About Three Dreams

Time slows, I doze
In a bath of cream and ink
A vacant girl smiles
And all around her toys move

The water's crazy blue
The water's crazy blue

Above, nine doves
Water her with sleep
There's a stripping child show
And from the ceiling thumbs snow

The sky is crazy blue
The sky is crazy blue

Croquet-Sunday
And all the balls I sink
Are really sunsets
So all around me night flies

The stars are crazy blue
The stars are crazy blue

Dreams mean my brain's on break
It takes my day and starts to say a fable
A no rules game, rearrange reigns
Takes my whims and swims circles 'round sense

Cockroaches climb the clocks and the cuckoos are all Jewish
We're naked except for the plaid patch you're stitching into my groin
"Don't stop me," you say
"This is something I've been needing to do for a long time"
"All right," I reply
But then I'm kissing you in a long blue boat
It's a plastic yacht with Chicanos on deck
They bail the jellyfish from the boat and then drink it
"It's the only way to keep them from stinging the tourists," one man says
The air is icy-cold, but we are happy, we are getting married
Now it's the desert at dusk
The sky is blue chrome
I pick one sequin from your dress and then kiss it
I put the sequin into the sky
"That's my star," I say
My star I say, my star I say
Cowboy, I'm your

And I'm your
Cowboy, I'm your
Cowboy, I'm your
Cowboy, I'm your
Cowboy, I'm your
Cowboy, I'm your
Cowboy, I'm your
Cowboy, I'm your
Cowboy, I'm your
Cowboy

In class I pass
(A note [?])
I pass I pass
(And all the students sing to me)