Oz— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
Poetic lady … Kansas and Oz …
two reflections of the same thing
in our eyes … changing life.
That you can sometimes change
from one to the other
what does it matter …
stand still and they will both blow by
I’m a little bitter or melancholy, perhaps
I’ve been pressing the Oz out of life so long now
that all I hear are the lonely rumblings
of my emotional freight trains running thru the nights
some coming … some going.
Their whistles scream “Oz” … “Oz”
their journeys always end in Kansas
Not too long ago
I thought I was better than conventional love
and I left the fireside to run for the trains, repeatedly
but now I doubt that I was up to it … love …
trains always drop you in Kansas
and Kansas ain’t much without firesides.
Gallagher
Long Beach thinking about Kathi K.
05-23-78
Archive for the ‘Years’ Category
1978-05-23 Oz
Tuesday, May 23rd, 19781978-05-23
Tuesday, May 23rd, 1978 and when the dust had settled
she realized she was still in kansas
and God but its hard to stay in kansas
after you've been to oz
Kathi K.
05-23-78
— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
1978-05-23
Tuesday, May 23rd, 1978Easy now life…don’t take me too hard— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
I can’t stand to walk so suddenly
into the endless views of nothing
but the results of what my deeds may be.
It seems you’re swapping now…day by day
coming on stronger with pain and pleasure….
Kathi calls it Kansas and Oz
but it just worries me…with no place to fall.
Rose’s name has blown away in the wind
and these others like shadows come and go.
Oz today…Kansas tomorrow.
I feel the flow coming down on me,
my life is hard a-press
and I’m distilled out to where
dreams and reality have come head to head.
Hear me, life…don’t walk so hard.
I want to love you gently…
without bitterness or tears.
gallagher
23 may 78