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There's Something At The Bottom Of The Black Pool
Augie March

There's something at the bottom

Of the black pool

I daren't dredge it up

Not while the weather's still cool

It's a feathered thing

Its origins are mixed and untrue


Once a straw-body, now a lamb-picker

Now a clove in a black brew

I think of the peacocks of the gorge

And I think of the gryphons they kept in the Tower Zoo

The unexpected water swept all before it

As it rushed on terrible through


And left them all dead and spread through the park

Amid the myriad mangles of the coming dark

Of the shadow of a loon, the howl from a bloody craw

Those strange interruptions don't scare me anymore


Since all the while the weather was cool

I stood at the crumbling edge of the black pool


Perhaps a pigeon fell off its stool

I have drowned a conscience or two

There are palm trees and clouds

And the under sides of drowned blues


And sometimes the faces of people I think I knew

I know at one time this thing flew

I have sunk an ambition or two

Now when I think to drink, then I wonder with who

I pretend that I'm sitting in the booth with you


O what a fucking sentence, what a fucking noise

I don't know these girls, I don't trust these boys

And over there in the corner, there hangs a strange bird

Sings a strange song but it won't be heard


A song to inquire whither went the milk money

While the darling babes of Toorak were a'yowling for their honey

Let's walk up this hill, let's go walking up this hill

The sun is in the middle of the sky

The grass is yellow from being dry


There's music, there's you, many others here and I

Up the hill then, up where those holy lodestones lie

How suddenly still, and though the wind blow

From here we will never leave or go


And but for a will and but for companions

We might go tumbling home below

To a place at the table, to gamble and settle

Make the words amiable and able


Of resting assured, in the breast of that bird

That I sure did not suffer a fool

Since all the while the weather was cool

I stood at the crumbling edge of the black pool


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