Ed was at the end of his rope, an he detested "There is no rope", he would scream at the walls is only the end, no hope, no rope Ending is better than Doors of perception, of opportunity These are illusions the killing floor
Ed in a squeaky whiny voice With perhaps a tinge of glee But this was only because he be bothered To try to develop a of speaking That reflected his mood
This is a vaccum, is no air in this room Despair is no fun Nihilism knocked three times on the But the rosy of dawn always inserted themselves In the nose of unfulfilled
sang, "Heysanna, Hosanna" Paralyzed prima-donnas danced in the all day But when the darkness came, everybody went I was ready, else was asleep
And while it might have been a to see I was right all along Here I am still, alone and the endless end
And I can it all around And laugh at it and at myself I can laugh than the walls, the halls, the waterfalls Louder than Charles De Gaul or Fulton
But I don't know I'm laughing at I know just what I think is so goddamn 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" wasn't actually true Ed's was an obvious forgery
His three Rothkos had just singled out In an article in forum' entitled 'The Most Insignificant Paintings of Mark Rothko' And his Barbara had been irreparably damaged By Rein Sanction and a few other from Gainesville refused to acknowledge the value of art
"Come to of it", Ed mused To the laminated roadkill coffee table that he had When had seemed slightly less bleak "Come to think of it, not does art have no intrinsic value But my collection has no value either"
"I I'm not a millionaire But that's no reason to There is no reason to There is no to do anything"
"I don't believe in reason, objective reality or farming I don't believe in speaking is another reason why I'm here alone I don't believe in or death I would kill myself but I don't in suicide"
Ed put on a red shirt and took a quick around the block whistling softly to himself He his apartment screaming "There is no on this planet"
"Jehovah One replaced all life with machinery five ago The so-called Industrial Was just another and we all fell for it 'Cause we were all programmed to, even I for it I believe in the engine Even though I don't in anything"
Logical is the Mr. Bubble I bathe in Each and every evening, for yesterday evening When I bladed over to the Masonic Temple To play pinochle with John Paul the First 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 Senator of Louisiana Announced over closed circuit And as as he continues to pontificate pointlessly I do nothing
Ed walked from the program feeling fortified and stapled His was buzzing, the way it always did just after 'Jeopardy' He loaded up the micro bus with and poseidons And headed for County
"I've had it", he sang, "I've had it with puns, literature, Italian neorealism Meaningless cross references and laundry of nonsense I shall drive a license, without clothing, without direction"
"And if I make it to Arkansas, And if I'm running late, if I'm running a numbers It doesn't matter, I keep on running"
"Yes, this is the answer, is the ending, I shall keep on running Because a body in motion tends to stay And it's better to feel, pain is better than Emptiness is than nothing, and nothing is better than this"