let's all scream naïve

let's all scream naïve
because broken down and lusty
here i sit, and do i do my best?
would you bare your breast to me?

let's all scream naïve
let's all beat the living piss
into and out of all of this: let's not stop
while it still breathes, we can condemn
the parts of me that would so freely do
these things to other
living human beings.

let's all break the bread and toast
i think i have the best and biggest,
brightest longest and the most.
let's all scream naïve and sly
let's begin this Talk Of I.

I (am beautiful and keen)
(a wonderful and sparkling clean
example of a great machine)
I (can stand against the strongest force)
(tie each limb by length of rope
to every compass point's best horse)
let's all scream naïve at me
and bribery and flattery

naïvete and jester grins.  just another
consequence i'll overlook,
i'll write the book,
i'll kiss the cook and here i sit
and
why is it

that they all want a piece of me
I (am beautiful and everything)
(the kind of guy you'd like to see
hanging underneath a tree)
(the king of wise and apathy
hording all so miserly, paranoia treasury)

beacon of broken down and lusty light
here i sit, do i do what's right?
would you blind my every sight?
would you heil my third reich?
would you sail through my seas?
tell me what you think of me

beautiful and perfectly the specimen
of human being, the wrought-from-dreams
kind of thing you can't afford but longingly
save up your every last penny
for the chance to shake my hand
suck me dry and blast me grandly.

sweet as motherfucking candy.

I (am love and) I (am pure)
(the wholly natural voyeur
of things that i deserve, i'm sure) so

let's all / let's all scream naïve
all bets off i think it seems plain to say
that every day you get to see my smiling face
malign/benign/and what a waste
let's all scream naïve at this

tongue in cheek double fist.