Yusef Komunyakaa - Looking a Mad Dog Dead in the Eyes lyrics

Perception can force you to crawl On God's great damn stone floor & scrape your knees to the bone, in love with the smooth round a** of d**h. You've come to admire that never-miss sniper on the rooftops. The man who dances in circles has fistbeaten a dog to the ground. All the newsreel faces turn away from the woman hanging naked by her hair in a picture window, as a scarecrow drags across a yellow field. The young man with a nail in his foot is your son who believes he's Christ, telling his father what he wants to hear, using a thorn for toothpick