Dancer In The Dark

Listen to the Mountains, child,
Listen to the Dawn
Listen to the Shoulders
The IMPOSSIBLES, the WON'TS
Listen to the NEVER HAVES
Then listen close to me—
Anything can happen, child,
ANYTHING can be.

Listen To The Mountains

The Googies Are Coming
The googies are coming, the old people say,
To buy little children and take them away.
Fifty cents for fat ones,
Twenty cents for lean ones,
Fifteen cents for dirty ones,
Thirty cents for clean ones,
A nickel each for mean ones.
The googies are coming, and maybe tonight,
To buy little children and lock them up tight.
Eight cents for husky ones,
Quarter for the weak ones,
Penny each for noisy ones,
A dollar for the meek ones.
Forty cents for happy ones.
Eleven cents for sad ones.
And, kiddies, when they come to buy,
It won't do any good to cry.
But---just between yourself and I---
They never buy the bad ones!

The Googies

Columbus said the world is round?

Don't you believe a word of that.

For I've been down to the edge of the world,

Sat on the edge where the wild wind whirled,

Peeked over the ledge where the blue smoke curls,

And I can tell you, all the boys and girls,

The world is FLAT!

The Edge Of The World

There is a place where the sidewalk ends
and before the street begins,
and there the grass grows soft and white,
and there the sun burns crimson bright,
and there the moon-bird rests from his flight
to cool in the peppermint wind.

Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black
and the dark street winds and bends.
Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow
we shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow
and watch where the chalk-white arrows go
to the place where the sidewalk ends.

Yes we'll walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
and we'll go where the chalk-white arrows go,
for the children, they mark, and the children, they know,
the place where the sidewalk ends.

Rama Gerami

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