apologies to Saramago
When god first stuck his tongue down
the throats of adam and eve he left
a jagged shard of rock to screech
and yowl and make a fuss over paradise
the throats of adam and eve he left
a jagged shard of rock to screech
and yowl and make a fuss over paradise
From that day to this none of us has ever
shut up
We’ve developed a complex too from
the rough fatherly frenching a compulsion
to invent new forms of it continually without
even trying or thinking how they might be
received by those so unfortunate
as to share the rock with us
shut up
We’ve developed a complex too from
the rough fatherly frenching a compulsion
to invent new forms of it continually without
even trying or thinking how they might be
received by those so unfortunate
as to share the rock with us
Which was first do you reckon
A laugh from a joke or from someone busting their ass
A laugh from a joke or from someone busting their ass
A hoarse whisper cain confiding to his
brother’s
body just why he killed him
A song or even
a prayer offered up to a god who’d forsaken us
so early gone out to grab some smokes
as our house burned down around us
body just why he killed him
A song or even
a prayer offered up to a god who’d forsaken us
so early gone out to grab some smokes
as our house burned down around us
Whatever the order the laughs all came
down
like lemmings to the sea in a wave
like lemmings to the sea in a wave
We sit here now
children with our toys strewn around us like bodies
wailing that we don’t have more
children with our toys strewn around us like bodies
wailing that we don’t have more