Ballad of Reverend War Character

Miss Mary Jane measures rain in a cracked cup on the sill
 In Embry's last photograph he disappears over a hill
 Darrell Dotson waits in the grass for a fight
 the stars don't shine upon us
 we're in the way of their light
 The new girl in Tahoe has swallowed Sinatra's cum
 A Russian primadonna dances slow on valium
 After the game the benchwarmer can't get a ride
 in space there is no center
 we're always off to the side
 John Parker III steps over a bird on a Wall St. window ledge
 Little Wilkie finds a dead cat rotting deep inside the hedge
 Mahalia Roach dies on a Greyhound coach in July
 in a horror movie when the car won't start
 you give it one last try
 Guinnevere orders one more beer in the smokey pick-up bar
 A burnt out tramp by the exit ramp waits for one more car
 The Latin teacher always smelled like piss
 the census figures come out wrong
 there's an extra in our midst