Name: Thomas Of Pomona
Duration: P00H03M03S
Description: My tribute to Tom Waits

Thomas Of Pomona

from The Obscene Gravity Of Silence by Paulie Lipman

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My tribute to Tom Waits

lyrics

Sorry, Big Guy but due to your rigid criteria

and lengthy application process, sometimes

we just have to make our own saints

We slapdash them in stained glass paint

mixed with our daily frustration,

wind and whimsy

Horace

protector of blown tires

Philomena, champion of

cracked back, side walk mothers

Chester

the patron of broken harmonicas

Zevo

custodian of sad melody

Others

are stamped in ink blood

wrapped in the merchandise necessary

for modern day martyrs

Che of Rosario

Martin of Atlanta

Ian of Manchester

and

John of Liverpool

But mine still walks

singing golden whiskey razors

cloaked in thrift torn shroud, swaggering

unrepentantly

spider woven windshields

carnivals

blown out Chevy’s

drunken pianos

box car jumping and

late night heart break

These

are all his province

St. Thomas of Pomona

His anointment is black coal and greasepaint

His altar, a Bally tent

No one speaks side show anymore

We are too timid to

walk the back alleys of our own deformities

Our hearts

have ceased to story

imaginations gone hard ‘round the edges

leaving us nothing but cold analysis, banishing

all of the shadows

Our sin

is all evil and no lesson when

dragged back to the guilty light of noon

We congregation, are ready to leave the

rough hewn repentance of this boxcar confessional

and be reborn, bathed

in the night flare of Alabama 3 am

High priest

of Pork Pie Hat

We

have come to sit in the flicker of

your trackside tire fire

Cast your crooked light into the

black boogie dark and

report back to us

Regale us with song

and watch over us in this,

our time of conformity

Protect us

the true freaks, on the wrong side

of the geek’s cage

Amen

credits

from The Obscene Gravity Of Silence, released March 15, 2011

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about

Paulie Lipman Denver, Colorado

Paulie Lipman has been a part of 8 Denver National Slam Teams(including '04's second place and '06's national champions). His work has appeared in The Legendary, Borderline, and the Write Bloody anthology: The Good Things About America.

In addition to Spoken Word, Pauile is also a musician/composer and is available for hire for commercial/video game/soundtrack work. ... more