Mark Sandman Square

[taratemima]

I cannot get along with women,
from my mother onward.
They either drift
or I explode.

From my mother onward,
I got the sense I was special,
but then the world must agree
or I explode.

I got the sense I was special
destined for glory or dirt.
But special also means singular,
alone on the stage.

Destined for glory or dirt,
striving for something to outlast us,
I think of a man dying in Italy
alone on the stage.