Here is the world foretold in cut and callus
With time still to shudder and stare
Back at the onset of reprieves of blind drunk reverie
In a life of attrition, a blasphemy murmured in prayer.
I hope all will be well. All God’s truth in bondage.
Still better and worse. We see our fathers hanged.
(Rosemary for remembrance.)
Dream martyrdom to forget
(And there is pansies for thoughts.)
That we are snared in the lives and the livers that we get.
O! But to be those wicked with a thousand lives to waste.
O! But to have the faith to sneer at any grace.
O! the lingering delusions picked up along the way
Remain lost with me in the dirt roads, in the days.
So envy any child sunk in the chill of the ocean.
Mourn old innocence sweated through yellowing skin.
(There’s fennel for you.)
And what can be whored has been whored for the day.
(And here is rue for me.)
Just commonplaces in the common way.
O! But to be those wicked with a thousand lives to waste.
O! But to have the faith to sneer at any grace.
O! the lingering delusions picked up along the way
Remain lost with me in the dirt roads, in the days.
So make a life in the relics, the ruins,
The shared stories of the day, and rejoice in the bottle,
Make up wasted hours wiling endless hours away.
So make a home in the wayside,
Scant furnished apartment, bare white walls and echo.
Just commonplaces in the common way.
O! But to be those wicked with a thousand lives to waste.
So feel the bricks against my face,
So feel the ringing in my head,
So feel the whispered truth:
The city of the west is dead.
Where is the swan song that should gurgle through this drink-witted blood?
The blood and traffic echo muffled though an addled static.
So envy any child already sunk into sleep,
As I sing with the liquor, the lust, the distraction in me.
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