Ed was at the end of his rope, an he detested "There is no rope", he scream at the laughing walls There is the end, no hope, no rope is better than mending Doors of perception, windows of These are illusions like the killing
Ed in a squeaky whiny voice With a slight tinge of glee But this was because he couldn't be bothered To try to develop a of speaking That truly reflected his
This is a vaccum, there is no air in room is no fun anymore Nihilism knocked times on the ceiling But the rosy fingers of dawn inserted themselves In the nose of promises
sang, "Heysanna, Hosanna" Paralyzed prima-donnas in the streets all day But the darkness came, everybody went home I was ready, else was asleep
And while it might been a relief to see That I was all along I am still, alone and trapped Awaiting the end
And I can it all around And laugh at it and laugh at I can laugh louder the walls, the halls, the waterfalls Louder than Charles De Gaul or Fulton
But I don't know what I'm at I don't know just what I think is so goddamn I don't know why I don't just up And give up and lay and die
"What do I have to complain anyway?" Ed his Picasso, "I'm a millionaire" This wasn't actually Ed's Picasso was an forgery
His three Rothkos had been singled out In an in 'Art forum' entitled 'The Three Most Insignificant of Mark Rothko' And his Barbara Krugers had been irreparably By Rein and a few other bands from Gainesville That to acknowledge the value of art
"Come to of it", Ed mused To the laminated coffee table that he had purchased When times had seemed less bleak "Come to think of it, not only does art no intrinsic value But my collection has no extrinsic either"
"I know I'm not a But no reason to complain There is no to complain is no reason to do anything"
"I believe in reason, objective reality or collective farming I don't believe in speaking Which is another reason why I'm alone I don't believe in life or I kill myself but I don't believe in suicide"
Ed put on a red shirt and took a quick walk around the While whistling to himself He reentered his screaming "There is no life on planet"
"Jehovah One all life with machinery five centuries ago The so-called Revolution Was just another and we all fell for it 'Cause we all programmed to, even I fell for it I in the steam engine Even though I believe in anything"
Logical is the Mr. Bubble I bathe in Each and every evening, except for yesterday When I roller bladed to the Masonic Temple To pinochle with Pope John Paul the First I had no choice in the matter"
Ed certainly go on and on And he did, and he and he will you or I or somebody does something about it Senator of Louisiana Announced over circuit television And as as he continues to pontificate pointlessly I will do
Ed walked away from the program feeling and stapled His brain was buzzing, the way it always did after 'Jeopardy' He up the micro bus with atlases and poseidons And for Pope County
"I've had it", he sang, "I've had it with puns, Russian literature, Italian Meaningless cross references and lists of nonsense I shall drive without a license, clothing, without direction"
"And if I it to Arkansas, fine And if I'm running late, if I'm a numbers game It doesn't matter, I keep on running"
"Yes, this is the answer, this is the ending, I shall keep on Because a body in tends to stay emotional And it's better to feel, pain is better than Emptiness is than nothing, and nothing is better than this"