For Mike & his new Book

Beautiful city faces of the dead Burning lovely bones Courageously played in d minor  Lonely troubadours paying dues For the planet spinning sideways Gone but not surrendered… Chalk white bone Ashed and thrown Scattered amongst the asphalt Or secretly kept in urns No way out of this vortex A quartet of emotion! A pint of compassion! Producing the eventual uniqueness Of love. You had the raw edge          flip side of hard is soft          flip  side of hard is soft I was one of the fortunate Who witnessed the soft Behind the flip side; Beautiful city faces of the dead Courageously played in d minor Joie Cook, February 2010 Back to Vampyre Mike

painting and text from back cover of book