Berkeley

Let us begin

By the bay waters

Berkeley's daughters

Called me to be an Aquarian child

I was the crazed model

For somebody's novel

Bought from the bookstore where hell was on trial

And there we unraveled

And dutifully traveled

Out of our minds

There we were out of our minds

There going out of our minds

To find something better

The old world was fading

The canvas was waiting

Pale eucalyptus and lavender light

Recorded the mayhem

Talked with our brethren

They yelled at the sun

And they wandered at night

And everything mattered

All blissed out and tattered

And out of their minds

Oh, they were out of their minds

Oh, floating out of their minds

To find something better

I met you there later

A candlelit seder

Holy polemics we thought were long gone

And Berkeley still pagan

Still angry at Reagan

Brought us to bed by the luminous dawn

Our souls and our secrets

Promised to keep us

Out of all time

There in a place out of time

There and whatever we'd find

We'd find it together

Those indelible places

We only see traces

Dubiousaurus of purple and green

And now it's commuters

With silver computers

Fed into trains bound for Moloch's machine

I still have my moments

My signs and my omens

Holding my faith there like rain in a cloud

Her up from the ruins

Some kind of union

Has us remembering and laughing out loud

By the blue water

I was the daughter

Heart of the world with the mind of a child

And we'd find it together