The Honeyspot Motor Lodge  (B. Crouch) 

Here it come now here it come now here it come

At the Honespot Motor Lodge where all the stains have their own 
stories

there’s a girl black shopping bag swaying with her hips syncopated gate lollipop eyes 
read the numbers on the doors

It’s that place that she calls
home

I think I’ll stop here for the night 
try not to make up my own stories
about the bed sheets try not to think about the slick greased remote control

Get to bed now get to bed now get to bed

Watch some TV Discovery all about the common housefly
If I had 600 eyes I’d be up on the ceiling
Next door room forty-four I saw her key turn there today

The blue light before dawn
Desperation 
Last chance cigarette
Tail lights deep deep red
Dreading daybreak 
Happy to be 
alive

Here she comes now here she comes now here she comes




Sounds like an old song
It’s a place and time I’ve never known
What is it about?
Flowers that never bloom 
Did you pay the bills in the morning?
Yeah, with a paper napkin
Then I stole the flowers,
digits and lipstick
adorning the window of 
the room next
door

I know they raised you right
Cuz you put up a fight
I’d like to see you win
Summer nights and gin
Another drink with me
And I’ll let you be

Oh this rippling river, its hypnotic waves
I’d like to stay and stay and stay and stay and stay, yeah

Then you can go home
I’ll just sit here alone
A little drop of sin 
Let’s the devil in

Oh this wicked river, it reflects my ways
and I could stay and stay and stay and stay and stay, yeah