Ed was at the end of his rope, an expression he "There is no rope", he would scream at the laughing There is the end, no hope, no rope Ending is better than Doors of perception, windows of These are illusions like the killing
Ed spoke in a squeaky whiny With perhaps a slight tinge of But this was only because he be bothered To try to develop a of speaking That truly reflected his
This is a vaccum, is no air in this room Despair is no fun knocked three times on the ceiling But the rosy fingers of dawn always inserted In the of unfulfilled promises
sang, "Heysanna, Hosanna" Paralyzed prima-donnas in the streets all day But when the darkness came, everybody home I was ready, everyone was asleep
And while it have been a relief to see That I was right all Here I am still, and trapped Awaiting the end
And I can turn it all And laugh at it and laugh at I can louder than the walls, the halls, the waterfalls Louder than Charles De Gaul or Fulton
But I know what I'm laughing at I don't know just what I think is so funny I know why I don't just shut up And give up and lay and die
"What do I have to about anyway?" Ed his Picasso, "I'm a millionaire" This actually true Ed's Picasso was an forgery
His three Rothkos had just been out In an in 'Art forum' entitled 'The Three Most Insignificant Paintings of Rothko' And his Barbara Krugers had been damaged By Rein Sanction and a few other bands Gainesville That to acknowledge the value of art
"Come to of it", Ed mused To the laminated roadkill coffee that he had purchased When times had slightly less bleak "Come to think of it, not only does art have no value But my collection has no value either"
"I I'm not a millionaire But that's no reason to There is no to complain There is no to do anything"
"I don't believe in reason, objective or collective farming I believe in public speaking Which is reason why I'm here alone I believe in life or death 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 on this planet"
"Jehovah One replaced all life with five centuries ago The so-called Industrial Was just another and we all fell for it 'Cause we all programmed to, even I fell for it I in the steam engine though I don't believe in anything"
Logical is the Mr. Bubble I bathe in Each and every evening, for yesterday evening When I roller bladed over to the Masonic To play pinochle with Pope John Paul the I really had no in the matter"
Ed could go on and on And he did, and he would and he Until you or I or somebody does about it Sterno of Louisiana Announced over circuit television And as long as he to pontificate pointlessly I do nothing
Ed walked away the program feeling fortified and stapled His brain was buzzing, the way it did just after 'Jeopardy' He loaded up the micro bus with and poseidons And headed for Pope
"I've had it", he sang, "I've had it with puns, literature, Italian neorealism Meaningless cross references and lists of nonsense I shall without a license, without clothing, without direction"
"And if I make it to Arkansas, And if I'm late, if I'm running a numbers game It doesn't matter, I keep on running"
"Yes, this is the answer, this is the ending, I shall on running Because a in motion tends to stay emotional And it's better to feel, pain is better than is better than nothing, and nothing is better than this"