Audio

“Hookers and Cocaine”

A fantastical Sigmund Freud story…

Guitar, lead vocals: Craig Hordlow
Drums & vocals: Aaron Xavier
Bass & vocals: Ryan Hailey
Music & lyrics by Craig Hordlow (with assistance by Mike Kopp)

Verse 1
Hookers and cocaine,
Hookers and cocaine,
Hookers …

Audio

The Al Franken Song

Guitar, lead vocals: Craig Hordlow
Drums & vocals: Aaron Xavier
Bass & vocals: Ryan Hailey
Music & lyrics by Craig Hordlow

Verse 1
Now Al Franken is standing next to you at the urinal, what will you do?
You’d like …

Poems

A Good Poem

Gothic style painting of man writing poem, circa 1825.

A good poem
captures the essence
of something, or of everything,

in the fewest words possible.

Truth does not need
to sing, campaign, or serenade;
it might take a lifetime to figure out,
but only a sentence to translate.

Craig

Poems

The Bottom

Picture of a tavern with empty bar stools
The Bottom

I’ve been to the bottom and back.

Sometimes I leave because they kick me out,
other times I get enough sense to leave on my own,
but mostly I can’t remember why or how I left.

Usually I

Poems

Lightning Bugs

Lightening Bugs | Craig Hordlow

You can tell a true lover by the gifts they give.

When you only get them on occasions,
dutifully,
when millions of people probably got the same thing,

Love is coerced.

The true lover finds you gifts
randomly, accidentally;
the

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