always a sucker for a story

written after repeated listenings
to The Decemberists’  Hazards of Love CD

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always a sucker for a story

-----listen!    this happened to ME!
once upon a     time 
    out of mind 
I had this dream

strolling  red-caped
through the deep woods
unknowing   on the way    to 
 the wolf
and haven’t we all
haven’t we all
met the wolf
once or twice in a life

haven’t we all
mis-understood a delphic delivery
or dismissed some cassandra

and haven’t we all
heard the siren’s call
the siren’s call
haven’t we all heard the siren’s call

entranced  by the flickering image
 by the weekly cliff hanging fix
teevee  comix   operas  flicks
turning pages in a book
taking the  searching look
 at paintings on the wall
haven’t we all been transfixed

haven’t we sat and day dreamed
 down roads  bizarre and erotic
haven’t we dreamed of sins and
  redemption

seeking a sequence of  happy endings
haven’t we all   taken the Fall
into the glorious mess
of the  tallest tale
sweet and gall bitter
we cannot resist
the insistent  sirens’ call

haven’t we  all
looked  listened   lived
 captivated   gape-jawed

for haven’t we all
heard   the siren’s call
the siren’s call
haven’t we all heard them  call