[BNP/E3, 16A – 61-62]
D. T.
The other day indeed,
With my shoe, on the wall,
I killed a centipede
Which was not there at all.
How can that be?
It's very simple, you see -
Just the beginning of D. T.
When the pink alligator
And the tiger without a head
Begin to take stature
And demand to be fed,
As I have no shoes
Fit to kill those,
I think I'll begin thinking:
Should I stop drinking?
But it really doesn't matter…
Am I thinner or fatter
Because this is this?
Would I be wiser or better
If life were other than this is?
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No, nothing is right.
Your love might
Make me better than I
Can be or can try.
But we never know,
Darling, I don't know,
If the sugar of your heart
Would not turn out candy,
So I let my heart smart
And I drink brandy.
Then the centipedes come
Without trouble.
I can see them well
Or even double
I'll see them home
With my shoe
And, when they all go to hell
I'll go too.
Then, on a whole,
I shall be happy indeed,
Because with a shoe.
Real and true
I shall kill the true centipede -
My lost soul.
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