| What we once thought we had we didn’t, and what we have now will never be that
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| way again
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| So we call upon the author to explain
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| Our myxomatoid kids spraddle the streets, we’ve shunned them from the
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| greasy-grind
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| The poor little things, they look so sad and old as they mount us from behind
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| I ask them to desist and to refrain
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| And then we call upon the author to explain
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| Rosary clutched in his hand, he died with tubes up his nose
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| And a cabal of angels with finger cymbals chanted his name in code
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| We shook our fists at the punishing rain
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| And we call upon the author to explain
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| He said everything is messed up around here, everything is banal and jejune
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| There is a planetary conspiracy against the likes of you and me in this idiot
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| constituency of the moon
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| Well, he knew exactly who to blame
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| And we call upon the author to explain
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| Prolix! |
| Prolix! |
| Nothing a pair of scissors can’t fix!
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| Prolix! |
| Prolix! |
| Nothing a pair of scissors can’t fix!
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| Well, I go guruing down the street, young people gather round my feet
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| Ask me things, but I don’r know where to start
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| They ignite the power-trail ssstraight to my father’s heart
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| And once again I call upon the author to explain
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| We call upon the author to explain
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| Who is this great burdensome slavering dog-thing that mediocres my every
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| thought?
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| I feel like a vacuum cleaner, a complete sucker, it’s fucked up and he is a
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| fucker
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| But what an enormous and encyclopaedic brain
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| I call upon the author to explain
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| Oh rampant discrimination, mass poverty, third world debt, infectious diseease
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| Global inequality and deepening socio-economic divisions
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| Well, it does in your brain
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| And we call upon the author to explain
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| Now hang on, my friend Doug is tapping on the window (Hey Doug, how you been?)
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| Brings me back a book on holocaust poetry complete with pictures
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| Then tells me to get ready for the rain
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| And we call upon the author to explain
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| I say prolix! |
| Prolix! |
| Something a pair of scissors can fix
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| Bukowski was a jerk! |
| Berryman was best!
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| He wrote like wet papier mache, went the Heming-way weirdly on wings and with
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| maximum pain
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| We call upon the author to explain
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| Down in my bolthole I see they’ve published another volume of unreconstructed
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| rubbish
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| «The waves, the waves were soldiers moving». |
| Well, thank you, thank you,
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| thank you
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| And again I call upon the author to explain
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| Yeah, we call upon the author to explain
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| Prolix! |
| Prolix! |
| There’s nothing a pair of scissors can’t fix! |