by Marc Gunn, February 23, 2005

It's taken me over a year "research" this song (boy, if research were like this in college...). At long, I finish it. The song is a parody of the Scottish song, "The Bonnie Ship the Diamond." It tells the story of the "coolest" character on the British TV show "Red Dwarf." Course, it was written for my Irish Drinking Songs for Cat Lovers."

The mining ship the Red Dwarf
Is careening off into space.
Three million years its been adrift.
You're the last of the human race.
You were frozen in a stasis tube
For saving Frankenstein
The cat race Grandma was in the hull
When it became "Gazpacho" time.

--chorus--
And it's cheer up MREOOW!
How I'm looking now?
On the mining ship the Red Dwarf
I'm the coolest Cat around.

I'll have one fish for my breakfast.
I'll have two fish for my tea.
I'll learn to fish from the food dispenser.
Six fish is all I need.
I wear my suit of gold lamee
And earrings like fish bones
I spend my day investigating
And playing with my Yo-Yo. (Look at my shiny thing)

If the despair squid gets his way
I may lose my cool and flip.
Imagine I have buck teeth so big
Druids go there to worship.
Some may say that I'm a shallow guy.
But the Inquistor knows it's true.
But an arse like mine is quite divine
So have a look or two.

Here's a health to my man Ace Rimmer
Likewise to Frankenstein
Here's a health now to that mirror there
I can see I'm looking fine.
My organs are color-coordinated
My stomach is feng shui
My heart it thumps with a funky beat
Like a salsa dance gourmet.

I'm gonna get you little fishies
I'm gonna get you little fish.
I hope I don't break another tooth
In a future echo rift.
Then I'll play a game called Better Than Life
Have a mermaid girlfriend
She's top half fish and lass below
And tastes good on both ends.

by Marc Gunn, February 11, 2005

A poem reflecting on a woman I dated a while back and saw again not too long ago.

Glancing back in the
  rear view mirror,
Seeing beauty with a strawberry
  glow and golden hair;
Hints of reason
Made desires swollen
  in suptuous lips,
    Valentine cheeks,
And eyes that light up a
    room.
She has a way that
  connects the dots
  of an imperfect universe,
While I ponder two dots
That blossom and glow
Into anthems of motherly
    love.

Our eyes dart across darkened waters
And back to the serene
   silence
Overdue to two fish
Out of water,
Flopping around admidst circumstance
  and timing,
Like the photo album
  in the hands of a four year old boy
Reaching, yet ever untouched
Longing for a simple cup of Joe
To press to her lips
While cars speed
  past with lights
  blinding an aroused
    imagination.

by Marc Gunn, December 30, 2004

There's something about visiting a city like Rome that combines over 2,000 years of history with cats who've been around much longer. Add to that a little romance, and you have the makings of this lovely bilingual poem.

E basta?
Will you sleep tonight?
When you awake
Will you remember
E cambia la mente?
Decide che this was exhaustion,
A passing romance
That disappears with the
   morning crows of un fidanzato.
Or something more?
Like un gatto
That rests on a pillar of time,
A monument to two thousand
   years of civilization
Brought together beneath
The soft paws of a silent meow.

by Marc Gunn, January 1, 2005

I was eating in a small taverna in Venice when a loving couple inspired this love song.

Their hands reached across the table
With a smile so amiable
Her cheeks lit up the room
When her fingers reached her love's.

You can search a thousand years
For a love that will make you feel
Like the beginning of all creation
Began in her green eyes.

When you find her,
Then you blind your
Roving eye and mind her,
And the love you were designed for
Will follow you where ere you go.

Her hand leaned on her cheek
As she opened her lips to speak
The man drank every word
Like the beer he held in his hand.

I saw his search was done
When his eyes touched her tongue.
The smile they wore was one,
And I wished that it was mine.