Born like this
Into this
As the chalk faces smile
As Mrs. Death laughs
As the elevators break

a girlfriend came in
built me a bed
scrubbed and waxed the kitchen flo
scrubbed the walls
vacuumed

the lady has me temporarily off th
and now the pecker stands up
better.
however, things change overnight—
instead of listening to Shostakovi

he spoke to mice and sparrows
and his hair was white at the age
his father beat him every day and
lit candles in the church.
his grandmother came while the boy

some people never go crazy.
me, sometimes I’ll lie down behind
for 3 or 4 days.
they’ll find me there.
it’s Cherub, they’ll say, and

a woman, a
tire that’s flat, a
disease, a
desire: fears in front of you,
fears that hold so still

the flesh covers the bone
and they put a mind
in there and
sometimes a soul,
and the women break

almost dawn
blackbirds on the telephone wire
waiting
as I eat yesterday’s
forgotten sandwich

there’s a bluebird in my heart tha
wants to get out
but I’m too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I’m not goi
to let anybody see

Just give me a little atomic bomb
Not too mutch just a little
Enough to kill a horse in the stre
But there aren’t any horses in the
Enough to knock the flowers from a