Fellow Adventurer:
Let's be friends and lovers too.
Let's be confidants and whisper miracles.
Let's be historians and sing the praises of the heroes,
And our own.
Let's be Costa Rica and all the other places you've got me dreaming about
On stomachaching mornings, trying to get the cat to calm down.
Let's be waves and particles too;
Dazzle them, make them wonder,
Just for the fun of it.
Cheap Matches
I keep a book of matches on my nightstand, yellow,
Proclaiming "Always, Save" and I don't really know why;
They never worked.
I was never the kind of kid to play with fire,
So maybe I'm out of practice but they always splinter between my fingers
Or else burst into life a half-second,
Tauntingly bright the way stars seem when you're out of the city,
With that cruel impermanent feeling that you've finally got the whole world in your control.
But then a wind-gust and darkness remind you of your place --
To be unseeing and unknowing,
To breathe catastrophic a birdsong plea for dreams into a life of cold actuality.
South of Lindsey, Away from the Fray
Gonnas do battle with oughtas aerial, angelic-prostrate, humble to the scene --
The scene! Oh the scene! The glorious fumble-bumble strung-out-hysterical --
While coulda lies stoned on my livingroom rug dreaming of a dubious Portland.
And the fickle wouldas take their coffee black in the evenings, sober but not too sober, high but not high enough.
Shouldas forgetful (or maybe it would be better to say
Devoted to forgetting; they make a sport of it)
Watch things play out on patios over pretty good beer, leery and hardfooted, perversions of wisdom,
Perverted to the bone,
Halfdreaming a ta-tap tapping, a wily and deranged beat, its hair a mess,
Its red eyes itching away a hangover, a snare-rim perfection they could never produce.
Lesser-known ogres riddle the breeze to pass while knights in pastel bottondowns stab wildly at redbrick crenellations.
The battlefield is a chaos pure and holy in its inanity.
Valkyries chatter over their prey, glorifying the valiant and leaving the unworthy to fight another day.
And a notsoclear-empty forty sits incongruous on my desk,
Only adds to the confusion, ought to be broken I think. I think
This is something akin to peace, not the thing itself but ironically
Not so dissimilar. Can we call it peace?
Can we bring ourselves to name a peace chaos and a chaos peace?
But this is the place of my contentment;
It need not be named I suppose. I suppose
This is a kind of peace, one of many,
A truncation of panics cooled by a joy real
And gorgeous.
A Peace Treaty with Mosquitos
I was sitting on the back patio reading Lasky and not really getting it
But I thought it was beautiful and I think that's enough
For me anyway,
And I noticed a mosquito on my knuckle hungry
And blew it gentle away, remembering dully
That there would be mosquitoes again as if I had forgotten;
They would trickle-sneak back into the world
Their ever-young bodies quivering, discovering their wings
And a world newly warm and swarm
To deny us perfection,
And I knew I could never manage to blow them all away
And that some bites must be accepted, would itch a while
And be forgotten,
The blood crystallized in amber,
Gone, ungone, a realized nothing.
The End of Alogia
Strange like melting snow, sad sure,
And forgetful,
But holy and cheerful, strange sure,
But kind.
I'm feasting on the meat of the last good freeze
And dreaming of a love that was couched
Somewhere in my peripheries and cooly slipped
At long last in front of my starved eyes.
I've longed for a love incontestable,
A certainty indescribable which would bear down
On the tower of habit I've built to trap myself.
Strange sure, lacking words
Yet being happy with the fact.
Oh bristling calm and blooming blight,
Oh dying corpse of the brilliant bright
Bastion aching in its too-young-white
Decay which kept me and fed me,
Read me stories of yesterdays not yet come
And hid my soul from the blaring light,
Made me a forgetful man, a child too old,
Oh walls, crumble,
Oh mortar, chip away to nothing,
Be gone, be gone and leave nothing
But if you must leave something,
Leave the only thing worthy of words --
Leave hope,
For in hope there is an subversion
Too gorgeous for its name
Branding on every broken brick a song;
Let's not call it hope.
Let's play like alchemists and give the thing another name,
A magic word to rid the world of cold:
Let's call it "spring" but mean love
And joy and decency and kindness.
Let's know the thing unnamed and name the thing unknown
And smile at our little trick, this spell which does nothing and everything
All at once.
A Weekend with Demeter
Cold rain spits ice-knives,
Grass-shards rise to drink fresh life;
You and I are one -- tonight.
Painful awareness
Of foggy breath circling
Smoke filled breaking cold.
Empty wine bottle,
The casualty of the night,
The too-brilliant bright
Light of caustic peace --
Whispered stories in the dark
Tell of spastic myths:
Pecan trees are hard
To tear down in winter's snow;
Can we wait til spring?
"The sowing, baby."
Nothing is permanent, true.
Let's build a structure --
Something the cynics
Can cling in the dull dark,
A decent story
Maybe, even. I'll
Call it irony;
The bomb-burst consciousness
Shocking tulkus free.
I'll call it a fork;
I ought to be in Golden
Or else Estes Park,
Buying a gram.
I'll call it decent;
Patterns are built to tear down.
Anyway
Let's be here, now.
Let's worry about the sowing some other day,
Fumble through the details
Derailing the simplicity.
Dreams don't end, darling,
If one never endeavors
To wake; let's be here,
Let's be now, sockless
Toes curl in bright ecstasy
And all is color
And light, here, tonight.
Scenes
I accept my transience....begrudgingly, but yes!
I will accept the fact of death if only
Because death implies life and life implies
Everything, but no! I'm no fallen god.
I carry no memory of heaven -- I live in heaven...
And hell, all at once and it really is a wonderful, horrible show
And I wouldn't miss a single act:
"What have you seen?"
I've seen liquor store Aristotles
Asleep as they walked, awake in dreams.
I've seen broken-boned toy soldiers
Who peered a little far over the shelf edge
And discovered earth and discovered air
And discovered pain all in a blur.
I've seen philosophy kids freaking out in hallways,
Their heads rich with words and systems, you could almost catch
Their lips smacking and drool pooling on their tongues;
And oh the dew on sleepless mornings rising with a not-sun:
That is to say one no one up that early would count
On a gray day still sticking to winter
Even though it is plainly March.
I don't rise much with them at least not when I can help it.
I've seen machine gun marionettes dance on screens
Kicking up dust, trying to stay relevant,
And I could never help but think
That it's all so BORING to watch and I prefer
The stateside puppet-show, thank you very much.
At least I know the players, and the hands up their asses. And mine.
I've seen tick-tocking grey men and women
Just waiting. They're the only ones I'll ever pity.
I've seen Cassandran dancers weeping for
Minds old and new, not-yet-dying minds,
Because they were not blind
To the poisons swimming in the ventricles
Or the gasping need for tomorrow growing louder
With each subsequent yesterday and they begged
The ravaged souls to only be quiet, calm, for they were doomed
And need not rage against the universe,
And I watched the flashing lights and colors in ecstasy.
And I heard the pleasured screams and pained cries and it sounded
Like a symphony, it ought to have been a symphony, it was.
I've seen nothing beget nothing and everything beget everything
And nothing beget everything and everything beget nothing
Until my head was spinning and the only things that were
Real were poetry, whiskey
Love or lust or
Whatever I happened upon.
I've seen some of the most disciplined cursed artists do a swan-dive to temperance
In some last ditch effort to catch a toe-tap
And I wanted to hurl the great hulking mass of my heart at them
And beat them with their own pens and brushes and chisels and say
"HOW'S THAT FOR A RHYTHM?"
I've seen the plains bow down to mountains,
Insecure, the both of them, the both of them
Impermanent, and I think that's why I always feel at home --
But I never feel at home.
I shift with the wind. I've got wind in my bones,
My crooked bones, aching for a change.
And insonorous whispers come at long last to speak their minute,
Pastiche saintly they long not to be heard
But seen, to be waveformal on the oscilloscopic breeze;
They know they can be real, we can
Be real, static sounded on the mechanistic plane
But I do not pray for that.
Don't dread bereavement from certain chaos,
Uniform-clad clades of nothings floating in the abyss,
Easy, sure, but soulless.
Dread the loss of beauty. Certainty means nothing
If not for chasmatic discord.
Discord is us, we are
Beauty. Everything. Un-nothings or perhaps
Once-nothings that are breaking the habit.
If you are to be a fire,
Don't burn for the destruction but for the prideful light;
If you are to be a wave,
Don't rise for the crashing but for the glorious swell;
If you are to be a storm,
Don't burst for the flowers but for the enveloping dark;
If you are to be a human,
Breathe for yourself and love and beauty and never think of death.
East Norman, OK
She said, “The water is still,
There isn’t any flow, no movement,
Not even the tiniest ripple,”
And I didn’t know how to reply –
I never know how to reply –
But it was such a pretty thing to say
And so I smiled anyway.
She was in a strange mood,
All fidgeting movements and wild eyes;
Her eyes looked off in the fluorescent light,
A little hollow and far too blue
And my heart broke for her
And my heart broke for me.
The conversation fell apart fast,
And she went off to ride her bike home
Saying something about how she needs to clean
And she only sweeps when she’s sad.
She drinks and cries
And sweeps her kitchen floor
And drinks
And cries.
Autena comes after eight-thirty
And tells me of Paris in July,
Its grace and its cool-dry beauty,
Not like here with the insufferable heat
And the awkward, rambling streets
Sprawling out in random beelines from nowhere in particular
To nowhere at all.
And I imagine myself on top
Of the Arc de Triomphe de l’Etoile,
Gazing out across the mad logical Champs-Elysées,
Screaming, wildly wailing at La Défense
Of my imagination, and I am afraid
That I will never be able to get out
And soon this will be everything, screaming
At imaginary cities in imaginary places that sit
Somewhere just to the left of my throbbing amygdalae
In the tangled mess of nervous knots,
My tangled cerebrum from which these tangled words spew.
I scream and I scream and my screams
Bounce and buffet around in the still air
Above the silent avenue, and die away into nothing.
And Autena leaves around nine,
When the clouds are ashen grey-black,
But still smoldering with passionate light
Around their edges of the stubborn bright
Burn of the selfish summer sun, clinging
Onto the end of day: It is that awkward time
Of late evening when all is certainly dying
But all is still bristling and frantic,
Like a child not yet wanting to go to bed.
Suddenly, I am bubbling and bursting
And so I light up another Sherman MCD –
Luxury, luxury!
I can’t afford such a headswim –
But it is not enough to stifle this electricity –
I need a greater object for my energy –
So I up and wander to East Main:
The low little buildings in a jumbled pile of brick and stone
Tell a century-old confused story of booms and busts,
Booms and busts, from the broken-down sidewalks on the west end
To the little birds singing in trees to homeless people on Legacy Trail
By the train station, to the self-conscious hip shops and restaurants
And bars that run the static length of the east end,
To the almost-but-not-quite abandoned garages on Porter,
Which will someday be gone and replaced by apartments,
Feigning culture, with their coffee shops and sushi shops
In their bottoms and their hipsters in their tops.
And I feel lost for a few clumsy minutes
On the corner of Crawford and Main
And Ali Harter’s whiskey-rough voice is rising up
From the patio in the alley behind Tres Cantina
To battle a bad band tumbling out of the cracks
Of The Opolis, and my cigarette burns the tip of my finger,
So I drop it and it scatters into a million glowing points
And I feel I am god for a minute,
Scattering life-light across the hot concrete world
Only to watch it burn itself out.
I smile.
I laugh wild in wonder, wild,
And then catch myself,
Because this is only Crawford and Main
And I am still nobody.
This is neither the time nor place.
So I set myself west,
To the grey ash-bitter west,
And walk myself,
The sidewalk descending from pristine glitter-grey
Into the inevitable rubble;
The dense ancient brick friend-faced facades
Grow sparser and fall away
And the city opens wide its teeth –
Everything becomes distant, dark, confused –
And swallows,
And I am consumed, acid-drenched, burning
And desperate. I am tiny, a speck of dust
Lost in an infinite plain
Of concrete, lost, ever-lost, and never heard
And never seen by anyone, a speck of dust
A nullity among nullities,
Swimming through the fiery stomach
Of this vacuous parking lot world.
I loiter, if not wholly lost, half-lost
Around the high school, bloated and sprawling and empty
In the weary gasping summer night blackness,
That peculiar American machine, ever churning,
Replicating itself like a virus three-hundred-million times over
Into the soul-cells of unwanting kids, and then exploding
Them out into the hot, perpetual June afternoon,
Naked and frantic, with less than when they started,
Besides their infant livers and lungs already starting to rot
And the promise that their hungry heads and hearts
Will someday soon boil away into nothing.
No! No I will not be trapped again
In that ignorant web of disappointment and anger!
I got drunk off that shit for twenty years;
I was a junkie, prideful of my addiction,
Stubborn and self-righteous, a child,
But a child no more,
Because I have seen the crepe myrtles
Pushing up from under the concrete,
More powerful than the man-made mess
Of worry that sticks to us so pervasively,
That clings to our bones, perverting our morning reflections
Into floating black livers and brains,
That makes us see each other in constant twilight,
Broken down into our constituent shapes
And reflected light.
No! I will object no more to my humanity;
I will reject no more the quiet constant joy
Of knowing that I am a man and I am alive,
And I will revel in sweat and bake
Beneath the Oklahoma sun, and earn myself some blisters
And bleed, breaking up the concrete, and try to tell the soccer moms,
When they pitch their screaming fits, what I have seen
Beneath all of this, and hope that they listen.
But when they don’t (and I know that they won’t)
I will just continue my work, and sweat and bake and blister
And bleed, and hope someday soon they will
See the world as I have seen it, as flowers
Struggling against the concrete.
But perhaps I am Searle’s beer can
Popping up when all the switches are pulled just right
To exclaim excitedly, “I am thirsty!”
But never knowing exactly what that means.
I am thirsty.
I am thirsty,
Parched, famished, longing,
Starving for a grand x,
A variable in a function that refuses to be solved,
A thing that clamps down on my tongue-tip,
But which I can never name
And which is undeniably absent
But inexcusably present.
And so I spend my days
Building up my frustrated mess
And weakheartedly hammering away
At the perpetual concrete, while the philosophy kids
Worry themselves to death about the intentionality of machina,
And I am nothing more than a very thirsty beer can
Wading through signs and symbols trying to connect x
With anything meaningful,
A static cell in a cruel construct,
Waiting, always waiting to perform some function
I cannot fathom.
Relax. Just calm down.
You are no cell; you are a man,
And you are scared, and that’s alright.
Your heart speeds only to proclaim that you are alive.
But am I? My day is undone.
How I long to quit you –
To be burned by strange suns,
To breathe deep foreign grass –
But I am afraid:
I can imagine no hotter sun,
No softer grass on which to couch my soul.
You broke me and rebuilt me,
Piece by piece, a different man,
But how I long to quit you.
The steel of my spine gnags at me
On cold days, but on this summer night
I am titanic.
But I am still weighed down
By the broken streets,
By my unhistory – I do not know
My great-great-grandfather’s name
But I have his desk,
Built from strong lonely Thackerville timber,
Heavy with the petrified red mud
And with a century-old morning star
Which burned brighter then,
But is now faded, overburdened
By the anthropogenic light
Rising from some fucking casino,
Unable to proclaim its unasked-for but needed hope;
I bet he, like I, was a son of the dawn,
Fallen, ashamed, but never fully broken.
But I will be no twenty-first century Rimbaud,
Ever asleep on a hundred blank notebooks;
I will not burn what little beauty I build –
I refuse!
No, I will cast off my prairie shame
And shout naked from overpasses
To the low, infinite sprawl spread thin and disjointed
That no vultures will pick clean our iron limbs
That we will someday triumph!
…who are we?
In my exalted fervor, I carry myself
To Boyd Street, faintly glittering,
Bubbling and bursting with the impassioned apathy
Of Saturday night in a college town –
Classes have just resumed; the wolves are prowling
The bars lining the bright-dark street.
I find David, the old gardener,
With his bad knees and his bad back
And his sharp mind, smoking by the corner store.
He tells me of northern Washington,
Its colors and its quiet, and I am giddy,
And we are giddy together, dreaming of sweet elsewhere
In a gas station parking lot in between cigarette drags.
He wants to grow pot
And get just rich enough and breathe good air
And be happy.
And I find Jesus strung out on speed
And three-point beers
On the corner of Asp and Boyd
And he gives me American Spirits
And he sings me a song
And he tells me of how his brothers and sisters
Had beaten him down, nearly killed him,
And he spent three days in Norman Regional,
Comatose on morphine and despair,
But he made his way back to this world,
A half-man, proclaiming that we are gods,
That we are all gods,
And he follows me back to the corner store
Like a hungry dog beaten down,
Bruised and whimpering,
To buy cigarettes and beers
With money he doesn’t have,
Proclaiming all the while
That we are all gods,
Every one of us.
…who are we?
Are we gods?
We are skinks cowering in corners
From the possums’ sharp teeth,
But no injury can truly kill us.
We are tree-planters; I know it’s sad,
But we cannot stop to watch them grow –
There are tireless axmen always at our heels,
And so we must continue our work
Until they are finally overwhelmed, and turn,
Red-faced, sweating, panting, away,
And we will rest in the shade, and admire
What a forest we have built to shelter our eggshell souls
From the august-hot world.
And that day will come, I promise, but until then,
We must break our backs, we must blister our hands,
We must let the Oklahoma sun burn and crack our necks,
We must sing the glory of our malaise and moonlight
And we must love, always love, and be patient;
On the local nightly new, they like to call that
“The Oklahoma Standard,” and I must confess
A cringe for every time I hear the phrase,
But there does seem to be some peculiar overactive
Philosophy beat in to us from birth which contends
That we cannot rest until we can all rest.
And I can vouch for the existence of the Oklahoma Standard:
I’ve seen it shining through the bigoted black
Perpetuated by Mary Fallin, that vulture,
That horny and holier-than-thou whore,
And her prostitute crowd,
Who turned the crumbling Capitol Building
Into a grand and wretched whorehouse
Where they suck the throbbing red cocks
Of highway patrolmen and oilmen and lobbyists
Until they explode, cumming blood and money and fear
Into the wide, lusty mouths of the lawmakers
Who swallow down those sweet sacraments of the modern age.
Yes, I’ve seen it!
It’s sometimes dim,
Like a distant star under city lights,
But often bright white
And all-encompassing,
Clothed in work gloves and work shoes and denim,
Two-thousand strong, marching,
Getting burned beneath the June sun,
But never stopping, righting
Overturned headstones tossed by wind,
Picking up trash and tree branches,
Until, finally, the work is done
And we can rest together
In the shade of a wide tree
And talk and smile and laugh
Over a well-earned simple meal
And cool water, calming the day’s desperate thirst.
It is not some strange and unique gift
Of people around these parts, though.
It is an exaltation, a celebration
Of the often forgotten but immutable grandeur
Of basic human goodness and decency –
Nothing more and nothing less.
I am awoken, this time by the yellow lights
Of the university, softly glowing
Like the face of a very old friend,
Like the face of my mother holding me,
Six years old, after I came home from school
To a shoebox, a casket
For the soft thing that kept me safe at night
And I realized my mortality –
Daydreamer like me,
Lost and forgotten soul like me,
Clothed in red clay, longing
For switchgrass and romance, gunfights,
Long nights filled with poetry
And gas station beer.
There is some ugly beauty in this place,
This hot, wet incubator of everything good or evil,
Peopled by thoughts, by hovering minds, roving
In their sputtering, sweating, panting, crawling, gasping work,
Endless hours spent on the innervation of the viscera
Of this brainless body
In which we pump our dark, thick blood
Out in wild veins going nowhere until it all bursts,
And stains ten-thousand desks still dripping
Onto the floor the undried mess of another futile organ.
But we pump and we pump,
Spewing our constant chaotic nothing,
Leaving a tiny gorgeous stain,
And crying, joyful and pure,
When it finally finds oxygen
And for a second glows radiant red.
Automatically, I think of her:
Her breath, overburdened
With the tacit rambling whispering
Of seasons: I long for that breath
On my cheek, warm and wet, ancient,
Made holy by the australopithecine grunts,
By the sweet not-magic singing
Of striving, fighting, loving, living, ever-living
Humanity.
And when she constricts that eternal air
Through her steady shifting glottis
And lets it fly across the rolling plain of her tongue
And through the snowy peaks of her teeth,
She speaks
With the power of sacred everything.
Her voice is that of songbirds,
Of animal roars,
Of sweating hunters,
Of a spectral deified existence,
The eternal spirit of life.
She says, “Fuck you.”
And I swear it’s the most beautiful thing
I have ever heard – I deserve it, need it.
She is gone now. She was never here.
She was only ever a myth I made
From a face picked out arbitrarily
From the popcorn ceiling on a Sunday afternoon,
Too sad to get out of bed.
I like making myths.
I’m good at it.
I was born without myths,
And so I build them –
Ginsberg and Pound and Faulkner and Rimbaud and WHATEVER,
Anything better to cling to,
Anything to keep me complacent
And hoping –
And I stack them high:
Bottles of gin, filled to the brim
With cigarette butts, like milk bottles
In some carnival game, with the big bear
Of pseudointellectualism peering down
From the highest shelf:
“I want it, I want it.”
I’ll get it for you.
I’ll do anything.
The ball flies hard and swift.
Proud, beaming, I am certain.
A clink, echoey and hollow,
And not a one falls,
And I am ashamed, burning red,
Embarrassed by my weakness
`And my empty pockets –
I have nothing, and now you know it,
And now I know it.
And somewhere a tall man with a mustache
Is saying, “Cowboy up, son!
Quit your crying: There’s work to be done
And you won’t get anywhere with a face that long,”
And I hate him.
Everyone’s so practical –
I wish I was practical;
I wish I could shake this
Daydream-tit-sucking-infant mind of mine
A while and just live
And quit chasing ghosts and myths
And quit hating tall men with mustaches
Who never existed.
Crockett comes after work;
Beers with Brad by Plaid,
Cigarettes and the forgiving wind:
We talk of acid trips
And how we drink too much.
We talk of Camus and Heidegger
And astrophysics
And compare the case system of Old English
With that of modern German.
We talk of dreams –
I dream sober, eyes open,
The way I always do.
I lie and say that
I can never remember my dreams
Upon waking.
We talk of lost loves –
“No! Loves unfound!”
Crockett retorts, knowing,
And we agree that it’s more poetic
Than we deserve;
I can’t help but think
Of Sal, his head exploding
In Denver monastery darkness
Beneath mountains crumbling before their time.
I can’t help but think
Of the low Arbuckles, tiny
Now, but once grander
Than Himalayan highs,
And lights burst before me,
Sober. How wonderful
To be born in such a shadow.
A little dazed, and very tired,
I make my way back across town
To my car, thinking how there is no truth
Nor falsehood nor good nor evil,
Only beauty and boredom
And those too tired to know the difference.
But no! No!
There is truth!
There is truth!
There are people who love you
And there is truth in that
And there is beauty in that!
I smile.
I breathe deep the cool late summer night air;
Switchgrass whispers in my over-full thorax.
I am content.
And so, for what it’s worth,
Some advice from an idiot:
Smoke life to the butt,
Suck greedily down the last sweet dribbles
Clinging stubbornly to the core
And be unashamed of the sticky juices
That run slow and precious down your chin.
Be prideful of all the messes you make
Because you are but a flurry of messes,
Yourself, coagulated and floating
Downstream unimaginably fast,
If you are anything.
Because the water is still now,
But one glitter-gold morning
Someday soon, a warm sun will rise
And heat all the stilly world
And love and joy and all the beautiful hope
Will burst forth from our silver ventricles
And flow, at first a trickle,
But then a roaring cascade,
Across the rocky racket that worried us so, for so long,
And make it all smooth,
And make it all shine again;
One glitter-gold morning,
The flowers will break through the concrete,
And the cruel-faced vultures and axmen
Will learn to love again.
Understand that you are a speck of dust
In an infinite field of cold concrete
Pushed around by the fickle wind,
But know that you’re a giant.
Walk and talk and breathe and laugh and love and
Live like a giant.
Be vain of your quirks –
The way your mouth goes crooked when you smile,
Or that laugh that escapes when you get nervous.
Be vain of your quirks
Because somebody loves them,
Because somebody loves you.
Smile at the busted-up concrete
And be thankful that you are breathing,
Be thankful for the busted-up world
And set yourself upon the work to mend it.
Fall in love a little bit with every beautiful thing
You come across, because it matters.
It matters more than anything, more
Than the trendy insecurities we wear,
More than the used-up social fuel
We piss out and then replenish.
And silence is ugly – be loud.
Be loud though it is terrifying.
Be loud because you know
You have something to say.
And so take that thing beating out
From the sweet depths of your chest,
And write it. I’ll lend you my good pen
And a few blank pages
And I’ll wait and smoke my cigarettes
And drink my tea before it gets too cold,
And when you’re finished,
Read it back to me,
Slow and gentle, and we will sigh
And swoon like lovers
Over what wonders we build.
If you have a magnificent monster
Clawing from inside your soul,
Whisper it in my ear,
Let it be free,
Let it be known,
And the water will flow again.