This pond is frozen.
Are the fish asleep below
Or are they just bored?

Trash floats in Ganges
Sacred river polluted
Still they flock to it.

Too many people
Crowd the face of this planet
Let's kill four billion.

Flow, you rivers flow
Let the water wash us clean.
The river goes on.

I'm ever dreaming.
I dream the fantastical.
I'm never waking.

You resemble death.
Your dark halo brings on doom.
You're the devil's pet.

Taste the sagelike smoke
Let it lick your lungs and mind
Puff enlightenment.

Bathe me in poppy
Let the scent of opium
Lift us forever.

Eight days, my plane leaves.
Eight days and I'm homeward bound.
Eight days more in hell.