I AM NOW IN AMERICA
Tease me, taser, televised all,
from Tulane to Tuscaloosa. I am
- just like that image - ten new
feet tall. And out of joint as ever.
All the old caves and by-ways are
gone. That forest closes me in.
From the straight road (yes) I
woke to find myself (yes) alone
in a dark wood. And I say (yes,
yes!) what wood that was! Its
very meaning gives shape to fear.
-
Damn Dantean scowl, kept wrapped
and cloistered here at home: for whatever
reason we ride, those selfsame voices be.
They speak of rogue and habit, neither
of place nor strange. And, ah! how
ordinary now all things have become.
So rank, so rank, so arduous then,
this wilderness left behind us.
Tease me, taser, televised all,
from Tulane to Tuscaloosa. I am
- just like that image - ten new
feet tall. And out of joint as ever.
All the old caves and by-ways are
gone. That forest closes me in.
From the straight road (yes) I
woke to find myself (yes) alone
in a dark wood. And I say (yes,
yes!) what wood that was! Its
very meaning gives shape to fear.
-
Damn Dantean scowl, kept wrapped
and cloistered here at home: for whatever
reason we ride, those selfsame voices be.
They speak of rogue and habit, neither
of place nor strange. And, ah! how
ordinary now all things have become.
So rank, so rank, so arduous then,
this wilderness left behind us.
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