We Clever Types

 

Let us now, we clever types

Let us now retire

We’ve said our piece, we’ve

Shown our wit, we’ve lit

Your soul on fire

 

Let us now, we clever types

Show you what we’re made of

Spit and shit and bricks and muck

Tricks and splints and lots of luck

We’ll eat you up we’ll eat you love

 

So let us now, we clever types

Pull back for you the curtain

To show a writhing pile of snakes

Now a pit all lined with stakes

The knotted tails of twenty rats

The guano of one million bats

 

And if you are not yet certain

That you will never really know this person

Let us now un scale your sight

Reveal to you your real plight

For these are all the seeds we’ve sown

 

The person that you pledge yourself to

Is as much a stranger as the one who

You’ve never met and never known