DISABILITY and ABILITY ©2013 Jay Schiffres

Born without a voice

Parents thought him slow

When he finally spoke

Had temper tantrums

A little older

Couldn’t make friends

Hated school

Dropped out

Flunked out of tech school

Got a lowly job

Treated his wife badly

Played around they say

Divorced

Not exactly a role model

Oh, He did have a quest

And an equation

E=mc2

A WAY TO LIVE (C) 2013 Jay Schiffres

Just Walking toward What ©2013 Jay Schiffres

Dreams come and go

It’s time to awaken

What’s  in your veins

Gonna leave it like this?

Content in nothingness

Hugging the past

Your children won’t pick up the trail

I know you understand that well.

No one is to blame

That’s understood

But when the fault is plain  

Will we meet again?

Happy Ween Day; Dylan Stuff; The Wise Man; She Loves Me (c)2013 Jay Schiffres

Im gonna rock and roll
till my brains fall out

                            Im gonna rock and roll

                                                Till my brains fall out

Not So Fast(The Wisdom of Yogi Berra)

 © 2013 Jay Schiffres

The world slips away?

Had its day?

Run to the shade?

No. Life is rolling

This way and that

Nothing is forbidden

When dancing with the light

Evil possibly

In sad brains

Well then,

Dance mightily

For another day

No cosmic explosion  

Keep moving on

The mechanical age is passing

Lost its initial charm

Life rolls through it all

Rolls on the land and seas

It ain’t over till it’s over

Here, there, and in-between

"RENT" (c) 2013 Jay Schiffres

Don't ask Me
I just Doodle

(c)2013 Jay Schiffres

Father and Son
Mesmerized
Computerized
Hypnotized
Fantazed
Together

(c)2013 Jay Schiffres

Guard Dog (c) 2013 Jay Schiffres

Leaving Home

If you come home

I will be there

It’s only fair

Since I sent you away

I have to pay

It’s me not you

It’s only fair

To love the one who got away

Only fair

That I stay away

Gonna miss you

Gonna feel blue

If you come home

There’s a room here

It’s only fair

Half Time Blues (c)2013 Jay Schiffres

I stand before you

With my head held high

You said your leaving

For another guy

Good bye my lover

Ain’t gonna die

From the

Losing you

At half time blues

House of Pancakes (c) 2013 JaySchiffres

JUNE (C)2013 jayschiffres

RIVER RAT (C) 2013 Jay Schiffres

I got soul on the river

I’m a river rat

Got soul on the river

I’m a river rat

Got soul on the river

Just like that

They say I’m a fool

How bout that

Tell me I’m not schooled

Just like that

Say what you want

Do what you must

I’m heading for the mountain

That I trust  

Got soul on the river

I’m a river rat

Soul on the river

I’m a river rat

One day soon the river will burn

You had your time

Now it’s time to learn

Soul on the river

I’m a river rat

Soul on the river

Just like that

Take your children

And your property

The tide is rising

Can you believe?

In soul on the river

Soul on the river 

Soul on the river......

Shavout (c)2013 Jay Schiffres

Dreaming

Had a dream

Found myself

In the Holy Land

Everything painted with multicolored sand

The Rainbow plan

Brushed my clothes and began to walk

Saw camels and Bedouins

And Arabian crowns

Saw Dancing

And Laughter

People high - found  

No blood on the paths

Or guns on hips

Exchanged for smiles, joy, love

Universal kisses

No screams of pain

Just prayers of forgiving

Lied down

Under the tree

Where Jonah had been

Understood why G_d saved Nivian

And I smiled at my faith

And I smiled at the wind

Awoke - up tall

Can’t waste time

Return filled my soul

With an ancient refrain

Do unto others…………

Shabbat Shalom(c)2013 Jay Schiffres

Simple is good
Things will come 
And go
In the money
Out of dough
Just go slow
There’s a plan
Smile 
Simple is good
And to all
A Good night
(:

Sabbath Table (c)2013 Jay Schiffres

Lock and Load (c)2013 Jay Schiffres

LOCK AND LOAD

Can the blind 
Be excused
For stumbling 
As the Senators 
Vote on the death
Machines
Its ok to shoot 
Ask questions later
Especially when paid by the NRA
Why we put up with this
You got me 
We have idiots
Casting votes with green greed
They could care less
When children 
Bleed from what’s left of their heads 
I suppose they would 
Vote for Marathon bombs

CHICKEN POPA BLUES

CHICKEN POPA  BLUES © 2013 Jay Schiffres

Can’t happen here is what you said

So how did we all end up dead

North Korean dynasty

Aiming our way

Well they won’t hurt us

Hide your faces

Wait a few years

Fat boy will leave

No reason for fright

Be wise and discrete

You got everything to lose

So run with your feet

No reason to bare your arms

Once was a country

To weak to see

Loving their lap tops

But forgot how to think

Can’t happen here is what you said

Can’t happen here

Bugging (c) 2013 Jay Schiffres

Conventinal Wisdom (c) 2013 Jay Schiffres

Can you say

Which way

Down the dusty road

To freedom

Death is easy

When it comes naturally

For Popes, Mullahs

Rabbis, Priests

Sacrificial lambs

Blood on the horizon

Bayonets fixed

In churches of gold

Slogans sung in the park

Girls in flowing dresses

Marching for peace

Streets of Chicago

Whose next to fall

When the frigid wind blows

Through the frozen avenues

Splashed with blood,

Water and hate

A magazine photo of our distraught woman

Shocked at the lifeless kid

Who needs

Attention

We all do

Down the dusty roads

To freedom

MOM

Mom-March 15, 2012 –Hilda Schiffres

She left a year ago

I shocked myself and the misery

Out of my heart

Harder then dying

To live that night

But now I have to let her go

I can’t hold the pain anymore

It wouldn’t be fair

Someone said she’s in a better place

What does that mean

Is she shaking up heaven

Arguing with the angels

Or just sipping wine

Most likely doing charity as was her way

And my legacy

One day here

One second gone

Don’t be sorry for our loss

Be happy for heaven’s gain  

Her spirit

Dancing in heaven

Enjoy eternity

You earned it

You touched so many

With humor and warmth

Dance with the angels

The floor is yours

So we take leave

But not your soul

Dance with Dad

And laugh with your friends and kin  

A step-child of the holocaust

That turned out right

What a night

When you took that train

No mistake

Your welcome there

With love

Moon Glow (c)2013 Jay Schiffres

Way Up Above

Way up above © 2013 Jay Schiffres

Sitting on the edge of the moon

Looking up at mother earth

Turning like a blue balloon

Got my guitar, stroked a few chords

Wait for the day rise

Not a surprise anymore

Who is to blame

For this job   

Mining for monsters

Cause there’s oil in these caves

Can’t believe how we were made to think

That people were worth killing for the poison in the breeze.

Banished here forever

A working slob

While my children play

Way up above

I got nothing to say  

Just memories of love

Have a fish tank on my head

Wondering what I am

Just give me a drink

And I’ll work for your company

Need  to come up with a plan

For now gonna strum this guitar

Till I turn blue as that balloon

Sitting on the edge of the moon

Looking up at mother earth

Return-Some Day

Return-Some Day © 2013 Jay Schiffres

The Children

The future

Burned, gassed

The families

Burned gassed

And now it is said

That many more died

In 40,000 camps

Spread through Europe

Does this horror ever end

No

It is there for all to see

Through the ages

Never again we pray

For the day

When those souls

Return

From their Exodus 

Thoughts of Chairman Cheta

If the earth never had bananas

There would be no monkey jokes

Life is what happens to you

When there are no monkey jokes

Charles Darwin usual Halloween costume

Mr. Monkey

Man can not live on monkeys alone

“Me and my monkey” Lennon & McCartney

Faye Rae bit off more then she could chew

Tarzan is naked

Monkeys where dresses

“Ma Ma Monkey” “Howard Stern Show”

Some go ape some go monkey

If monkeys were elected to Congress

Nothing would change

ROSE (C) 2013 Jay Schiffres

The Last Country Western Song

The Last Country Western Song©2013 Jay Schiffres

Roses don’t grow

When years take their toll

You can put your money on that

Those flowers don’t thrive

When you’re trying to stay alive

Better cash in when you can

BUFFALOED (C) 2013 Jay Schiffres

 

Buffalo Bill was proud

Of his name

Of his horse

Of everything

He loved everyone

As long as they liked him

If they didn’t

Well that’s another story

Kind of gory

Hell if a cow guy

Can’t gut someone

What is the world coming to?

Listen, if your interested

I have a Rolex cheap

And, let me whisper this,

I got me a drone here

Man it is neat

Don’t use it now

No Sir…but if you don’t

Like someone

Well…..

JOHN

JOHN ©2013 Jay Schiffres

IMAGINE THERES NO DEATH

JUST A SWIRLING GALAXY

LOVE… YOUR LEGACY

IT CAN BE YOU KNOW

WE CAN MAKE IT SO

JOHN, JOHN, JOHN

YOUR GONE

BUT REALLY GONE?

JOHN

YOU STARTED OUR THINKING

SWINGING

YOU WERENT THE PERFECT ONE

BUT YOU HAD A BIT OF CLASS

A BIT OF LOVE AND YES

A BIT OF HEROIN

BUT YOU WONDERED

ABOUT SO MANY THINGS

MANY MYSTERIES

YOU SET SO MANY THINKING

YOU MADE LOVE

ON THE COVER OF MAGAZINES

WE TIP OUR LOVE TO YOU

LIKE IT WAS YESTERDAY

YOU WERE A BOY

AND ALWAYS WILL BE

FROZEN IN TIME MATE

WITH THAT SLY OLD SMILE

YOU DIDN’T WASTE AWAY OR TRY TO ESCAPE

JOHN JOHN

YOU DIED TO SOON

BUT NOW THERES ROOM

FOR ANOTHER ONE

WHO COMES SINGING LIKE A

DRUNKEN TROUBADOUR

INTO OUR HEARTS

WITH A LOVE LIKE THAT

YOU KNOW IT CAN’T BE BAD

New Church in Town

 

We have mass communication

Got Ipods
Got Mac
Got blood
24 hour news

Got everything

Raise your cell phones

To the sun

Worship with us

Plug in
Dance to the
Electric drum

We got it all

 

TAKING IT IN (C) 2013 Jay Schiffres

Taking it in 

Dude Ranch (c) 2013 Jay Schiffres

DUDE RANCH

The dust is rising in New York State

At a dude ranch

A place to escape

Close that gate

Or the horses will get out

They will escape

The dust is rising in New York State

I’m making the best of what’s left of my way

Close that gate

Don’t spur that stead

You might bleed

Or get well

ANOTHER DAY (c)2013 Jay Schiffres

ANOTHER DAY

It’s morning

And you can bet on it

Where did the night go

Or knights

Wearily leaning

On a telephone pole

The sun about to rise

Time now

To sing

Time to chirp

Time to cheer

The chance renewed

For another day

JUST WANT A WOMAN

JUST WANT A WOMAN © 2013 Jay Schiffres

Bungee jumping

From lofty heights

I see angels shooting by

Couple of devils

Along the way

Comes with the night

When it’s said and done

Just want a woman

Who understands

That money is not king  

That life is not a fling

That there’s more to everything

Just want a woman

To stick with me

I swear to stick with her

Just want a woman

Who can read me

As I read her

Just want a woman

To hold my hand

Just want a woman

To stay

Summer

Spring

Winter

Fall

That’s all

And some time to pray

Ghost Rider ---photoScream

if you ever see that bright light
that divides the good and evil
then you have made it
to the Ghost Riders Steeple
don't worry about a thing
it was all meant to be
i took this picture
thinking it was me
see you on the other side

The Waiting Game

I’m  alone

But

My cats

See me

Let me be

They sense fear

Or hope

Confusion

Delusion

And retreat

Where they feel

What I can’t see

When G-d is pushing

Or wishing

Or fishing

He sees me

Naked

Alone

With my fears

Hopes 

Dreams

Waiting

Knowing

My next move

Is up to me

Age Old

Age Old

As I age

In this Age

Fear

Anger

Depression

Has taken hold

My brain screams

I am not old

I have ideas

Possibilities

Desires

And the hope

Of frequent erections