maria-she's mexican-but she's american as Howling Wolf -"my worried mind, it annoys me! i cant take my rest! i'm disgusting!" says her brother, who sneaks across the border & gets drunk on skinny whores & Turkish gas-"maria needs a shot" says King Villager "she needs a shot of a very bored God"-the rest of the villagers sing a song that sounds like "oh the days of forty-nine" in a Welsh accent & Adlai Stevenson starting a riot on the mountaintop ...maria once nailed coffins for a living-"i will bust a plateglass window over Adlai Stevenson's head! " says her brother very drunk on Turkish gas "i will prove to him that he too is a masochist-i shall make him bend like a woman & wish he was on a freight train to Frisco"-a marine with his finger nibbled-josephine-whose grandfather died at Shiloh stabbed maria once & hid her clothes-she was arrested on an incest charge ...King Villager, who is slowly dying of cancer, polishes his noisy beard now & mutters "cops progress-american monuments" & "nothing matters" maria has made love with a beggar recently-he was disguised in flamboyant tinfoil-they made it in ' a saddlebag-she can run a mile in 5 days point 9 & the traveling roadshow that comes thru the town once a year respects her for it ...maria's father lays dead on the hill-rich pimps-human it & civilization walk over his grave to show her that the mean business... she is not going on any goodwill tours this year-there is a false eyelash in her transmission..... there is not many places she can taste
this is my last letter-I've tried to please you, but i see now that you have too much on your mind-what you need is someone to flatter you-i would do that, but what would be the worth? after all, i need nothing from you-you are so much tied up in, though, that you have turned into a piece of hunger-while the mystics of the world jump in the sun, you have turned into a lampshade-if you're going to think, dont think about why people dont love each other-think about why they dont love themselves maybe then, you will begin to love them-if you have something to say, let me know, i'm just around the corner, located by the flight controls-take it easy & dont scratch too much-watch the green peppers & i think you've had enough popcorn-you're turning into an addict as i said, there's simply nothing i can give you excpt a simply-there is nothing i can take from you excpt a guilty conscience-i cant give nor take any habit... see you at the masquerade ball tormented water boy