I can't write a song
With Vic Chestnutt gone, no
The sun won't stay down
Albert Ayler's drowned
Go screw God again
Richard Brautigan's gone
Let it trouble you
D.F.W.'s done gad gone
Donny Hathaway
Margaux Hemingway
Stole themselves away
Walter Benjamin
s**ing down morphine
Nikki Bacharach
In a plastic bag
Phil Loeb never rose
From his overdose
One shot to the head
k**ed George Eastman dead
Picture it
Mary Margaret Ray
And then Spalding Gray
Stole themselves away
Breece D'J Pancake
Never will awake
Darkness before noon
Filled Arthur Koestler's room
Are these choruses
Diane Arbus's?
I can't write a song
With Vic Chestnutt gone
Way long gone
With no note of disgrace
The late great Johnny Ace
Stole himself away