Everything flows in an endless stream
and if we close our eyes
like a vision or a dream we'll see this world in its myriade ways:
Everything flows and every single minute
brings a change to the earth and to everybody in it -
watch a million lives playing out their days. People at this very time
are making many things-that's
that's so:
But fools are in command. In the desert rockets point
towards the stars: in sleazy bars
someone's getting drunk and ugly:
On the city sidewalks hustlers
pick their prey: far away.
Bodies bake on surfing beaches. Tonight
today
feel it all going
on-all this moment's different strands of life:
Tonight
today
we're a part of it all though we're on our own and making love. Everything flows - Nixon's called a meeting:
There's a ma**ive demonstration
and some kids are getting beaten up
in time to make tomorrow's first editions:
Yeah
there's striptease shows while at Buckingham Palace
they're working out the seating plans for Jackie and Ona**is
and in Kalamazoo there's two boys fishing. People at this very time
are making many things-that's
that's so:
Speeches and sailing-boats and scenes while kids in faded jeans
sit cross-legged in the park: In a Roman night-club Carlo
stuffs his mouth
further south
Dino dines on left-out garbage:
In a jungle hospital
a mother sighs
baby cries
new arrival in the life-stream.