Jan lays down and wrestles in her sleep

moonlight spills on comic books

and superstars in magazines

an old friend calls and tells us where to

meet

her plane takes off from Baltimore

and touches down on Bourbon street

we sit outside and argue all night long

about a god we've never seen

but never fails to side with me

Sunday comes and all the papers say

Ma Teresa's joined the mob

and happy with her full time job

am I alive or thoughts that drift away?

does summer come for everyone?

can humans do as prophets say?

and if I die before I learn to speak

can money pay for all the days I lived

awake

but half asleep?

a life is time, they teach us growing up

the seconds ticking killed us all

a million years before the fall

you ride the waves and don't ask where

they go

you swim like lions through the crest

and bathe yourself on zebra flesh

I've been downhearted baby,

ever since the day we met