Delirium Tremens

And since you ask me I will tell you
that I know what it is to be
fourteen years old and dead,
sea wolf
anchored in the city,
tired of forgetting
a woman in every port.
Impudent animal without pedigree,
addicted to the elixir
from the heart of the bottle,
misogynistic apprentice seducer
who sings rock and roll
to demand from the stars:
eyes that learn to see,
lips that burn,
wise ones that teach to kiss,
delirium tremens.
Children of necessity,
rain of semen,
abuse me out of charity,
delirium tremens.
And since you insist let me add
that I know what it is to sleep
naked, in jail and handcuffed,
in the open air of the crowd
nailed to a cross
with a thief on each side,
traveling from never to who knows where,
like an Indiana Jones
through the suburbs of the moon,
janitor of the Tower of Babel
brothel rhapsodist
searching in all and in none
eyes that learn to see,
lips that burn,
wise ones that teach to kiss,
delirium tremens.
Abuse me out of charity,
rain of semen,
where else will you find
Delirium tremens?
Cobwebs on the clothes,
tigers on the balcony,
scorpions in the mouth,
fear in the heart.
Damn you, Satan,
take off the mask,
we don't fit in
that mirror together.
eyes that learn to see,
lips that burn,
children of necessity
delirium tremens.
Wise ones that teach to kiss,
rain of semen,
where else will you find
delirium tremens?
Delirium tremens.
I know all the stories now,
I rejected the sacraments,
I renounced Old Bob.
I wandered through hundreds of cities,
they know me in the bars,
but they don't know who I am.
There is a palace in hell
built on fire
where the king reigns
of those who fear.
A child falls rolling
down the stairs
of delirium tremens.
One two tremens
delirium tremens.