Do You Remember What You Wanted To Know? 2nd Part
You believed in experience, didn’t you?
You believed that experience would refine you,
Augment you, exalt, enlighten, enrich, liberate
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You believed in experience, didn’t you?
You believed that experience would refine you,
Augment you, exalt, enlighten, enrich, liberate
It was always about knowing,
wasn’t it? Those first days
with Mammy holding you the
night a man came to the house
Rivers of blood converged through millennia,
each conversion an expansion and contraction
until diverted into two fork
I’m from the
Bronx, and then they took me
and dropped me out of airplanes
into the jungles of Viet Nam.
To hear it in the rain, lying in the back seat
of a ’62 Valiant, parked on the new streets