If the mother goes to sleep with you

will you run and tell geraldo

If the mother bears your children without tears

without the usual costs of labor

if the mother goes to bed with you

will you run and tell the neighbors

will you hide behind that get up that you wear

or will take the first ear that comes into contact with your blade

like peter did on the hill



will you call her a freak?

will you call them freaks?



if the mother goes to bed with you

will you run and tell the papers

how she picked you from a line up in downtown philadelphia

with a cigarette hangin' out of your mouth and henry miller in your back pocket

you little fucker



if the mother goes to bed with you

in the bowels of the cathedral

will you render her asunder with what she really needs

or will you crash that beautiful silence with some talk about

finding yourself in your mother's arms



will you call her a freak

will you call them freaks

or will you call them gods

will you call them freaks



you know your sperm is weak

you never looked, so high

to ever find her so low

you did not have to go, that far

to show her you were holy



now you know they're gonna come for you

and drag your silly name into the mud

if the mother bears your children without tears

and without the usual cost of labor