Lizard King

”My poetry aims to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.”
Jim Morrison

 

I’m the lizard king
born of Texas
and the big beat
the big heat

I am the changeling
the back door man
the wild child
from love street

takin’ the crystal ship
on a moonlight drive
gonna break on through
to the other side

waiting for the sun
with riders on the storm
we’re no ship of fool
beat the roadhouse blues

at the end of the night
when the music’s over
gonna light my fire
like a devil’s pyre

you know the music
is our special friend
we’ll dance on that fire
just as it intends

fire on the river
yes the river told me
then very softly
I want you to hold me

sweet Maggie M’Gill
I want you badly
I love you madly
and always will

be my wild love
rock my world
love me two times girl
five times crazy

we gonna do
a love crash dive
five to one babe
no one gets out alive

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rob kistner © 2023

Poetry at: The Sunday Muse

 





 

8 thoughts on “Lizard King”

  1. I loved him, his music … come on baby light my fire … my ‘go-to-get-my-groove-on’ dance song in 1967!!! Thanks for your wonderful interpretations of the images this week.

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