I would like (If I May)
I just met the most stunningly amazing girl in the entire world. She has the ending of Eliot's "The Hollow Men" tattooed up her side.
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper
which is funny and all too coincidental since (when Francesca gets here) I am going to get
The hope only
Of empty men
on my right side (because I cannot get my Eliot tattoo without my wife)
And I have always wanted "this is the way the world ends" (which, as some of you may know, is repeated 3 times during that amazing 5th part) somewhere. Now, of course, i cannot get that, but it doesn't matter.
What does matter is that I smell like mangoes, the day is early (or late, but the evening is early upon us) and Shelton and I are planning our party on friday.
there's a party here on Friday night. For all of you who will be in town.
This is the dead land
This is cactus land
Here the stone images
Are raised, here they receive
The supplication of a dead man's hand
Under the twinkle of a fading star.
Is it like this
In death's other kingdom
Waking alone
At the hour when we are
Trembling with tenderness
Lips that would kiss
Form prayers to broken stone.
that is all.
<3
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper
which is funny and all too coincidental since (when Francesca gets here) I am going to get
The hope only
Of empty men
on my right side (because I cannot get my Eliot tattoo without my wife)
And I have always wanted "this is the way the world ends" (which, as some of you may know, is repeated 3 times during that amazing 5th part) somewhere. Now, of course, i cannot get that, but it doesn't matter.
What does matter is that I smell like mangoes, the day is early (or late, but the evening is early upon us) and Shelton and I are planning our party on friday.
there's a party here on Friday night. For all of you who will be in town.
This is the dead land
This is cactus land
Here the stone images
Are raised, here they receive
The supplication of a dead man's hand
Under the twinkle of a fading star.
Is it like this
In death's other kingdom
Waking alone
At the hour when we are
Trembling with tenderness
Lips that would kiss
Form prayers to broken stone.
that is all.
<3