D-Minor

A borrowed fern with a cigarette burn

And a pawn shop ring in her hand

At the Idaho courts to affirm our divorce

Before the marriage began

In a celery boat singing triangle notes

To a horn from the military band

The spectreworks care of Pepper & Dircks’

Bargain Ghost and Haunted Man

We awkwardly shielded the curious eyes

Of innocent pines from the forest floor

From the frying pan of a celibate man

To the fires of the premature

Who could ask for nothing more?

We're an unshrunk patch on a tear of the edge

We're an unshrunk patch on a tear of the edge

We're a campaign badge, the short-lived match

Of an unshrunk patch in the bellow's edge

On the iron lungs of our language

A by-now acquired a fern with a cigarette burn

In a basket with a (rectangle) note on the bedroom floor:

They repaired my fence, those bastards

I can't go back home no more

Save by a roundabout way, unto each day

Is sufficient misfortune thereof

With which to spend in proportion to your modest pay

While shopping around for a word like 'love.'

--With obedient trust as a babe in the womb

And impeccably chaste as a priest in the tomb

With a Deadwood map and a dynamite hat

I'll come back to Idaho soon

Harmless as a Danish cartoon

This is not the first time

This is not the first time G-d has died

This is not the first time

This is not the first time G-d has died

This is not the first time capitalized three lettered sound has died

This is not the first time

This is not the first time

Won't you help me get by?

Will you help me get by?

Won't you help me get by?

Will you help me get by?

Won't you help me get by?

Will you help me get by?