Alligator’s Lament
Ramsay Midwood

I’ve seen the doors of heaven swing wide open and the palace
of numinous nothing spread out before me…

said I’m disturbed by wine… my secret lives unlived
…compassion for those near, which is further than you
think…tormented by time and ordained by the good deed…
it’s never what you want but it’s always what you need

and the Alabama moon Lord she shines so bright but it’s the
shadow of her poison that gets you through the night and the
smell of her science hangs like a smog and I seen ringtail
doves mob a blind dog

said I’m disturbed by wine my secret lives unlived
compassion for those near, which is further than you
think…tormented by time and ordained by the good deed its
never what you want but its always what you need

and a whole string of monkeys hang from a tree.. slap a
gator in the mouth they won’t let that gator be and leaves on
the trees all giggle like bees and it’s the Alabama moon that
brings this blind dog to his knees

said I’m disturbed by wine…my secret lives unlived…
compassion for those near, which is further than you
think…tormented by time and ordained by the good deed it’s
never what you want but it’s always what you need