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The Good Gardener---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 windship

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 fertilise 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