There was one thing I found that I couldn't help thinking As they pried me Free with the jaws of life None of this dis- Aster would ever have happened If I had not Been driving my neighbor's wife To the Alta Loma Day's Inn Where I'd registered us as A couple with a name I'm sure Some other couple somewhere has And the last thing
I saw before falling unconscious Was your right hand Tracing a heart on my thigh And I thought "My God, what an infantile gesture," And I thought "My God, what An indescribable high." The autumn air was sweeter Than a slice of wedding cake As I overshot the exit And I tried and failed to find the brake...