letra de running through / chinese poem song - warren zevon
o i today
sad as chu yuan
stumbled to the store
in broiling florida october
morning heat cursing
for my wine, sweating
like rain, & came to my chair
weak & trembling
wondering if i’m crazy at last
– o chu yuan! no!
no suicide! wine please wine!
what shall we all do
all knowing we’re dying
without wine to guide us
to winking at death
& life too —
my heart belongs
to chinese poets
& their scrolls
we can’t just die
–men need wine
& poetry
at least
o mao, poet mao
not boss mao
here in america
wine is laughed at
& poetry a joke
–death’s a grim reminder
to everybody already dead
crashing in cars all around here-
here men & women dryly scowl
at poets’ sad attempts
to make our lot
lesser-
i, a poet, suffer
even for bugs
i find upsidedown
dying in the gr-ss-
so i drink wine
alone-
i shudder to think
how dead
the astronauts
are
going to a dead
moon
of no wine
all our best men
are laughed at
in this nightmare land
but the newspapers preen
in virtue-throughout
the world the left & right
the east & west, are both vicious-
the happy old winebibber is gone-
i want him to reappear-
for modern china preens
in virtue too
for no better reason
than america-
n0body has respect for the cat
asleep, and i am hopelessly
inadequate in this poem
-n0body has respect
for the self centered
irresponsible wine invalid
-everybody wants to be strapped
in a hopeless sp-ce suit
where they can’t move
-i urge you, china
go back
to li po &
tao yuan ming
what am i talking about?
i don’t know
i’m sick today-
i didn’t sleep all night
walked stumbling in the field
to get wine, now i’m drinking it
i feel better and worse-
i have something to say to mao
& the poets of china
that won’t come out-
it’s all about how america
ignored poetry & wine
& so does china
& i’m a fool
without a river & a boat
& a flower suit-
without a wineshop at dawn
-without self respect-
–
-without the truth-
but i’m a better man
than all of you-
that’s what i
wanted to say
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