Archive for the ‘Long Beach’ Category

1977-12-18

Sunday, December 18th, 1977

         Turning hard on these turning points,
           my life and yours
           are bound by so many threads.

         The morning light on your face
           the curve of your back
           my memories of your love.

         I hold you to chase away that hole
           in my stomach, but it just won't go
           because you're no longer mine.

         You can only hold me
           and whisper that your sorry for the hurt
           and I hold you closer for something that's gone.

         A flood of feelings at these turning points
           awash in the light of my new life
           I sit confused and searching
         Through these snapshot memories
           and Fellini futures....

                                 gallagher
                                 18 Dec 1977

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

1978-01-05

Thursday, January 5th, 1978

Well I’ve been a wandering fool now
running free with all my time
and I’m coming into my thirties
with the things a gypsy finds

got some wine to pass the evenings
got some food to break the day
got my eyes for all the ladies
hey now, send me one this way!

got my friends to share my time with
got my friends to go my bail
and its always up and out now
though we’re dying all the way

no, I never knew the time like
I know it now the way it flys
watch your mirror tell the truth now
watch the lines begin to gain

gallagher

05 jan 78

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

1978-01-09

Monday, January 9th, 1978
            Smile and flow, touch our cells
               streams of time bound in form, we
            the seeds of suns burn in our eyes
               cast in the relief of these moments
            children of chance, the best of nonsense
               laughing it all away
            we run on and down scarlet streamers
               universes dying to become real
            our cells are our templates, timeless
               behind these moments, our loves, our deaths
            I love our smiles which never cease
               and as our passion bears us again
                  the ground waits beneath us forever
                              gallagher
                              01-09-78 - about helen k.
                              long beach

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —