It is the bleak month of March Colder than most Yellow smoke comes out of the lower city Turns the corner as I look around for apple trees in bloom O'er by the streets the curtains hide stains Most of us are cannot bear to stare As we find love and loss together No matter the cost as is always hard to bear Love is the only innocence I fear How much I need to be loved! I've turned to money, ****** and mere crisis Should I push the moment to senility What more tools do I possess As we bunch our posessions and indecisions Soon we will have no choice but merely the tragedy of guilt Many can say goodbye with poignancy If the loss of hope is a short dance Let the flowers bloom before they wilt demurred Then of to dance with death is to find their rightful place ****** rosebuds gather while ye' may In the forests of nature's blossom Many people cannot let their fate weave As their end nears and hope will not relieve the troubled soul The fine things of life shall clear the clouds of doubts Life is celebrated as their mind plunders their false notions Window panes are shuttered and prisoners motion from inside My mind is cluttered as it reminds itself Don't get too clever or proud They claim fortune favors the first Because when the love's dead You can hear time's winged chariot hurry near So does the insipid illness of worry As we wait for hope and ask love to hurry You'll see that anger if you look close In my eyes of insidious intent Where civilization retreats in a lurid murmur As the music of my mind plays and dances I ask myself if I dare to be free If I profess my love and take chances Then my doubts follow And my observations and destiny wait At the crossroads to take a different step My misshapen head is full of thin hair The Ballad of The Thin Man plays As I tap on my thighs amidst banter They say bring his head on a platter It's no great matter to take the poison of indignation As the bitter matters settles with a smile and a tip of the hat If I resign myself to the muses of my mother And the dogma of my brother and sister makes me small 'Twixt my first novel is thrown from the shelves of the town hall Now my hat is worn out and so is my smile