He told me that I knew just what to laugh at
And I wanted to but I just couldn't ask if he would take it back
So I could know for certain
So on the bench I watched his left hand crossing
While
doubling on tongue twos with the visings
He said, oh darling, you're charming
Please don't find it alarming if I pull this
Stop out two three up the hand for having petty
Now there there,
I'm a friendly man
I joke about sex because it's funny when you're
frightened
So silently I sat and turned the pages
Recalculating our respective ages
Over my shoulder he muttered,
if I get any older You can **** my wrist off
with your choice of objects Now I'm kidding,
don't be scared,
I'm a friendly man
I joke about death because it's funny when you're frightened
This is as far as I could get He jabbed a needle in my neck Erasing
all the evidence But there were matchsticks in my pants And it
ruptured in my head And I remember what he did You'll be the very first
to know Maybe I'll find out why this damn thing won't stop bleeding
He
told me that I showed a great potential
That given I turned ten pages,
fame would be a piece of cake
But practice was
essential So like a stupid child I believed it
And golly,
who would ever have agreed If I had been Schubert or Mozart
Devoted to the fine art of perfecting
Absolutely everything inconsequential
Don't be sad,
I'll come back again
I joke about trash because it takes class
to be enlightened
Several decades have gone by I am still sitting by his side
I turn the pages faithfully He turns his head and smiles at me
And with a wink he says,
I doubt we would be anywhere
Without your gift for keeping truth and consequence from needing
Ah!