A Tale

A Tale

He didn't spend a dime

Of what his mother willed him.

When he saw the truth,

It practically killed him.

She has a lot of friends.

Her family is legion.

She just got back from hell

And settled in this region.

Is reality the same

For puppy dogs and ducks?
Love is only temporary.

Everybody fucks.

40 years a celibate,

Happy in the rain,

Someone made a play for him

And he went quite insane.

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People

A world of loving mongrels

And just a single bone.

None of them is happy,

And each of them alone.

Each a different story

And all of them are odd,

Alone or in a bar,

Crazier than god

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Therapists

To change your personality

Will break your mind in two.

The person that you want to be

Was never really you.

Consider it in poetry.

Keep the world at bay.

They'll murder you in therapy.

At last you'll go away.

And perching like a chanticleer

And wise upon a roof,

They'll crow and everyone will hear,

And they remain aloof.

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Songs

Only music makes me cry.

People never do.

And just the more exciting songs,

Unless they're very sad.

“Danny Boy”, Roberta Flack,

“Among My Souvenirs”,

The trio from “The Tales of Hoffmann”,

The gypsy song from “Carmen”,

But only sung by Callas -

A few that I remember.

Maudlin words and chintzy tunes

Go across my shoulder.

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