Another Head For Hydra

Rainbow Castle: brown bird, common bird - -

How’s your little twig nest been?

Brownbird: I heard you searched the hollow earth

Have you finally found your long lost friend?

Endless words of “a dream deferred”

Wouldn’t have you look my way

So I made the rounds in Germantown

They could barely taste my pancreas that day

The 28th, Will

The Lucky 8th, Bill

Did you win that Grammy, Will?

Good for the landfill

Did you beat Phil?

Did you network well?

[So grew another head for Hydra]

You wanna circle Sinai

Another forty years

Have I made myself?

And myself clear?

Still seduced by the child celebrity appeal

Have I made myself?

Have I made myself?

And myself clear?

Brown eyes, brown eyes

What do you see?

Brown Eyes: brown eyes of an adult looking back at me

Brown eyes, brown eyes

What do you see?

Brown Eyes: hazel eyes & a caterpillar book on my knee

Now you’re gonna explain to me about resilience and fragility?

Circling Sinai

Another forty years?

Have I made myself?

And myself clear?

Let’s watch the desert sky

Do silent shapes appear?

Have I made myself?

In any way myself?

Hold your children close

Whenever we come near?

Speak in children’s prose

For those with ears to hear?

You in the diving bell

Atop the silver skyline

Play the victim well

Who’s the devil this time?

The devil this time?

The devil this time?