I’ve got nothing today. So I decided to write some poetry as if Charles Bukowski and Tom Waits had a love child. I was wondering if you’d be inspired to collab, break out the resonator* and create a bluesy track and read this like a beatnik tone poem over it. (*or anything that strikes your fancy). If not, no problem it was fun to write.

A distant symphony of snowblowers gnaws at the morning— metal teeth chewing through my apology for last night.

Fresh snow on the ground, already being violated, thrown in high, glittering arcs that fall back down as slush.

Chain-link fences hunched over, like rusted out old men in unheard prayer. December light limps across the roads To an inflatable Santa bowed to the drift, half-buried, permanently waving.

The sky’s the color of tired dishwater. Cold smells like nickels and old keys. Kids practice their joy indoors like it’s something you rehearse before the door busts open.

In my apartment the radiator knocks like it’s got a warrant. The tree from the gas station leans against the wall like it’s tired of pretending it grew up somewhere beautiful.

Outside, the snowblowers start again— clearing, carving, correcting— while the fences keep their silence. I pour another drink and toast the white blanket, covering up the beer cans and cigarette butts in the gutter like it was doing the city workers a favor—

the snow, the machines, the white ground already bruised by boots. Christmas hums on the wires. Bright. Electric. Unblinking.

And somewhere, in a house too loud with laughter, a barcalounger sits empty while the snow keeps falling soft as something no one’s listening to.

Not sure what post production steps you do now but this video might be of interest:

Scott...me too... trying to use AI based on guitar/vocals and lyric.... and as you can tell on my site here ...it doesn't get any attention... I have used it for demos for artists and labels some... but not sure totally how it is being responded to ..there. I guess...to some degree... if they knew me and my process they might like them more. Kind of cold calling in most cases....David

Hi, Scott, I just sent you an email about a possible collab.