Dog on a Chain

Dog on a chain

What do you think he wants more?

To get off that chain?

Or to chain up everyone else?

Or just to bite someone or something?

It depends if you're in or out of the storm, I guess

Here's the hardest of the law:

You are righteous only as you suffer

Which excuses no transgressions

And you would have children

No soul yet ever clamored to be born

And living is only consolation 

Euphony (Tomorrow's Sunrise)

Lucinda Williams

Emmylou Harris

Larks in the trenches

Emmylou Harris

Lucinda Williams

Larks in the trenches

Lucinda Williams

Emmylou Harris

Larks in the trenches

Don't be so shy

Margo Timmins

I almost forgot

Flat

Immigrant man aspires

Scales a mountain of tires

For me

Fate

Infinite wisdom

The snow in the trees

Spring will arrive

Last Poem

First he went to the show, not to disappoint the boy

People die 

They die all the time

That's mostly what they do

He killed him, but you were the murderer

He came home because he didn't want to die in the rain

No wake, no funeral

And the album he was listening to was Time Out of Mind

What are the last thought
 Of a man on the train

                 In the rain, halted between stations

                                                 By flooding further down the line?