on location / no animals were harmed

 

no more shooting

on location

darling

i'm too old for

gallivanting

around your world

 

dust off old paint   // cliche horse's name and real paint

there's authenticity // the real thing

right here

 

 

for my latest/final/ultimate production

i'll film on the back lot

an epic about my time in the world

 

we'll drive an automobile

with no wheels but

you'll see white walls

a car they don't make anymore

we'll crank the scenery

by on rollers

we'll project the street scene

on a rear screen

 

head out to the aerodrome

catch us an aeroplane

fly till the fuel gauge

sinks to zero

fly till the engines

jerk and judder

propellers stutter

count our parachutes

and realize

somebody

has to go

down

 

don't look now,

there's a stranger

under the streetlight,

reading a paper,

incognito, and

somehow it's midnight

1941 // 1951. 1961, 1971

 

calendar pages

blow off, blow away

in the whirlwind

 

somehow it's midnight

and i've got a knife in my back

 

let's shoot this one

on the back lot

shoot this one

in the back

 

 

let's put on a show, shall we?

you steal

your mother's pills

your mother's pearls

i know a derelict warehouse

and i have asbestos snow // rhyme with show

strap in your tits

and your bits,

boys and girls

cause we're

putting on a

holiday show // christmas/easter/pageant

 

just remember

just remember

 

when it's finished

i want to be able to say

no animals were harmed

and hardly any people