morning new disease charcoal in bed
  boansoaked anemic listen in horror
  to the scraping of flatware and china
  and saran wrap to stifle libido
  air shaft a chasm their lives flung open
  sickness is a time for hating your neighbors
  in their milk flats with five kids too many
  having day sex because they're all daughters
  and you're thinking the same two things
  over and over again
  I am dreaming of a life and I am dreaming of waking up
  there's this anger rising cancer in me standing like a wall between
  the waking world I seek and this infected plane of sleep
  love come like an axe to all this ice and set me free
  there's a black rewarding book
  beneath this stiff sheet if you look carefully
  noise police white hearse tv air wave methadone
  diet contact safe sex antibiotics
  for your safety we've taken sharp objects
  it's their object to keep you from waking
  taste test serenade we dig the grave
  lose weight astrologically no money down
  for your enjoyment we've excised the dialogue
  for your protection we've installed a camera
  just keep thinking the same clean thoughts
  and keep telling yourself it's allright
  I am dreaming of a life
  and it's not the life that's mine
  in a stolen car I rocket west out past that Jersey line
  and the robots in their riot gear glimmer in my rearview mirror
  love came like an axe and had her way with this coarse earth
  and a small deserving book she was recovered and understood
  and I awoke