| 21. My Favorite - The Lesser Saints |
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At a seaside home for convalescence, I took his name in vain during piano lessons. Three nuns like shadows came and dragged me up the stairs, then...
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| 22. My Favorite - The Radiation |
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These voices have ruined my life. These voices have ruined my life. I'd tell you the whole story, but you wouldn't believe me if I did. Laying in the...
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| 23. My Favorite - Rescue Us |
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Rescue us! With our figureheads in cut-out bins, even punks need safety pins. Rescue us! Because I don't want to be a hero anymore. When I was a...
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| 24. My Favorite - L = P |
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Alone in your dorm trying to stay warm, you're scared of the words that you might write, if you stay in again tonight. Like all the saints and whores...
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| 25. My Favorite - The Black Cassette |
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We spent the summer in his room. We spent the summer in his gloom. Feverish and celibate, listening to the black cassette, listening to the black...
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| 26. My Favorite - James Dean (awaiting Ambulance) |
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There was a terrible crash. They found his still beating heart in the ash. He'd turned down a dark road, and was blinded by a dizzying flash. My boy,...
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| 27. My Favorite - Homeless Club Kids |
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When the dance floor's full all the kids look so beautiful. When the dance floor's full all the kids look indivisible. The disremembered stars of...
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| 28. My Favorite - White Roses For Blue Girls |
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White roses for blue girls. Grey days for the detectives. And all we want is for you girls to come home soon. On her bed she left a letter. Asked her...
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| 29. My Favorite - Working Class Jacket |
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Milk spills and mothers run away. Black shoes shine, flannel sheets are warm. She knows the price of Cheerios. He says, "It's just you and me now...
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| 30. My Favorite - Half There And Dancing |
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I'm not a saint, I'm not a soldier. I'm just a picture frame that could not hold her. But don't cry for me, Argentina. I tried to make a bride out of...
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