And the peach has a pit and I know that too,
And I put it in along with everything
To make the grown-ups laugh whenever I sing:
And I sing:
It is true; It is untrue;
I know, I know, the true is untrue,
The peach has a pit, the pit has a peach:
And both may be wrong when I sing my song,
But I don't tell the grown-ups: because it
is
sad,
And I want them to laugh just like I do
Because they grew up and forgot what they knew
And they are sure I will forget it some day too.
They are wrong. When I sang my song, I knew, I knew!
I am red, I am gold, I am green, I am blue,
I will always be me, I will always be new!"
Delmore Schwartz
AMERICAN LIGHTS, SEEN OFF FROM ABROAD
Blue go up and blue go down
to light the lights of Dollartown
Nebuchadnezzar had it so good?
wink the lights of Hollywood
I never think, I have so many things,
flash the lights of Palm Springs
I worry like a madwoman over all the world,
affirm the lights, all night, at State
I have no plans, I mean well,
swear the lights of Georgetown
I have the blind staggers,
call the lights of Niagara
