Pa**ed out anew You woke up in a waiting room Full of blurry magazines You tried to focus and read But you were excited to meet your maker The room slowly emptied of blurry blank faces Until you at last heard them call out your name But when they showed you in you didn't meet your maker Just a group like you Holding short straws And then the office fell into the hold of a galley boat Where a black sandman flicked on a brick while you rowed His "click click" ticked on with no talk to the beak of a feeding chicken Who was pecking out a beat with his beak on the bottom of his cage at a pace you were sticking to
Until through storms of feathers You arrived at a coast on the edge of night Where with his one remaining flame the black man took your oars And set them on fire And left you there with your makeshift torches Saying "wait just a little more And soon you will see your maker In the flickering lights" But after some time Your torches died And it was pitch, coal, tar black So when the So when the white mask, white mask, white mask came at last It was out of sight