Opening:
Even in the limning
despair, there is the spirit of love
masked by want and fulfillment
or perhaps cocooned and shadowy
It is to those who can and must help themselves
that I speak to, you depressed men and young women
to follow my precepts
for the wheel of fortune is forgiving
and life is sweet!
Precepts:
Savor the air, tend to your small garden
or secondhand car, don't slide into alcholism
tolerate the superficial
You may not be a virile-looking specimen
or have that special effect on the opposite sex
but don't polish your plaintive violin
Be passive, and certainly be patient
another year looms
and swifly the poised music
will make us laugh
Seek a surrogate mother in the moon
cuddle the sun in the yard
The brittle spirit
will find satisfaction in the small
things
and this will go a long way
No need destorying yourself
in the childness
of anguish
and maudlin tears
This should be your rhapsody:
Oh, friendly nieghbor! let's be together
and if it be only in spirit, that will be just fine
with me
Oh, stoic hope! I'll make do with the four seasons
lonely winter, affectionate autumn
companionable summer, and our mutul friend
spring
The moral of this rhapsody:
It has always been like this
even in the widowed year
or the month of the affable slob
or the days of madness and
desolate spirits
So open the doors and windows
for I've found the crucial notion
against our despair
in the blood of night
And So It Will Be:
One day you'll have
a meeting
a crush, a girlfriend
a boyfriend
and touch the leaf of sex
Over time
you'll be a well-balanced
individual
You'll grow senile
and sit at
the dinner-table
you may see son, daughter
and friend
and they'll see mother, father
and friend
And in the course of life
you'll be the most moral
person, and your kindness will
be exmplefied to one and all
because when you were young
you died a little every day
in circling sadness
but you'll have succeeded it all
and while everyone else celebrates
birthdays and anniversaries
you'll be celebrating the bright
warmth of togetherness
