Gangster Arrangement

Now, this is a very strange thing you see,

That it is partly true

That the universe so far as its biological aspect is concerned

Is this weird system that lives by

Everybody eating everybody else

Only what we do to maintain what is called order and civilization

Is that various species make agreement

That they won't eat each other

They'll cooperate and so be an enormous gang

Which can beat down the others

So the human being is the most successful, so far,

Of this gangster arrangement

We are the most predatory monsters on Earth

And we have cooperated to assault the fish,

And the vegetables, and the chickens, and the cows,

And everything you see?

Only we do it by not letting our left hand know

What our right hand doeth. In other words, ladies and gentlemen,

Unless gentlemen happen to be prone to going hunting as a sport

They don't see their food killed

They don't see the slaughterhouse

And so what you get in the butcher, in the market is steak, you know?

It's a thing in its own right, it has nothing to do with a cow

Steak is a thing shaped thus and so,

It looks as if it might be like a banana or something like that,

You know and nobody worries

And when a fish is served up, it does indeed look like a fish,

But it's not the squigley and squirmy fish that comes out

On the end of a fisherman's line

You know, when you really fish you realize

That the fish doesn't like it very much

In this gangster arrangement

We are the most predatory monsters on Earth

So, let me repeat, so, so let me repeat

In this gangster arrangement

In this gangster arrangement

We are the most predatory monsters on Earth

So, let me repeat, so, so let me repeat

In this gangster arrangement

There is that absolutely extraordinary side of things

That is really terrifying, and so let me repeat (so, so let me repeat)

The illustration I used of the cross in the net

Where one side of it is scissors, that cut and eat, teeth that chew

And get this thing in and the opening side of

It is like James Joyce's Ulysses

The girl who says "yes" and I said "yes, yes, yes,"

She wants to be absolutely ravaged by her man, you see?

So, it's open, open, open

But now comes the if we take the dark view of things,

The horrible view, excuse me if I go into some rather grizzly details,

But have you ever heard of a vagina dentata?

That is the idea that in the sexual organ of the woman,

There are teeth

And a lot of men have this fantasy, and so are rendered impotent

They don't make love

Because they feel that the price of this blessed experience

This creative experience, loving experience, he's going to get cut

You're going to get emasculated

You're going to lose your precious member

In this gangster arrangement

We are the most predatory monsters on Earth

So, let me repeat, so, so let me repeat

In this gangster arrangement

In this gangster arrangement

We are the most predatory monsters on Earth

So, let me repeat, so, so let me repeat

In this gangster arrangement

This is a very ancient fantasy,

It appears throughout all known history

Because this is simply the woman's come on

Where she attracts but she's out really to get you

She is basically a spider mother you see

Who is selfish, and doesn't really love you

Not really, but says she does

And of course there are on the other side all

The tricks of the men, which we can go without mentioning