We Make Love
by Pete Marchesi Introduction
That has told us not to sit. And to lean back when we see war and the killing.
Sitting
Sitting and observing The world As it goes… there
I don’t know What to keep from it My old body Just does not want to know
My old shirt Lies on the ground I think it was from somewhere My eyes sparkle but I do not want to know
My family is here somewhere Why do I keep on trying There are tears in me I am trying to share But the body prevents it From lying
Still from somewhere There are tunes that do not need to be played I prefer The silence
As it is always… walking towards me
The shrill cry The never going back And I say time is rude
Let me stay a little while But I am just sitting
And there is a hole in me I want to know more Or at least hide from
I cannot… share The emptiness I feel is continuous My family…
My mother is old now And she will die I cannot stand the thought And as we draw close
There is a shudder
My Body Is Pulverized
By the rude incantations of others That is all that we live on Possession by others We say there was the moon And it was a pretty good time there
That is all we are Promiscuous for what the world may… feed us I want no more of it I just want to commit suicide Because they are impinging on me They have refused me sex
Where do I go I sleep But will not wake It is an absurd idea Of them treating me Any other way
There are cigarettes And ways to go to the moon But the secrets are all… held inside And my body does not want to know
It does not… want to know It says it is sleeping And not to take the pills There are so many of them
And the doctor is always obvious Is that the right word To make him so large as a discontent Saying that disease is secret As we nullify
Another part of our… existence My sister is at the restaurant Making all the money My brother is away making all the love He will sleep with her on the beach
My body is stretching out It is trying to be And it is night Please do not let me go there There is no sex in silence That is the worst kind My body bends to meet me “I am tired” it says I must
Listen to it But the words have come and gone
Past
Travel
I want to go to Canada But leave my body here I have eaten Pork and garlic
The butter slipped away I left the table Getting… my body out of the way My poor step-father is home After at 86 working all night
He prays to God that I will make it So he might have some peace in his life
He will travel And go through the arguments My sister is tired of it
So where… are they I will travel Because it is too expensive And I have sores all over my face
My body has left me Let me not to consideration tell… things There is no enemy And as we hold on We are told to be romantic I have no word for it The danger I feel as it unfolds There are words that are told And those that order
This family is still alive But each is alone to the enemy And we make enemies to everyone Let me stop
Please Let Me Breathe
There is talk about Italy And I am… sitting The cars do not work My sister keeps on bumping into things But God has held us high And told of us coming together
It has grown old in the wind The dogs have greeted us Where was the perfume
I still have a ways to go And the breathing holds me back I do not want to be in a rush I do not want this suicide So I tell my body My mind is all that I have got
Everything has eaten away at me And I am satisfied with the cigarettes You want to make victims of all of us
And there wouldn’t be a better thing to have heard
You are… rude You want This suicide And I will not give it You say the demons surround me There is only you
And you… are alive There are many of you You live to tell another
And evil you are That my body will disappear
And you tell me falsely to keep strong But your words strain out of your mouth
Like the thorns of an Acacia You will not let me up! You will not let me up I give my body to you If you want suicide I will give it
Just a moment
Sex
“A beautiful love poem I have not seen let me read And take your body for my own For to stay alive With all those ‘ants’ around you How do you feel about dying”
I have not heard it yet And death is never simple I cannot listen to you
And the night took them both away As I sat and smoking
The words churned And stood in a stare We are here My hands were crying Out To me
Take us away We simply want to murder you The demons that we know That keep the craziness of this place
I took that away But where did you go To interfere And tell lives to be different So we were not just sitting there
When death came
And I lingered
And I Lingered
In it’s tragic disguise The atom bomb Came and exploded It ran the souls away And every moment of their Faces
It tears and scrapes them To be so alive And these men with their dark smiles Standing there
The affront! But it frightens no-one And America is an Angel in the eyes of the Lord So to simple men we go in anguish Wishing that we were not the ones That must halt this heavy disguise
We must sweep it away And have children in amazement For we are gone
We are gone…
To different parts of the world Where we have traveled far We will not say The religion of which That stands As we travel To say no more of exploding bombs in the night And when we were there
We stood around and took photographs Let it work out says my step-father to me That I write and am heard I am just sitting here!
In astonishment That we could be so… cruel That we are men Menacing and unforgiving Of kindness!
The Present Twist Of Fate
That we are the same men Of other That killed off the tribes And told that stories Were to be put away And that learned men Should not exist!!
How could you? How could you prevent Any peace from occurring and for so long Century after century you have taken the world up You have put it into the ground With your soundness Of Christ we will only know better
You have said to me To prove that this dead man Lied to us Lied…!
Exasperation
Of gentle wind How… can I know How… can I climb to the top of a tree and see anything… It is invincible That you have destroyed desire We streak around in cars With no clothes on Denting our bodies Which has left me
And said there are no accidents Only fate You reason that we are alert And known
And that you… will be heard How can you promise that to anyone My mother bows She is next This nervous woman That will not
I repeat will not
Tread Carefully
Now that you are undone And coming apart As you take your possessions to another place It pleases me Says Odin And it is his voice
“Presently known is the force Of nature That makes sure of sex and finance That smokes cigarettes And laughs at someone else’s pain
We are not here I declare. We are not here. And it all ends up in this smoky balm. I declare. I am not fit. I cannot fit in here. Where you say there should be more men. Of sacrifice. I cannot fit. And still you move towards me.
I will not go this Satanic clout That infuriates me”
Oops That we live And I start laughing majestically I am of peace And just want to fit in Excuse the cigarette And I won’t even know you You know… I am witchdoctor To clean the pain of the mind
We will not go We will not go to war And make money for you as you always once… Was
S o to trib e we will find And believe in any contrite So the weapons we will not know! W e a re of peace And you may enjoy the fury Of us coming down and annihilating you all I will not… commit suicide Though you have prevented it Every little step that I take Towards some new… Thing
Peace
Let me have peace And smoke my cigarette There is a long Indian in me That does not… want to forgive you And after the peace
We will make war on you! Because it is the only thing that you fear
You usher in your greatness It is a pea
In the face of the Gods
You do not know And talk about them blandly And want to have sex with them
Because it makes you feel better about your life
We will not go…
We make love