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The Alarm Six o'clock sunrise Sees its rays are leaking through Ten thousand legs entangled lie Asleep as quiet as the dead And the million lonely more Dream the same for them is true But the hundred children that are spawned tonight Are dreaming not just yet Hovering over the indigo sea... (the alarm goes off instead) Blinking eyes, again the dreaming dies In the morning comes the menstuating sun Eating eggs and drinking milk The tables have all been laid Standing up stiff, straight, strech, flex, The labor has almost begun But the impatient mechanics of the turning world Don't wait for the dawn behind the eye Slipping all the while into Mother Night's smile Spilling life between the red lips of this maid Lovers lay They're auto-mating Skin-thick away People in the making Lover's lay Like clockwork auto-mating Set the alarm, dear And the day-tape plays the same song as yesterday's Few dancers ever dance it in any different ways But (h)ours are the seconds and the minutes of the record And the rest is just a hole in the measure How pants the night, the black bitch but breathes And we harken to her breast like her litter But on their own beds young men turn at night Trading their dreams for fantasies And all of their joy for delight Suck the vision-laced milk as it drips from the stars While clock hands vulture-circle the ever-gesture Of give and take I have seen the sky And I have seen the earth Breathing our lives like water and light Our breeding eyes like wombs Spreading our arms as if they were legs Letting the world come inside And the long, hard day Pushes its way Into the moist, wide, open night Where glass and steel With soft ideal Are mating somewhere Out of sight Lovers lay They're auto-mating Skin-thick away People in the making Lover's lay Like clockwork auto-mating Set the alarm, dear