

Eternity is so very pleasant when you are a Proton
a Lepton, or even a Quark !

Meanwhile -- in the Arizona Desert
the Devil sat by the river of time
smoking cigars
playing with scorpions
burning passing birds with a flame thrower

The river flowed ---- The river flowed and flowed --------
It flowed fire, gasoline, rubber tires, skulls, pharmaceuticals, and dinosaur bones.

After 45 billion years directing and producing horror films
The Devil died choking on a flower

Free and Groovy again

Yeah, yeah, yeah
You and Me, Babe!

A cool fall night on Jupiter's silver Moon
serenaded by alien crickets and croaking four ton frogs

and We knew without a Doubt
That Love conquers All
And we were Free Forever

Yeah, yeah, yeah
You and Me, Babe!

Poets of the Street

POETS ! Oh you Blessed Poets of the street

Eternity is your destination

May divine love heal your gaping societal wounds

Your thousand forms of madness !

Oh you blessed suffering homeless wanderers

God Loves You more than you realize

Your beauty illuminates this sinful world

God Bless the Poets of the street...

God Bless the starving Painters and Musicians of this foolish world

Eternal Love is your rightful inheritance

God Bless

Amen

The Eyes of the TEETH

Remember the good old days when
reptiles wandered the New York Streets
in long black coats and purple Converse sneakers
you BRUSHED your teeth with Poverty
in rodent infested Hoboken apartments
You pissed in the sinks of Paris
protesting the failure of MAN to change SOCIETY
and the Birds are singing ! and the Birds are singing !
Hallelujah Hallelujah !