Fred Nitsch
Daffodils

Picked your needles out with eyes
Top iceberg of pudding sopping
Wet nothing like mud in spring
You songed and danced away away
until impress. Up to the level of core
Apple damnation nuclear reactor
Taking place up in substratum big
Atmosphere lazy man with a tune
Like the day, last time, you hated.

Stopped to read mighty death on toilet
Seat upright position landing gear
Of mother's station wagon lasting
Suicide night. All pit-stop necessary
Abomination of life defying feat in circus
Way away above simple teeth below.

Tea time black coffee marked colors
A row of watches stopped time telling
To be blind. Melon baller jig on feet
My feet feel, take dollar bills and save
You dime store nickel pots and pans
We silly buyers. Funny words, no thing
Talked about ever in time, in time.

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