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"What so sweetly rhymed as woe..."

"Whistling Past the Graveyard

Coming in on the night train with an arm full of box cars
On the wings of a magpie across a hooligan night
Busted up a chifforobe way out by the Cocomo
Cooked up a mess a mulligan and got into a fight

  [Chorus]

Whistlin' past the graveyard
Steppin' on a crack
I'm a mean motherhubba
Papa one eyed jack

You probably seen me sleepin' out by the railroad tracks
Ask the prince of darkness about the smoke from the stack
Sometimes I kill a jackal and suck out all the blood
Steal myself a station-wagon, drive it into the mud

[Chorus]

I know you've seen my headlights and the honkin' of my horn
I'm callin' out my bloodhounds, chase the devil out the corn
Last night I cracked the Mississippi but now it's dry as a bone
I was born in a taxi cab, I ain't never goin' home

[Chorus]

My eyes have seen the glory of the drainin' of the ditch
I'm comin' to Baton Rouge to find myself a witch
I'm gonna switch me a couple of 'em every time it rains
You gotta see a locomotive, probably think it's a train

[Chorus]

What you think is sunshine is just a twinkle in my eye
I got a ring around my finger called the 4th of July
When I get lonesome, a tear falls from my cheek
There's gonna be an ocean in the middle of the week

[Chorus]

I come in on the night train with an arm full of box cars
On the wings of a magpie across a hooligan night
I'm gonna tear off a rainbow and wear it for a tie
I never told the truth so how in the hell can I tell a lie?

[Chorus]" (via genius lyrics)

--Tom Waits

♏️ 🦂GM🦂 ♏️.

"the metrics of salvation"

refrangible frontage · dredgethwart
of riverine ruin · i rue more
the car that cuts · across my hent
than myriads mulched · in the march of flagcraft

where would i wave · my Kinko's-printed
oversize sign · & risk rowdy
cops conking · my Medicare cap
in front of blank skyscrapers · blithely unaware

yet i may nudge neighbor · on conveyor vap
may whisper softly · subversive themes
morn's rays cutting through · shadowy scrimmage
of silver & gray · grisly capsules

Not enough headlights.