TUMBLE

TUMBLE I saw you take a tumble fall off the stairway to heaven that great guitar riff playing in the background and so you fell plunged further hit harder than him hurled headlong in that poem by Milton the whole of humanity screamed at your fate demanded you be saved but you did not, could not budge your crimes, though spin-doctored were insanely terrible.

SAME

SAME

found myself Christmasing
in the House of Led Zeppelin

my younger brother
having usurped my rock influences
and extended them beyond
my wildest imaginings

every page in the library here
resounds to Jimmy Page
guitar pyrotechnics

remember this solo, this lick,
this riff?
am cluster bombarded
with questions where I could not
be further from answering

seems like
from Tangiers to Birmingham
to Kashmir

the song is forever changing
only in the most abstract sense
ever
remains the same