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The Good Gardener (Oh How He Fell)
Augie March

Here sits a once good gardener

Pale as a shadow of a doubt

Once a happy dweller of a garden good

Once a sleepy sinner, once cast out


To the sea where the crossy eyed maids

Murmur low do you see, do you see

Where the doubts cross his shadow

Drowned and amoral, I pollinate the coral


And reek of the deep

Where I've tended the water weed

I was once your good gardener

Sing to bring on spring


I know where your good grass grows

I know what your boyfriend knows

I was your good gardener


I saw twilight car waxers, corpulent dog walkers

Clean canny couples on the sunset strip

From a tower forty miles to the east of Augusta

Saw a plague on the Indian a'coming on a wind ship


You were in the garden when the wind swept up

And took the foul words from your mouth

Now you know what your sarcasm really really means

It's the tearing with your teeth of the flesh

From the bones of your brother


Kill the shrub to fertilize the flower

Did I hear you saying that the form doesn't matter

Well form into matter, the matter is forever

But only in a good garden


Black rock bound in the Brighton bowl

Where the seas of desolation roll

Where you're borne and borne and borne in again

To the pebble feather shore of forgotten friends


Think how you can't see the science

Without seeing first the self

But then nobody thinks

Of growing somebody else


And how the sun, hungry sun

Holds the withered, withered world

So why shouldn't I kiss

The beautiful girl?


When I was her good gardener

Sing of the summer sham

O, see them grow tall, see them in their rot

See them go to seed in the cemetery plot

I was your good gardener


Sing to bring on spring

O, ice of winter would crackle

And splinter with my love in everything

Ice of Winter would crackle

And splinter with my love in everything

I was your good gardener


The sea is stark and lovely

And it scares me to the point of rapture

I was your good gardener

Of some good stature


The sea is stark and lovely

And it scares me to the point of rapture

I was your good gardener

Now I can barely look at ya


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