I came here today from some body's wake,
With a typewritten page that reads,
"I don't know what to say."

I'm just a thinking reed, a beast with a creed,
And both eyes to weep
The death of Edward Said.

On the sunny side of our sinning streets,
Sir, it rained, rained, rained
On our chance to start again.
On the theatre side of our wingèd streets,
They explained, day-plain,
That I’d never play the Dane

All of the leaves are lit by one.
All of the leaves are gone.
And know it true: the dawn isn’t you.

Don’t believe them as far as they go,
And then they go.

Don’t believe them as far as they go,

GATAGA - written here are we,
Male
And free as a factory -
GTGAA then GCG- Oh, blessed quaternity!

Gone! We’re gone!

Written here are we,
Male
And free as a factory:
GTGAA then GCG- Oh, blessed quaternity!

You’ve my heart.
Give me my heart.
Who knows when I’ll need it?
To make love
Or to make art
Or to take a bullet?
To take a bullet.

“…call to me
All my sad captains; fill our bowls [once more];
Let's mock the midnight bell.”
Let’s choke the midnight bell!

The planets
Drop their orbits,
Leaving, swinging, π
Like a gallows in the sky.

“…call to me
All my sad captains; fill our bowls [once more];
Let's mock the midnight bell.”
Let’s choke the midnight bell!

You know it’s true: I put a little world into you.
I fought at sea: you put a little world into me.

It came to me, came to me, came to me
Wrapped up in black light.
And it's goes from me, goes from me, goes from me
Wrapped up in blacker light.

Bring my red medicine
When the air turns enemy.
Bring me now the oily pelt
Of every President since Roosevelt.

Bring that flask of amber fire!
Book the Black Panthers' Gospel Choir!
Hey, Mercury, do one thing for me:
Fetch a light for this acid leaf.

I'm aloss again,
Under private rain.

Falling through the earth,
Head first through Arizona.
Slaked my bloody thirst.
I never felt aloner.

Falling through the earth
With one small splash of sand.
Chaining Death to Birth
With one thin ampersand.

I'm aloss again,
Under private rain.

Falling through the earth,
Head first down through the land.
Slaked my bloody thirst.
I never felt a pang.

A widow in a hearse
Rough-riding across the plain.
Let's make out like we both
Never felt the pain.

All my blood is yours.
Babe, tread my grapes of wrath.
Organ donor whores!
Just spill 'em in the bath!

I'm going to blow your mind,
And you know that it's time,
Yes, you know that it's time.
I'm going to bare my brain.
Doctor, shake that champagne!
Perhaps you know what I mean?

As I wander wide,
Along the tide,
Along the line of electric blue:
Ooh! Ooh! Ooh!
My! My! My!
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!

I can smile for days.
Look me in the face:
The eyes are drooling Mace.
Is it really worth my time
To maunder through this line?
Perhaps I'm not a good guy.

As I wander wide,
Along the tide,
Along the line of electric blue:
Ooh! Ooh! Ooh!
My! My! My!
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!

A hundred proof,

We stayed up all night
And sucked
The bullets from the gun,
Taking credit for
The exhumation
Of the sun.
We were young
And full
Of lucky guesses at the truth.

Oh, won't you have it be?

We loved kosher food
And you
And J. B. S. Haldane.
Outside Angel Tube,
I curled
These words around the rain:

Oh, won't you have it be?

I need your madness to stop
The sadness.

Oh, won't you have it be?

Drag the boat ashore
And rip the rose from your lapel.
Wring the change from your
Pockets and ring the sodden bell.

The sea superjacently enskies my sea mates.

Set the boat to blue
And zip the sea up to your neck.
Then reflesh the crew
And feed their souls back to the wreck.

The sea superjacently enskies my sea mates.

I loved you when you were young.
I loved you when you weren't young.
I loved you when you were born.
I loved you before you were born.
Who loves you better than I do?
Who hates you better than I do?

Drag the boat ashore
And rip the rose from your lapel.