In the darkness

No one stops to say

Hello, hello

How you going?

Strangers gesture

At big screens

Hooray for the cripple!

Hooray for the human microscope!

Now are we only carving sheep, taking vitamins, out to lunch with the in-laws, licking stamps, getting headaches?

At the bottom of the sea

Abstinence needs quiet company

Is that the tight dress that you wore now all in pieces on the floor?

Come on, let’s get to the bottom of it!

In the darkness, we just seem to slip away . .

In the darkness

Sweeping sounds precede the wind

Cutting in and out of children

Yelping in the snow

And now that the soldier is home

And he tags along with all of the others

Do they need him around?

Do they want him around anymore?

Oh, are we only milking beef, letting violins in, weeping beyond sunken buildings?

It’s just a graceful full-body sneeze

And the cable car that’s stuttering ‘neath your knees!