Erica Jong - Fracture lyrics

This constant ache is my leg's message to me. 'Hello. Hello. Hello. You're getting there,' it says, 'step by step.' Legs aren't stars which sputter out & go on gleaming anyway. I've lived, of course, with phantom limbs but this fracture doesn't point to amputation. No. It hisses at something much more final. Skin lantern, necklace of teeth, the bones & sinews are in revolt against us. We keep them down with little bribes: vitamins, penicillin, & now these pounds of plaster, but they will bury us, good Bolsheviks, & know it. So they've got time to bide. Meanwhile: spread-eagle on these crutches, a cripple s**ing the ground with rubber nipples, or else a knight, up to my a** in armor, I limp & swing my way across the street & up the steps, moving, here & now, step by step, towards the future, that incurable fracture.