E Is Missing

E is missing

He's not in his room

Rome is no longer behind him

The gris-gris heard there was water on Mars

And he's on his way to fix it

His fingernails are missing, one through ten

And there's ink all over the place

Nowhere .... was not here

Nowhere's not there

Nowhere is nowhere

His soul's in the corner

Very uptight

It's ugly

But it's not meant to be

A derelict lighthouse

Signalling men

In shipwrecks under the ocean

Secret bruises from a writing machine

Dismantled in a winter landscape

His fingernails are missing, one through ten

And there's ink all over the place