| [00:04.044] | I was wallowing in squalor when a note came through the mail |
| [00:08.280] | From a light-fingered acquaintance who'd been lingering in jail |
| [00:12.143] | He had served a year of sentence when the fools had set him free |
| [00:16.408] | And he'd had a good idea he said he'd like to put to me |
| [00:19.938] | |
| [00:20.468] | I said come on then, let's have it, there's a twinkle in his eye |
| [00:25.105] | He says let me put it this way, have you ever wondered why |
| [00:29.163] | The rich have so much money when, if push should come to crunch |
| [00:33.439] | You can only be in one room and only eat one lunch |
| [00:36.769] | |
| [00:37.835] | A cogent observation, but I didn't have the time |
| [00:41.991] | I presumed this exposition must be leading to a crime |
| [00:46.105] | He said wait a precious moment I am trying to set the scene |
| [00:50.082] | If you liberate your mind my friend you'll soon see what I mean |
| [00:54.186] | |
| [00:54.568] | He said have you ever wondered how a horse becomes a glue? |
| [00:58.868] | Or how my uncle's pencil reached a garden in Peru? |
| [01:03.056] | And have you tried valerian, the side-effects are strange |
| [01:07.226] | There is no such thing as accident, for everything's arranged |
| [01:10.677] | |
| [01:10.840] | I said listen friend your time inside has clearly flipped your mind |
| [01:15.765] | These are merely hypotheticals I haven't got the time |
| [01:19.963] | If it's blackmailing on Snapchat or a hold-up count on me |
| [01:24.165] | But this claptrap that you're spouting now just sounds like poetry |
| [01:27.444] | |
| [01:27.647] | Do not be so narrow-minded, my erstwhile accomplice trilled |
| [01:32.669] | I've had lots of time for poetry it's left me rather thrilled |
| [01:36.372] | I've been reading the New York School: Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch |
| [01:40.546] | And they've given me more pleasure than a thousand dirty jokes |
| [01:44.081] | |
| [02:01.891] | Well he's published by Macmillan now, he got a big advance |
| [02:06.104] | Which he spent on buying a farmhouse in a pleasant part of France |
| [02:10.420] | His first book won a Pulitzer, he's up for a Nobel |
| [02:14.241] | They say you can't change human nature but he's doing rather well |
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