Against shame & unfair odds, I fought you while all the while you despised me, belligerent. I shuddered, shivering, would or did you care for us ? yet I knew you hated us outright, with all the tidy inattention that smelled of you, the clean & quite tidy corners
Reminds me of a poem by Jimmy Carroll, he of the Basketball Diary's, Wicked Gravity
Jim Carroll Band
Catholic Boy
Wicked Gravity
The gravity here is just sick for revenge
It's like my lungs are filled with chains . . .
The sky seems so low,
It hasn't moved this slow
Since the virgins, since the virgins went dancing for the rain
You know the stars in the night
They're like the holes in the cave
Like the ceiling of a bombed-out church
But gravity blocks my screams
It's like an enemy's dreams
My guardians quit
They quit before they started their search
Refrain:
I want a world without gravity
It could be just what I need
I'd watch the stars move close
I'd watch the earth recede
I wanna drift above the borders against my will
I wanna sleep where the angels don't pass
But now my lips are blue
Gravity does it to you
It's like they're pressed against a mirrored glass
I want my will and capability to meet inside the region
Where this gravity don't mean a thing
It's where the angels break through . . .
It's where they bring it to you
It's where silence, silence can teach me to sing
Repeat Refrain 2 times
I wanna lay beneath these sheets and never turn blue
I wanna hold you, hold you tight but never touch
I want some pure, pure white; hey, we can nod all night
We can do it without thinking too much
I want the dilettantes and parvenues to choke on my wit
They think the pearls I wear are pills
I want their gravity to shatter . . . but it really doesn't matter
I got something in my eye that kills!
Repeat Refrain
Wicked, wicked, wicked, wicked gravity . . .
Wicked, wicked, wicked, wicked gravity . . .
Wicked, wicked, wicked, wicked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73QE3i8ZFiE
Mon chėre Soufi,
there's naught that's so sublime as that
which is the fertile, fervent mind.
I salute you sir, and your majestic, poetical command!