One of the Points in Space that Contain All Points
As a youth you knew too much Our classmates found it creepy But for me, I adored every forking trail Each impossible detail In your cousin's basement where we made out after graduation I was clumsy graceless but you tasted like the hundred names of God I saw it there in the maze of boxes underneath the stairs In that iridescent amethyst, I saw everything that exists Beatriz, why did you leave me? Beatriz, why did you leave me? A dismal joke, the wryest smile If I could see your dreams I'd call the cops Then I did and I understood You wanted it to stop In your cousin's basement when the sheriff took my statement He said you went to a phony Osteen heaven but he just "meant what a waste" I saw the labyrinth of London and the horses of the Caspian, The ocean's deepest blue, Bea, I saw everything but you Beatriz, why did you leave me? Beatriz, why did you leave me? Just a dream, a dream so big I'll never wake up from the slumber Just a pall, a pall too wide to ever crawl out from under In your cousin's basement, now I gaze at it impatiently The rain in Buenos Aires, a blind man in his library, Arabian idolatry, a drug deal in a Dollar Tree, A pyramid of onyx, Bea, the breadth of the world makes me sick Beatriz, why did you leave me? Beatriz, why did you leave me? |