Lie down upon burnt black pastures
Of blossoming red flowers of fresh cut roses and yellow tulips
That last no more than a life’s hour

I tried to keep laughing with them
At myself, and join 'em
But my throat and mind became dry
Only then, I knew my escape would be suicide

Don’t slit wrists around vampires
They’ll suck flesh to bone
Or leave hair torn and without a comb
While organs and muscles become a new empire of stone

I was going to commit suicide because of them
Because of him
Because of her
Because of me

But now that I can see
What I have seen
I have realized
Life is too grand to ruin
Over my whims of them.

A Dying Sun

Sing without a wisp of breath
Night has fallen, the day is done
And looking over the waterfront
The sunset cries, hating to die
All life is focused toward death
And unto death, do us part
Young or old it’s a start
Dying with or without dignity, morality, and purity
Doesn’t matter what is said or done
What matters is what we become

Our bodies decompose in the dirt of wet worms
A life of white lies, till we take ourselves alive

The sun has no choice
Nor a voice
It serves only to chase the blackness
From the white driven snow.

Puppet Show

A plastic puppet show
Where heroes become those who play child’s games
Heroes become those with the green
Heroes becomes those who are always seen
Heroes become those who are unkind and mean

Love not out of passion
But out of security and survival
Wealth enters the emotion of fear and respect
As the poor feel the biting tension of regret

A puppets show on a plastic stage
A parade of strings bound in a cage
A puppeteer biting the pop stars glue
Puppets biting the mind that guides you

Ego blinds good judgment
Wreckage is caused by road rage
My head keeps ringing
Think the puppets got a page.

A Spirit of One is a unique and rare book of an American Indian tribe-the Caddo. The Caddo tribe dominated mid-America both socially and politically. This book reaches deep into the past history of the Caddo, and emphasizes the ways of the Caddo's social order, law, history and philosophy, and for the first time brings out cultural aspects unknown about the Caddo. The author descends from a hereditary line of Chiefs of the Oat Family, and is also a 1989 graduate from the University of Oklahoma with a degree in History and Political Science.