When I Go

When I Go
c 2016 by William S. Kowinski

When I go don’t have to forward my mail/cause I don’t get any
 when I go don’t have to pay my bail/won’t cost you a penny

when I go I’ll be wearing a mask/so you won’t recognize me
when I go my net worth will be low so you can’t amortize me

 don’t get bees in your bonnet if I wrote you a sonnet
 instead of finding a buy-in
you think we’re getting rich but we’re just digging a ditch/
for us to lie in

 when I go it won’t be a blow you won’t find it vexing
 when I go I’ll make my farewell address while everyone’s texting

 when I go you can drop out of school get a job that’s steady
 when I go the morons will rule but they do that already

 did you find it surprising that the temperature’s rising haven’t you been listening? if they’re all blowhards when you pass by the graveyard why are you whistling? 

when I go I’m taking my name on a long vacation
 when I go I’ll take all the blame for procrastination
 when I go I’ll mail back the key but it won’t fit any longer
when I go the air won’t be free cause the sun will be stronger

 will anyone remember when it snowed in November and the world was quiet
 will they regret we knew what we would get if we tried to deny it

 when I go at the end of the show there will be one hand clapping
 when I go you won’t even know I’ll catch everyone napping
 when I go I take what I know it’s gone forever
 and when I go I go with the flow it’s now or never

 We all have to follow what the days will swallow as the world stays busy
  theres no time to make another rhyme before it makes you dizzy

Something in the Morning (Something Else in the Night)

This is a song lyric.  I haven't posted these before here but they are another form I've worked in for many decades.  I've also written the music, which in this case came first, with the two line refrain.

SOMETHING IN THE MORNING (SOMETHING ELSE IN THE NIGHT)
copyright 2016 by William S. Kowinski

Theres something in the morning/something else in the night
 something in the morning/something else in the night

 Grandmother in the garden/spider woman tells her tales
 butterflies spin around you/like packages in the mail

How many weeks till christmas/how many days of rain
the porch light on for supper/sleepy whistle of a train

Moron threw the clock out of the window/because he wanted to see time fly
 how many days without you/with no memory of goodbye.

 there's something in the morning, something else in the night.
 something in the morning, something else in the night.

Burning on the sidewalk/ of the life you could not see
 there’s nothing here that’s for you/ but maybe to believe

College was depressing/everything sad but true
 you learn that life is tragic/for everyone but you

She sits down at your table/ with her stained glass smile
 she takes you back to her apartment/for your free home trial

something in the morning...

You go back to the office/to try to make things right
 you peer into the darkness/as if its just another shade of light

In the deep blue of the evening/when the lights begin to glow
 it all has such potential/but it’s all you’ll ever know

Your destination is programmed/into your new device
 but you don’t have to go there/just think about it once or twice

There's something in the morning...

The future mocks the present/the present stares at the past/
lost in the viral moment/of the shoes that do not last.

A breeze wrinkles the curtains/ a bird sings Beethoven’s fifth
the highway sounds like the ocean but the yearning never lifts

Hummingbird at the feeder/blue cat’s come to play
 he said life is no 10 point program/it’s what you do everyday

There's something in the morning/something else in the night ...

From here the ocean seems so endless/sun shining in your hair
 but you know we’re just all tourists/spreading poisons everywhere

Thieves and liars above us/they hide in the brightest light
 we don’t seem to learn anything/just take another bite.

They take everything from us/with the power they have bought/
they get away with everything it doesn’t matter if they get caught

 something in the morning...

Buffy won’t take the freeway/Tom won’t get on a plane
 I don’t like escalators/you don’t know where they’ve been

Watching for your car for hours/never thought you’d be that long
 a hundred times I saw it coming/a hundred times I was wrong

These days with you discover/the colors of the deep
 they’ve spoken of devotion/in our castle keep

 there’s something in the morning, something else in the night
something in the morning, something else in the night

I started the water running/ I can hear when it gets hot
 wash away the chalk marks/ between what's real and what is not

 Hope is what she’s doing/ in a world coming unmade
 be kind and be useful/no time to be afraid

This scene is dissolving/ into the one to come
 it must be getting near the end but/ I guess we’ll have to let it run

Theres something in the morning something else in the night
 something in the morning something else in the night