Last night again
You were in my dreams
Several expendable limbs were at stake
You were a prince spinning rims
All sentiments Indian given
And half baked
I was brought
In on a palanquin
Made of the many bodies
Of beautiful women
Brought to this place to be examined
Swaying on an elephant
A princess of India
We both want the very same thing
We are praying
I am the one to save you
But you don't even own
Your own violence
Run away from home
Your beard is still blue
With the loneliness of you mighty men
With your jaws and fists and guitars
And pens and your sugarlip
But I've never been to the fire pits
With you mighty men
Who made you this way
Who made you this way
Who is going to bear
Your beautiful children
Do you think you can just stop
When you're ready for a change
Who will take care of you
When you're old and dying
You burn in the Mekong
To prove your worth
Go long go long
Right over the edge of the earth
You have been wronged
Tore up since birth
You have done harm
Others have done worse
Will you tuck your shirt
Will you leave it loose
You are badly hurt
You're a silly goose
You are caked in mud
And in blood and worse
Chew your bitter cud
Grope your little nurse
Do you know why
My ankles are bound in gauze
Sickly dressage
A princess of Kentucky
In the middle of the woods
Which were the probable cause
We danced in the lodge
Like two panting monkeys
I will give you a call for one last hurrah
And if this tale is tall forgive my scrambling
But you keep palming along the wall
Moving at a blind crawl
But always rambling
Wolf spider crouch in your funnel nest
If I knew you once
Now I know you less
In the sinking sand
Where we've come to rest
Have I had a hand in your loneliness
When you leave me alone
In this old palace of yours
It starts to get to me I take to walking
What a woman does is open doors
And it is not a question of locking
Or unlocking
Well I have never seen
Such a terrible room
Gilded with the gold teeth
Of the women who loved you
Now though I die
Magpie this I bequeath
By any other name
A jay is still blue
With the loneliness
Of you mighty men
With your mighty kiss
That might never never end
While so far away
In the seat of the west
Burns the fount
Of the heat
Of that loneliness
There's a man
Who only will speak in code
Backing slowly slowly down the road
May he master everything
That such men may know
About loving and then letting go
