SHOW GIRL
I took a showgirl
for my bride
Thought my life	
would be right
Took her bowling
got her high
Got myself a showgirl bride
			
Took a job on the side	
in a health shop
keeps me well
Got my mantra for life
Got my karma
And a showgirl bride

All my life
All her life
All our life
I married a showgirl
that’s for life

She cant work
in the wintertime
I cant work any time now
Go to libraries all the while
Looking for a notice
Looking for a name

All my life
All her life
All our life
I married a showgirl
that’s for life

I took a showgirl
For my bride
Sprinkled stardust
on my wife
Took her bowling
got her high
Got myself a showgirl bride
Don’t you recognise us?


LENNY VALENTINO	
There were mourners on the street 
of every shape and size
The motorcade came down from Redondo
Assassins on the corner tried to throw you a line
You dirty-mouth comic Rodolfo
Lenny Valentino reside
The Pope renounced you as the real one
Lazarus decided to rise
The twentieth century had only begun
Ladies adverted their eyes
Lenny Valentino reside 
John Judnich in the bathroom reading the law
Kitty in the hall with your mother
The girls are sick and tired of your blah blah blah
Some beat-kid said there’s no other
and that’s Lenny
Valentino reside

BAILED OUT
Your star is descending
Round here blindly
Tell your dancing daughter
That there’s no room
on the wing
We can bitch
but it ain´t a tinsel town
Hey! Starchild
Cant dance
Left out on a useless  limb
This party will start
To drag you down
Slap your face
And pull your hair

Bailed out, bailed out
Bailed out, this skin is head
Bailed out, bailed out
Bailed out, this thing is dead

I was in traction
started off smiling
Couldn’t help laughing
I was astounded when
They caught you unware
And some missionary said
That this week
weave got to shoot
All the dancing girls
And then replace them
With satellites instead

Bailed out, bailed out
Bailed out, this skin is head
Bailed out, bailed out
Bailed out, this thing is dead

Like to see something change
Around here, around there

AMERICAN GUITARS
They were failing dutifully
If you’re going to fail at all
Failing came more easily
Than it did to us all
And I wanted to be there
See them begin
It was easy to see they were
The best band to be in
I gave up drugging
When you spiked my drink
Stopped freeloading
When I could not get in
I gave up singing
When I was told
I could not dance
Knew my place in the world
When I heard them start

Woke up on Sunday morning
With a hole
the size of my pool
Couldn’t believe
I´d grown so ugly
Couldn’t believe
I´d been so cruel
I should’ve set back
Thought about their past
East coast to west coast
How they’d struggled
for their art

Some people
were born to write
Some people
were born to dance
Thought I knew my place in the world
Thought I knew my art
Glad to be there, see them begin
It was easy to see
They were the best band to be
American Guitars...
JUNK SHOP CLOTHES
Junk shop clothes
Will get you nowhere
They’re out of season
It’s betrayal with no treason
Junk shop clothes
Will get you...
There is no reason why
Your mother was a seamstress

Claim Soutine never spent
A thrift shop dime
In this life
Lenny Bruce never walked
In a dead man’s shoes
Even for one night

Junk shop clothes
Will get you nowhere
No summer pavilion
No shooting season
Junk shop clothes 
Will get you...
For the rest of your life
And the sun never shone
On your frame pale and wan

DON´T TRUST THE STARS
Who cares about 
your mystic lies
Is it a claim to some reality
I found myself barefoot
on stones
I don´t think 
‘It was meant to be’
I don´t think 
‘It just had to be’

So how can it be pre-arranged
When there’s no order anyway
I found myself barefoot
on stone
I don´t think it was destiny
It wasn´t in the stars that day

Good fortune smile
On my ascendant star
Take head, small talk
Don´t trust the stars

I know it´s insufferable
Visionary can be so vain
To think that somewhere
There´s a path for you
I know it´s make
it seem mundane
It makes it all seem
so mundane

Good fortune smile
On my ascendant star
Take head, small talk
Don´t trust the stars

STARSTRUCK
First child
and a showbiz son
always hide
where you come from
Mother got out rehab
And I was born
I was starstruck
When I was young
It´s never to soon
To tread the boards
I was in Vaudeville
At age give
My career took
Its first nosedive
Ivé been starstruck
All my life

Starstruck,
starstruck over you
Starstruck,
I´m struck dumb by you
Starstruck,
I struck out my luck
I was always starstruck

Can´t get an agent
For a child star
My act effete and failing
So I moved
To the old backlot
Where I exercise daily

Starstruck,
starstruck over you
Starstruck,
I´m struck dumb by you
Starstruck,
I struck out my luck
I was always starstruck

Now you´re between
A peak time show
I hear you´re now married
She was born to be seen
Not to be carried

Starstruck,
starstruck over you
Starstruck,
I´m struck dumb by you
Starstruck,
I struck out my luck
I was always starstruck

HOW COULD I BE WRONG
In my role
As a groundbreaker
As a pallbearer
In my past life
As a benefactor
My lost years
As an actor
The stars are brighter
Are lighter
Then they have been
for years
Those stars are tighter
At one time
I´ve never seen so many
How could I be wrong?
In my role
As a peacemaker
As a lifesaver
In your room
As a plan hatcher
A soul snatcher

HOUSEBREAKER
When I first met you
You were not house trained
A backwood trier
The world´s your oyster
Your time is mine
What´s yours is mine all mine
There´s no honour
Among thieves
So we worked together
A varied rich
and famous crime
You had your motives
I had mine
For a soul to find
Little piece rub off on mine

Trinkets, memorabila
Diamonds, for the taking
One mans treasure
never meant a thing
When I was housebreaking

Took a buckshot landing
From my most famous client
Must have lost it in the fall
Came away emty handed

When I first met you
I was not housetrained

VALET PARKING
Never saw
your drivers eyes
Or me on parking street
We were planning
your demise
Your chauffeur´s tired
But your still on heat
Downtoen,
you´re burning down
I´m sick of parking cars...
There are only-
two people here
Who are worthy 
Of your pool
and your place
So stand down now
Stand down
You´re standing down...

Never thought 
I´d see the day
When your pale face
turned grey
Got no guts, got no fame
Your epitaph
Sorely missed
Your unfaithful slave

IDIOT BROTHER
They were hanging on
For grim life
They were clutching
at straws
They were sure
That the ship was at port
They were keen philosophers
They were keen on hurt
They were like 
A pair of dumb dogs
Rolling in the dirt

(That´s ) you and 
Your idiot brother
Waiting in the wing
Which one holds up the other
Which one pulls the string

One bite of the apple
One chop at the tree
In your word
as good as your bond
Your stammer, your honesty
You could have it for free
Because nothing works
For no-one
And that won´t work
for me
Nothing works
For no-one at all
No-one works for free

We were
getting on famously
I was doing my bit
They got no claim on me
So send me a writ
I was walking
Around your house
In the middle of the night
Home medicine erotica
Is your prescription right?

I want to kill your sister
Witch some business advice
Never question your loyalty
On the telephone line
And what about
our fat friend
With the golden ear
Upped and left
Turned down
your best shot
Now you´re in arrears

EARLY YEARS
Early years
were a shroud man
Only a grey cloud
Shot in the dark
Hanging out
with your dad
His plans for revenge
In some hick-town
caravan park
Never keep
a good one down
Early years
were a dreadnought
Waiting to tread board
And my work
down the pan
Hanging round
By the back door
One foot in
the stage door
Some disaffected
fly-by man

Got wired by a cable
Got wild on a table
Scared the shit out of me
All for the free state
The snow and
the greasepaint
I left the singing family

HOME AGAIN
Home again
Housesitting again
Rifle through
Your possessions
and stuff
Things that you
Are ashamed of
Home again,
housesitting again
Looking through photos
At the back of your drawer
The way you looked
When you were small

You´re safe,
there´s no prowler
No creeper in your lane
It´s better than drugs,
it´s cool
To be in your home again

Home again,
housesitting again
It´s just a little bit far
From the main crowd
reading your poems
When you´re not around
Home again
Hospital letter,
a clinic hold
A test that you took
Awaiting results

BRAINCHILD
Some of the things a cowboy do
To make you howl out at the moon
and blush...
I think you´d better look around
There´s a genius in every town
Keep your ear down to the grown
No mothers son will ever forget it

Brainchild - you stole away my life 
for a while
Stole away my life
Stole away my time
Stole away...
You´re a thief with style

Your unfaithful sertvants calling you
In and out of your blind spot out of view
I think you´de better turn a leaf
The poet is the only thief
What Patti says Patti does
No mothers son will let you forget it
Brainchild

Style - meticulous and gaunt
Style - articulate!
Style - preoccupation

Great  lost albums no outtakes
You´re getting older and past your peak
I think you better look around
There´s a genius in your home town
No mothers son will ever forget you
brainchild
You´re a thief with style

I´M A RICH MANS TOY
I´m a rich mans toy
Sick of the way you´ve been putting me
down Sick of all your stupid games
I´m a rich mans toy
You´re a son of a gun and I´m easily led
Coming up sometimes for air

I´m a rich mans toy
Sick of the way you´ve been putting me
down Sick of all your stupid games
A toy - when you die they´ll burn your
bones But they´ll never destroy your
reamins 
You must be the king of the world

I´m a rich mans toy
The duchess envoy said when I was a
kind
You´d smack me around on a whim
I´m a rich mans toy
Your boyfriend moved all my things in
the hall
- Didn´t know you were sleeping with
him

I´m a rich mans toy
With powder and make-up
Dýou think that I scrub well?
Watching you wake up

Who´s right   who´s not
Who´s gonna get it now that I´m a
rich mans toy
What´s the matter with me?
What´s the matter with you?
What´s the matter with me?
Read us the riot act
Or read off your cues

Powder and make-up
Watching you wake up
Do you think I scrub well
Who´s right   who´s not?
Who owes who what
Who´s gonna get it now...

I´m a rich mans toy

NEW FRENCH GIRLFIREND
Want a girl to hold my hand
When the plane lands
When the cracks appear in the plan
And the rocks turn into sand
Better call my new French girlfiend

Make a call international
All around the world
Money fame liberate and free
Alain, Rene, Vanessa and me
Ahh...

Better call my new French Girlfriend

That´s 
The price
Of success
Want a girl to hold my hand
When the plane lands

THE UPPER CLASSES
Some of the clothes you stole
from your lovers home
Make you glow in the dark -
make you light up
The room on your own
Formative years were a drag
but we passed the time somehow
I´m in a cahoots with the 
upper classes now

Put it all in a trust fund
She can´t touch ´till she´s twenty one
Amazing the cruel hand of fate
A tax loss against the state
You had to move three times this year
I´d rather be any where but there
The champagne highs and the giddy
lights - Are paradise

House guest is here
can´t believe that the vanishing point appeared
Can hardly believe
- people live in houses behind trees
Formative years were a drag
but we passed the time somehow
I´m in a cahoots with the upper classes now

That cunt´s really got it sussed
Selling wine, selling drugs
You can´t get so far whit a pershing wit
But the money´s in trust - isn´t it?
What treasures can you hold and name
You don´t have the right face
The champagne highs and the giddy lights 
- Are paradise

some of your friends,from your other life
Just don´t belong
They´re crude and they´re plain
It´s not their fault 
it´s the world they´re from
(And) you can´t come here no more
Unless you use the tradesmans door

There´s nothing wrong with inherited wealth 
If you melt the silver  - yourself
Put it all in a trust fund
She can´t touch ´till she´s twenty one
The champagne highs and the giddy lights 
- Are paradise

Some of the clothes you stole
from your lovers home
Are better than the clothes
we stole from the
Shops in our own
I´m in a cahoots with the 
upper classes now

CHINESE BAKERY
She´s going downtown
but she comes from uptown
Where the brokers and the dealers socialise
She´s going downtown
Cos she´s a poet
And the Chinese bakery´s open all night

Toulouse Lautrec called up today
Said it´s Rock n´Roll anyway
Excuse me while I´m tearing off your head
Epiphany just went to ground
The three men just can´t be found
The underground just shook its weary head

She said she´s gonna show me around
The Chinese bakery thats open 
Twenty hours

She´s going downtown...

Got a roller coaster in my head
You press the button - I´ll eject
Your present is just somebodys past
Don´t blink, pinch me twice
Just seen Bob Dylan on a motorbike
I don´t think this relationship will last

She said she´s gonna show me around
The Chinese bakery thats open
Twenty hours
She´s going downtown...
And the Chinese bakery´s open all night

A SISTER LIKE YOU
Two sisters sighed
Sais we might as well be lovers
We´re so close
Just like blood brothers

And the horse guard died
I lost all power
She said to me
Dis you come down in the shower

Their mother cried
Her religion was faultless
Thought obeyed
She remained unaware of this
And the horse guard...

What am I to do
For a sister like you

Two sisters cried
For their missing brother
Who was found cold but alive
No longer their lover

UNDERGROUND MOVIES
We first met it was raining
In a house with bay windows
And all the fitting and fixtures
And a catalogue of injury

She´s got a credo in underground movies
Her father is a lawyer
Who paid for the fitting and fixtures
And a house with bay windows

And I´m calling from a Baltimore Hotel
Don´t let it ring again
Your movies are your own
You´re on a limb again
calling from a Baltimore hotel
Don´t let it ring again
Your movies are your own
Don´t let him in again

Four weeks later in April
I took her to the doctors
Said "I´ve no prescription"
For compromised solution

And I´m calling from a Baltimore Hotel
Don´t let it ring again
Your movies are your own
You´re on a limb again
calling from a Baltimore hotel
Don´t let it ring again
Your movies are your own
Don´t let him in again

Ten years
Caught in a trap by my own cunning
Thought I was smart
Thought I was dying
For years
I lived in a flat without water running
Thought it was smart
Thought it was funny

I'm writing in memoirs
The underground press remain faithful
Ghost writing her memoirs
Maybe we´ll get it on cable

LIFE CLASSES / LIFE MODEL
Bruises from your head to your toe
There are marks all over you
There´s no place for you to hide
Since they painted you black and blue
Blue´s the colour I made your eyes
Charcoat the hair
If I fall down
Don´t be surprised
This surveillance was unprepared

I´m watching over
You every move
Life classes life model
Life lesson due

Show me where to disrobe dear
Where I´m out of view
Say something good or shut your mouth
This surveillance is overdue

I´m watching over
You every move
Life classes life model
Life lesson due

And there´s no way to hold your head
So hold your head that low
And there´s no way to hold your head
So those things just don´t show

Now I´m a Cowboy
Carrying a gun
Life classes / Life model
Life lesson begun

MODERN HISTORY
Well the desk porter laughed
News of our legend and our exploits
Travelled car
From bell-hop to hired car
All this and more
Modern History
On the third floor

So is this where he died
Spend your life cutting words up
With a knife
I light a candle for each night
You wate away your life
Modern history
On the third floor

Well they´re never gonna forget us
We´re the most famous
People that they know
Went to a party
I didn´t say a word
You don´t know how lucky you were
You don´t know how lucky you are

So we set fire to your room
And we bandaged up your
hands and arms - now
Where´s your beauty gone

Modern history
On the third floor

DAUGHTER OF A CHILD
You´ve had your fill of laughing gas
And pacing ´round the waiting room
Heard you moved into an empty house
When they broke into the girls bedroom

The daughter of a child
Said she´s got the whole thing down
Best inform the missing persons act
You know your daughter cant be found

Do you want something to eat?
Who´d look good in Captoe´s hat
Are you trying to poison me
Who siad that I could ever act

Daughter of a child...

GOVERNMENT BOOKSTORE
Not the hospital gown you´re wearing
Or the bad luck that dogs us-
What´s done is done
They burned the old place down

Chased me allround the reference section
Tried to catch the attendants eye
Ten years on the night shift
Well I don´t work tonight

All my books are on loan
Since the Government Book store closed

Well we met in the hotel lobby
The executor read aloud the will
No wake, no eulogy
From this pathetic crowd

It´s no Bloomsbury afternoon
Just a couple of soaks and the villagefool

Well they closedown the whole
mainbuilding. Boared up and the main
door staying shut
Used to steal things
From this now emty shop


EVERYTHING YOU SAY WILL DESTROY YOU
Well they sent back all the bodies
Who were looking charred and hopeless
They didn´t seem that callous
´Til they stopped you in your flow
She´s surrounded by Her Wardens
Who are looking tired and anxious
About the man from Reuters
Who´s nullifying your glow

Everything you say 
Will destroy you anyway

Well you may think you´re Buddha
Sitting on a Mount of ashes
You were mentioned in the postscript
Of dispatches anyway
And the major´s cool but nervous
As he walks around the airport
Your master´s dumb, His card is marked
Your upstar charge is cool and smart

Everything you say 
Will destroy you anyway

Your unwanted suitor
Leaves his things around your home
He´s marking out his territory 
On the message on your answer phone
Well you may think you´re Buddha
Sitting on a Mount of ashes
You were mentioned in dispatches

In the postscript anyway

LIGHT AIRCRAFT ON FIRE
When you cut your lover´s slack
you´ll get a fucking monster back
information indiscreet-
it´s just an acrobatic trick
disintergrates at 2000 feet
vanishes into  mercury
light aircraft on fire

tombestone queen victoria
was an ex wing-walker
everybody ignored her
everybody implored her to-
vainsh in to the radio
disappear in the waveband slow
light aircraft on fire

disintergrate at 2000 feet
disappear into mercury
there´s a dark premonition an accident will happen
theres a pre-science preacher in the cabin
everybody eat your dust
everybody love your dust
lifgt aircraft on fire

THE CHILD  BRIDES
When I first saw the child brides 
two bridegroom boys at their side
genevieve in union with -holy communion
Marianne the younger wife

and the child brides
went down to the water
neptune calls out to his daughters
throw yourself at the tide
I´ll see you on the other side

in a loveless marriage - when I was fourteen
all braised knees and black eyes
then you come round here
with your fancy talk and big ideas
what have you done with our wives

chorus

bride of Christ, bride of Jesus
bride of the fish when you´re fathoms down
and the uncles and the brother
with their Sunday suits on
search the village and towns
but the child brides etc.

LAND LOVERS
In a absement flat lying undercover
in a head full of height were a couple of lovers
I´ll buy you san-energy I´ll buy you a beer
hotfoot it downtown
if you move I´ll shoot

land lovers-
terrified of the land
they are loved by the land
lay unlimited/they are are limited by the land
they are shunned by the land

I believe that some of the brothers
have been mixing it with land lovers

well I heard your old man was a radio ham 
picking up signals from unoccupied lands
government intelligence isn´t what it was
put a bullet in his brain
when he picked up a doodle bug

medicine men, went undercover, 
espionage viva, land lovers

parasite to the state
uber alles, uber hate
bad moon, bad moon, leave the body in state

and they cut off your arms
and they cut off your legs
and they made you a target
for american bombers

NEW BRAT IN TOWN
new brat in town
new brat in town
who´s been found
counting aloud- when there´s a new brat
in town

your precious things
your precious dear
and a chat show host
went and cut the throat
of an off-shore engineer

hey hey! yeah yeah!
assumed a crucifix
hey hey! yeah yeah!
you are the promper one

I´ll give you half an hour, make a phone call
pack a suitcase, break your fingers
shut the door and don´t be late
I give you half an hour
new brat in town - got the bully boys
out and twenty pound of hate

she´s an acrobatic kid
high-flyer as a child
been eaten alive - time after time
you´re doing fine

EVERYTHING YOU SAY WILL DESTROY YOU (album ver.)
well they sent back all the bodies
who were looking really hopeless
well it didn't seem that callous
till they stopped you in your flow
she's surrounded by her wardens
and they're looking really nervous
all about the man from reuters
here to nullify your glow

everything you say will destroy you - anyway
everything you say will come haunt you
round each corner
everything you say will destroy you

well you may think that you're buddha
lying on a mound of ashes
you were mentioned in the postscript of
dispatches anyway
and the majors really nervous
when he's walking round the airport
you know your master's card is marked
your upstart charge is cool and smart

your unwanted suitor
leaves his things around your home
he's marking out his territory
he's pissing on your ansaphone
well you may think that you're buddha
lying on a mound of ashes
you were mentioned in dispatches
in the postscript anyway

UNSOLVED CHILD MURDER
People 'round here
don't like to talk about it
Presumed dead
Unsolved Child Murder

Since they dragged the lake
you know they seemed au-fait
cordoned off some wood
and gave the photo to a psychic
Presumed Dead
Unsolved Child Murder

If I die before my parents die
If I die before my parents die

more hate mail through the door
didn't know that sundays
could be useful after all
people can be cruel and spineless

hung around your house
waiting for your mother
rachel says she's married to a doctor
presumed dead
unsolved child murder

If I die before my parents die
If I die before my parents die

better move on - with the good stuff
better move on - right away
sod this town and people's pity
let's get on with the nitty gritty
presumed dead - unsolved child murder

I believe in ESP
when you're dealing with a master thief
headlines scream
"he's been missing 2 weeks"

Rachel said when we find
we can cure him
we can make him better
raise him from the dead
unsolved child murder
raise him from the dead
unsolved child murder

MARRIED TO A LAZY LOVER
sack the maid - put her in chains until
she say's that it's painless and I
couldn't care less

twenty years
married to a lazy lover
twenty years
mixing alcohol and downers
sack the maid
for dealing in state propoganda
sack the state

what would your common lover do
beat the daylights out of you?
it's a national threat
married to a lazy lover
against the west
married to a lazy lover
i could teach him how to drink
but he just threw up in the sink

the man from the ministy
didn't have to say
that your lover's on the shelf
would he bite the bit
or split my lip?
anyway this marraige is annulled

BUDDHA
happy birthday buddha
happy hunting, happy hiding, happy new year
i hope you get yourself together
i hope your absence is made clear

i first learned, their was a value
in a little subterfuge
from some old peeping tom
or another woman's refuge
came in contact with a svengali
he was housebound and unwell
choked on a whale bone in a cantonese restaurant

his nervous system
had broken down

9 singing buddhas

TOMBSTONE
taking out the garbage at the columbia hotel

nobody got a ticket out of cripple town

better call suspension - bakelite and dial
we'll take the fucking building out -
baader meinhof style

every day, every hour, every minute
every dawn to sundown
everybody's gonna get it
- in tombstone
every day, every hour,
we're related
for the rest of the year
everybody's gonna get it
tombstone is here

like to thank my mother for inventing
rock and roll
i'd be lost without it, i would not be whole
honeymoon is over - waiting fr the cops
sitting shit faced in dan's car
thinking 'bout who we're not

tombstone, tombstone got a gun
we've got all the women and children
all tied up for fun

got to see a doctor, i need to turn my
bones to milk
nobody ever found the gold upon the hill
and i wanted glamour not tragic rock n roll
and i want a lover, who'll nail me to the wall
everybody etc.

FEAR OF FLYING
you may be wary of fallen stars
they're always poking around in the dark
the ariel view of a dying man
screaming out can you help me invisible man
you must be wary of ghosts in the dark
they know all your history they know all your past
all of the angels are doing their bit
clearing the house of your animal shit

fear of flying is eating you whole
i have no fear of dying at all
it's absurd that a silver bird
should have a fear of flying at all

you may be wary of who you short change
keeping the short-con well within range
the ariel view of an idiot bird
screaming out can you help me but nobody heard

you may be wary of ghosts of the past
sexless and incorrigible in the dark
they're making an ariel map of abuse
all of the a-roads leading to home

DEAD SEA NAVIGATORS
their legend lay in tatters
from perth to john o'groats
the dead sea navigators
should've been buried at birth
and of course i loved them dearly
and i miss them now they're gone
the dea sea navigators
wished they'd had a son

even in their heyday
no-one like them anyway
committed boozers 3 a.m. shivers
this one goes out to those not with us

john the barman and mickey green
this one goes out to all the drinkers
at the red lion
and our friends, though they are few
angel, johnny, pain, keith charity
this one's for you
and what's left of your nerve will get you through

from brighton down to eastbourne
sea sick sailors getting tough
but the dead sea navigators
were made of stouter stuff

golden years, golden years
no-one like them
'cept for us

season's ending , all night porters
thy honour defending with last orders

all the sunbathers
staring at the sun
this one goes out to the
invisible children - as yet unborn
and our friends
though they are few
overcoat boys with more brains than brawn
this one's for you
and all that sail in the
deas sea navigators
this one's for you

AFTER MURDER PARK
esme could you shut the door
and put the oil lamp on the floor
i feel it coming on again
just like it did on saturday
voices after murder park
in the damp in the dark
maybe we should call the law
maybe we should call the child's parents

i'll love you until the end

hi, hello, what have you seen?
god, it's good to hear your voice again
did you miss your brother
darling i will always love you
lying, in a shallow grave
there's a church nearby and a railway
on a bed of mud and wire
esme find out where the child is buried

marry the first born
bury the stillborn
i love you and i always will

we are lying here
waiting to be buried
we are lying here and you're losing
contact with the dead

please don't ask about the future
i am not a fortune teller
i know you're just being civil
but don't make this trivial
uncles i have never seen
only in my own dead dream
on a bed of mud and wire
esme find out where the child is buried

i'll love you until the end