Moondog Monologue

No matter where I came from I say

No matter where I go

To me what matters is where I am on this day

Let me identify myself now

Songsters both and both clad in brown

The hermit thrush and I dwell far off of town

Death when you come to me may you come to me swiftly

I would rather not linger

Not linger

Driving with Herr Doktor one day for the air

He recircled a square before he taught me how to square the very same circle

You are opportunists the worst way

Therefore I pray let it pay for you to know me

I do not dress as I do to attract attention

I attract attention because I dress as I do

You the vandal plunder the village as you will

The earthworm will pillage you the vandal when you are under

I would bow down before just one

One who bows before none

I should know who that one might be who could do that to me

I am that one

And I bow down before me

Since the hunter is the hunted surely he knows what it is to listen in ecstatic dread to some oncoming hunter's tread

Such and such is a star that filters through the starry blue alone

A burning star turning in an orbit all of it's own

Such and such is I

Beasts always were great trailblazing engineers

Modern engineering would do well to do as well today

As well as beasts have done

If on this rock I stand alone

Loneliness will turn heel as he turns to stone

Each today is yesterday's tomorrow which is now

Now is all I have now is all I need

Now is all I want

Now

Better I go when you would that I stay that I stay on

Than stay when you would that I would go

Better I go than stay

Ebb and flow of the ocean

Love and hate of emotion

Nothing lasts is my refrain

As the moon and my feelings wax and wane

I remain calm

If I was just everything until I fell then was just nothing

Then worming up pathways I found with pleasure

I was just something

Standing at the door of my departure I observed

That your eyes belie all that you have said

For you are still in love with me

Then when recognition comes

You will take my muse take her to his bed at ease

Have his will have his fill

And strangle her

My tiny butterfly butters my bread

My briny flutter-by keeps me well fed

Why should I mutter

Stung by this last rebuff I rebound

On the way back I hear me saying to myself

Dwell in your shell

One thing about life the It said

It feeds upon itself over and over

And of itself is fed

Should I love you as I love myself

Suppose I hate myself

I would be as free to hate you too

I am never quite educated never quite so

But I am ever in the painful process of becoming so

You remember me and my song

Only such immortality strikes creative sparks from my soul

Because of you

Who could wear out their welcome there

When there is no welcome there to wear out

There is where it is here on Earth

I would advise you not to generalize as a rule

A fool to thee I have just uttered a generalization

Ah me

Down is up and so up is down

Because the Earth is round

There is no such a thing as up or down

This one wish is ever so near to my heart

But oh so far away from my tongue

Sadness was so mixed with gladness that she wept for joy

She was so sad

Tear-filled eyes but enhanced the smile on her face

She was so glad

Think of all of the thoughts that I think

They are naught to me compared to just one fleeting thought of you

How could I fear for my last day

When I am dying daily

And have been since my first day

Thus the clown wore cap and gown

For she lived by degrees while she died by degrees

With a frown

Voices of spring were in chorus

Each voice was singing a song

I could not sing in that chorus until I wrote me a song

I wrote my song and joined the throng

Why besiege my liege still further

For my wooing is turning Your Majesty's royal head

And turning toward me

Though I climbed up the highest mountain in view

Yet content it was not mine

For beyond a mountain still higher was glooming

Now is that painful moment of parting we dreaded

Saying goodbye is plural indemnity truly

For having said hello