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I am God— Without one friend, Alone in my purity World without end. Below me young lovers
The ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond and jade, Sit silently on their temple shelv… While the people
Only dumb guys fight. If I wasn’t dumb I wouldn’t be fightin’. I could make six dollars a day On the docks
I play it cool I dig all jive. That's the reason I stay alive. My motto
Listen! Dear dream of utter aliveness— Touching my body of utter death— Tell me, O quickly! dream of aliv… The flaming source of your bright…
My old mule, He’s gota grin on his face. He’s been a mule so long He’s forgotten about his race. I’m like that old mule —
When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left
I sat there singing her Songs in the dark. She said; 'I do not understand The words’.
I’m all alone in this world, she s… Ain’t got nobody to share my bed, Ain’t got nobody to hold my hand— The truth of the matter’s I ain’t got no man.
Now dreams Are not available To the dreamers, Nor songs To the singers.
You sicken me with lies, With truthful lies. And with your pious faces. And your wide, out—stretched, mock—welcome, Christian hands.
Because my mouth Is wide with laughter And my throat Is deep with song, You do not think
Tell all my mourners To mourn in red — Cause there ain’t no sense In my bein’ dead.
I was so sick last night I Didn’t hardly know my mind. So sick last night I Didn’t know my mind. I drunk some bad licker that
The gold moth did not love him So, gorgeous, she flew away. But the gray moth circled the flam… Until the break of day. And then, with wings like a dead d…