The Swansong of J. Alfred Prufrock
There's a gentleman with a blue buttoned shirt,
white teeth, white bride, white cuffs and collar.
He's selling me international pride,
by the dollar.
By the dollar, I rise and decaying fall.
I'm waitingwaitingwaiting for a margin call.
I want something drastic--fearful--severe.
I want to stamp and thump and glare.
And indeed there will be time
to wonder 'Do I care?' and, 'Do I care?'
And indeed there will be time (Will there be time?)
to wonder how I'll fare.
Beautiful Radha's praying harder.
Wonders, 'Are they there?', 'Do they care?', 'Are they there?'
She's still too young (much too young, much too young)
to know not to be belong, and see how they're wrong.
Following blindly and swallowing kindly all lies that they feed you.
Whenever they plead you touch your toes like a game.
They'd kill us, so you'll kill in their name.
At the moment they find you they instantly blind you,
Terror's a man just see the noun with a wrist
they wished you'd slit. You dance and sing their praise,
'Last days! Spend now! You've been warned!'
Yet again, I'm virtually vegan and force fed
raw mince, live fish, and bloodied bacon fat.
A paste a carnivore would not explore,
and worse for one whose hunting days are done.
So close to death, I've a tweed hat, a cane,
an ill-shaped spine, a cut-throat hatred of youth,
and I'm many, many marbles short of a brain.
Yet again, I'm virtually vegan and force fed
raw mince, live fish, and bloodied bacon fat.
Remember our time in the steakhouse?
Your Daddy gorged a forty ounce beef steak,
And he asked if better times exist.
I prayed to Christ to think in larger terms
and not believe that carnage creates bliss.
I have fevers in oceans, and chills when I see.
How much worse can it get before it just can't be?
And how many times must I throw it in the air?
How can I defeat the forces rallying against me?
I'm the Unilateralist Power of my reality.
Kubold's waiting for me,
I'd been entertaining an eternity.
I'll still end up dead.
I'll be paraded in the streets and burned like an effigy.