I have been scratching around in the dirt
I have been picking up butts
Finding high hopes under piles of detritus
Everyone thinks I’m nuts
I want a highway of ecstasy
That goes on for miles and miles
I want to go to sleep at night
With a permanent idiot smile
And jump out of bed throw open the blinds
And hear the bluebirds sing
I want everything
I have been scraping off barnacles
I have been splicing my lines
They say I’m crazy to put to sea
But I think I’m doing fine
I want to go where the mangoes grow
And fall from the trees at my feet
I’ll have hut where the coconut tree
Guards my head while I sleep
I’ll jump out of bed and open my ears
And hear the bluebirds sing
I want everything
