Invisible like all the reasons
Dark and cold like all the seasons
Things are not as you would have them

I'm no man and yo're no woman

I guess I hope to see you sometime

Though our paths will never intertwine again
I hope you notice
I'm no hare and you're no tortoise


And I'm touched by the same sad feeling of dread
Just to know that you can't wait to see me dead

An idea in your head and a compass in your hand
On a mission to a foreign land


So now I'm out for political favors
A salary that corresponds with labor
Big house and a morning paper

Good fences that make good neighbors

I'm at the end

This here my rope
Another year to write and read the book I wrote
No dialing out

For a good time
To bathroom wall
Toss it a dime

Dead king dead swing
Ali look out!
We have new rules

To do without
You talk of Jesus
Until I'm well red



The man is

Swimming
Swimming
Swimming in my head

Why settle down?
Why even try?
Me tiger mouth

Meet bloodless eye
So drop dead stock
What hallen tree?

I leave New York
For other cities
Which let me play

With gas and fire
Took out an ad
Best friend for hire

Know that Mama told me
Never to come
But I cam softly, slowly

Banging me metal drum
Like Berryman
Bed-wet poet fears

That better men drink taller beers
Like scientist
I lost my glove

To bloody fists
And harder drugs
So split the night

And we get young
Like sacred cow
Without a tongue who sang a song sing

"time does not cut deep but cuts most absurdly....."
so la da dum