Mouths ripped from the breasts of their mothers Slurping and sucking onto the teats of their lovers And impossibly rigid from the base of their source Plunging into another with flesh to enforce And telephone dialling, Russian numbers tapped in Fingers a-roaming for the next mound of skin With a females hind quarters raised up in the air Your god or whatever is to be found hiding there
Vast and Vanishing, the tower torn down Humanities mysteries spread all around Letters and symbols, like hexagrams flung The library of Babel on the tip of your tongue
"Why this?" you may ask on the day you are born Your mother behind you, how bloody, how torn As you're slapped till you shriek then slipped into clothes Then sent on your way, blackened eye, broken nose And what's to reflect in the white of your eyes? The flickering gentlemen mouth their goodbyes To repulse and to draw, by the lapels pulled in The walls geometric and painfully thin
Vast and Vanishing, the tower torn down Humanities mysteries spread all around And cards turning over, palms crossed with gold The library of Babel is bought and then sold
When even our gains don't exist anymore, Virtually worthless, a pixel breed whore And no scratches to worry or dust to acquire No static free cloth or insert to admire No more the hunting, the thrill of the chase Down the wire to you, must necessitate waste A full shelf is a memory, collections all gone Convenience she caught you, you fell all along
Vast and Vanishing, the tower torn down Humanities mysteries spread all around The child he sits empty, his hand throws his stones The library of Babel, his pleasures it owns