DINER PATRONS: I got me one and you have one, too,
A train of voiceless words that lives inside of you!
That talks above the sounds of Nature in place:
That everlasting fiend without a face!
VERONICA AND DINER PATRONS: Until I fall from bed to floor,
And I'm sacked out and emptied from my core,
The buzzsaw in my ears abides,
Cursing myself or planning homicides.
And I'm sacked out and emptied from my core,
The buzzsaw in my ears abides,
Cursing myself or planning homicides.
DINER PATRONS: The savage knocks and random bruises
Who can stop this narrative or hope to lose it?
Between my ears, behind my eyes they traipse,
Its streams of words, the fiend without a face.
PHILCO AND DINER PATRONS: Dull abstractions, clumsy in the main,
Compose the looping buzz and chatter in my brain
That leaps and jumps, obscuring all I feel,
The joy at hand, with capers and cart-wheels.
Who can stop this narrative or hope to lose it?
Between my ears, behind my eyes they traipse,
Its streams of words, the fiend without a face.
PHILCO AND DINER PATRONS: Dull abstractions, clumsy in the main,
Compose the looping buzz and chatter in my brain
That leaps and jumps, obscuring all I feel,
The joy at hand, with capers and cart-wheels.
DINER PATRONS: I got me one and you have one, too,
A train of voiceless words that lives inside of you!
That talks above the sounds of Nature in place:
That everlasting fiend without a face!
(Repeat chorus.)
(below) The Harrow (after Franz Kafka's "The Penal Colony"), newsprint, cardboard, 17 X 9 X 11" (2022)."
A train of voiceless words that lives inside of you!
That talks above the sounds of Nature in place:
That everlasting fiend without a face!
(Repeat chorus.)
(below) The Harrow (after Franz Kafka's "The Penal Colony"), newsprint, cardboard, 17 X 9 X 11" (2022)."
