New York Has a Lump in Her Throat - Jealous Of The Birds

New York has a lump in her throat

She tore up the letters I wrote

Long Island Shore is ravaged today

Stones cry out, what do they say?

Joggers run in lines of Morse code

A beetle’s blood seeped into the road

I store up the fragments & grit

Unkind words, sweet lover’s spit

Wail me down, baby

Wail me down

Fire escapes and dreams of Hades

Wail me down, wail me down

The same energy which created a symphony by Mozart is shared by The Beatles in

making Sgt.

Pepper

It is the same intuitive impulse of the imagination

Which in itself is perhaps the closest mankind can ever come to a sense of the

divine

The interesting part in all this is attempting to reconcile those two impulses

The impulse to impersonate and the impulse to invent

It seems as though being an artist involves maintaining that equilibrium

In a way that isn’t a detriment to you or your craft

The caravans of childhood are gone

But August sunlight scorches the lawn

Dharma bluebells blossom in me

Orgastic green vibrates from the trees

City in mind and city in breath

A million pixels manifest death

Champagne sipped from four paper cups

Benzaiten is soon to wake up

Wail me down, baby

Wail me down

Fire escapes and dreams of Hades

Wail me down, wail me down

Wail me down, baby

Wail me down

Fire escapes and dreams of Hades

Wail me down, wail me down