歌词
Lady, your room is lousy with flowers.
When you kick me out, that's what I'll remember,
Me, sitting here bored as a loepard
In your jungle of wine-bottle lamps,
Velvet pillows the color of blood pudding
And the white china flying fish from Italy.
I forget you, hearing the cut flowers
Sipping their liquids from assorted pots,
Pitchers and Coronation goblets
Like Monday drunkards. The milky berries
Bow down, a local constellation,
Toward their admirers in the tabletop:
Mobs of eyeballs looking up.
Are those petals of leaves you've paried with them —-
Those green-striped ovals of silver tissue?
The red geraniums I know.
Friends, friends. They stink of armpits
And the invovled maladies of autumn,
Musky as a lovebed the morning after.
My nostrils prickle with nostalgia.
Henna hags: cloth of your cloth.
They tow old water thick as fog.
The roses in the Toby jug
Gave up the ghost last night. High time.
Their yellow corsets were ready to split.
You snored, and I heard the petals unlatch,
Tapping and ticking like nervous fingers.
You should have junked them before they died.
Daybreak discovered the bureau lid
Littered with Chinese hands. Now I'm stared at
By chrysanthemums the size
Of Holofernes' head, dipped in the same
Magenta as this fubsy sofa.
In the mirror their doubles back them up.
Listen: your tenant mice
Are rattling the cracker packets. Fine flour
Muffles their bird feet: they whistle for joy.
And you doze on, nose to the wall.
This mizzle fits me like a sad jacket.
How did we make it up to your attic?
You handed me gin in a glass bud vase.
We slept like stones. Lady, what am I doing
With a lung full of dust and a tongue of wood,
Knee-deep in the cold swamped by flowers?
专辑信息
1.America
2.The Secret of My Endurance
3.The Opening of the Battle of Gettysburg
4.Cities of the Red Night
5.Lester Leaps In
6.Recuerdo
7.Ode to My Shoes
8.Love Recognized
9.Scars
10.The Children's Undercroft
11.The Colonel
12.Uh Oh Plutonium
13.Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
14.American Haikus (Excerpt)
15.Dear John, Dear Coltrane
16.The Old Flame
17.My Father, In Heaven, Is Reading Out Loud
18.Logan Heights and the World
19.Monet Refuses the Operation
20.Despisals
21.The Lake Isle of Innisfree
22.My Sisters, O My Sisters
23.In Memory of W.B. Yeats (Part 1)
24.Here I Am With Mike in Hand, Shooting Down the Rapids...
25.In Our Time
26.Tia Chucha
27.I Am Offering You This Poem
28.Junky Relations
29.I Killed a Fly...
30.So and So Reclining On Her Couch
31.Epilogue
32.We Were So Poor...
33.Love Calls Us to the Things of This World
34.Birches
35.Bird-Witted
36.If I Were Tickled By the Rub of Love
37.The Song of the Old Mother
38.This Is the Solution, To Be Happy With Slaughter...
39.It Is
40.I Was Stolen By the Gypsies...
41.Elegy for Jane
42.Wonder
43.Prayer
44.King of the River
45.Portrait of the Artist As a Prematurely Old Man
46.This Is Number 26
47.What About Dying?...
48.Sonnet for Minimalists
49.The Negro Speaks of Rivers
50.Mulatto
51.Next to of Course God America
52.Ballad of the Gypsy
53.The Road Not Taken
54.Odysseus to Telemachus
55.The Fine Printing On the Label of a Bottle of Non-Alcohol Beer
56.Crossing Over
57.Skunk Hour
58.Wild Gratitude
59.For Poets
60.Shame
61.To Juan At the Winter Solstice
62.Berck-Plage
63.Translator's Son
64.To Elsie
65.Everybody Knows the Story...
66.Rough
67.Love Is Not All
68.I Knew a Woman
69.Winter
70.Parsley
71.For Anna Mae Pictou Aquash
72.The World Is So Difficult to Give Up...
73.Song
74.Last Gods
75.The Tent People of Beverly Hills
76.Leaving Early
77.The Sweat Lodge
78.Happiness
79.Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town
80.Tia Sophia
81.After Making Love We Hear Footsteps
82.A Dance for Militant Diletantes
83.The Red Wheelbarrow
84.America
85.Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (Excerpt)
86.Raisin Eyes
87.The Gift Outright
88.Thoughts During an Air Raid
89.One Kiss
90.The Ballad of Orange and Grape
91.Clem Snide
92.The Concrete River
93.Underwear
94.I Have Had to Learn to Live With My Face
95.The Lost Pilot
96.See It Was Like This When...
97.If I Told Him (A Completed Portrait of Picasso)
98.The Seasons
99.Apology
100.Thanksgrieving