morning new disease charcoal in bed   boansoaked anemic listen in horror   to the scraping of flatware and china   and saran wrap to stifle libido   air shaft a chasm their lives flung open   sickness is a time for hating your neighbors   in their milk flats with five kids too many   having day sex because they're all daughters   and you're thinking the same two things   over and over again   I am dreaming of a life and I am dreaming of waking up   there's this anger rising cancer in me standing like a wall between   the waking world I seek and this infected plane of sleep   love come like an axe to all this ice and set me free   there's a black rewarding book   beneath this stiff sheet if you look carefully   noise police white hearse tv air wave methadone   diet contact safe sex antibiotics   for your safety we've taken sharp objects   it's their object to keep you from waking   taste test serenade we dig the grave   lose weight astrologically no money down   for your enjoyment we've excised the dialogue   for your protection we've installed a camera   just keep thinking the same clean thoughts   and keep telling yourself it's allright   I am dreaming of a life   and it's not the life that's mine   in a stolen car I rocket west out past that Jersey line   and the robots in their riot gear glimmer in my rearview mirror   love came like an axe and had her way with this coarse earth   and a small deserving book she was recovered and understood   and I awoke