He's out in the woods with his squirrel gun
To try to recapture his anger
He's screaming some words at the top of his lungs

Until he begins to feel younger
But back at his desk in the city we find
Our trembling punch-drunken fighter

Who can't find the strength now to punish the length
Of the ribbon in his little typewriter


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Poor Fractured Atlas
Threw himself across the mattress

Waving his withering pencil
As if it were a pirate's cutlass
I'm almost certain he's trying to increase his burden

He said "That's how the child in me planned it;
A woman wouldn't understand it"


I believe there was something that I wanted to say
Before I conclude this epistle
But you would forgive me for holding my tongue

'Cause man made the blade and the pistol
Yes man made the waterfall over the dam
To temper his tantrum with magic

Now you can't be sure of that tent of azure
Since he punched a hole in the fabric


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A woman wouldn't understand it

A woman wouldn't understand it