Encourage me again to keep drinking, br To take the interstating highway up past cloud br Cover, br Where the wind is cutting pure dreams, br And all of this unhealthy resin I’m still squeezing br Out of high school: br Now, without having to say anything, my lips are br Exhausted, and cars are learning how to fly into br Other states, br And nobody understands me but the sad flowers br Bundled together like tinseled fgs br So high up even the skyscrapers feel like children: br And where is Diana now, br Keeping what harem in this kind of night: br Can she feel me bedecking her, the first great poet of br This next depression: br Can she feel me doing my thing in bed next door br To my parents, carrying her flag of obnoxious colors: br Imaging her perfumes matriculating out of that br Lunch wagon, that she had been married once br In Columbia, br That she has a young daughter with the same Cherokee br Hair br Who knows nothing but the leaking faucets of laughter br In a world cartoons; br And I want to give the little darling a rose to give to br Her mother, while the wind blows the sky blue, br And I am so glad I didn’t have to stay in Missouri.