Underneath the chaste tree we settled Far from the city’s walls The voice in your ear, was keeping you near me But soft, love, the sly wind calls… While a wrestler, like good Iago, wonders Writing, writing like a man possessed We chased each other in the oat A wolf pup and a billy goat Your love of truth, my tender youth Two pennies for the riverboat Well, gods bless St. James the Supplanter Bless him with a paper mask The walk in the wheat, the soles of our feet The violence of the village, so soft and discreet All those questions you had to ask… No I’m hanging from the hospital and howling From Liverpool to New Orleans “My baby’s dead today! “My baby’s dead today! “My baby’s dead, my baby’s dead! “My baby’s dead today!” You stabbed at the silence of speeches You turned my wolf-head ‘round Sharp as a saber, sweet as a fig With the smile of a child and the nose of a pig Now you’re six feet underground Yes, Two and Three went down to the graveyard But only Four came back It must have been the poison (son) It must have been the medicine The dialogue, the train we’re on They’ve gone and took my only one! Well, of the rails I was raised up And off them I was happy to stay But the inkwell twisted, we never resisted I should have known that you never existed How that madman scribbles and strays But when I die they can bury me barefoot! You can dig my grave with a pottage spoon! Because I’ll be riding on the chariot You know two horses carry it Across the pit, I’ll paint it red A-hunting in my lover’s fit!
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"Phaedrus" appears on "Be Merry" in 2012.
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