THEY'RE EVERYWHERE YOU GO hard times for the poets my friend our traces on the walls we circle around like dogs girls don't notice us at all their hair excites sorrow the road to eternity is long we cross it without a word and in silence hard times for the poets my friend the parts were handed out long ago and everyone goes his own way daddies drink and trip as they sing women avoid them crossing to the other side kids crowded together push them around they spit loudly and howl like beasts hard times for the poets my friend people are beginning to look like chickens their eyesight's bad and they go to sleep early and in the morning they scratch up dirt packed into a pile of tobacco their pockets soaked in the sweat of their palms they're everywhere you go boy they're everywhere you go