Some a them poets
and authors were crazy I hear
Chaucer was accused of rape
(Shakespeare of being queer)

Hunter S. Thompson waived guns in
a lotta faces
(but the only one he ever blew off was his
own)

Then you got Kesey hangin out with the Frisco Angels
(when they was the only angels)
and Ginsburg taking his clothes off and starving in
India (starving everywhere)

And Kerouac drinking right into his early grave
(lived with his mother all the while)
and Plath and Sexton
took themselves out
( an oven and a car respectively)

Cervantes must have been mad
after the wars and the piracy
and the prisons and the slavery
(must have been madder than old Sancho and Quixote
themselves)

Then you got the preachers on the corner
and the brown bottle bums and the psychos
in the park
(eyes glazed with a thousand yard stare
spewing maniacal ramblings to no one

Them is some of the best poets ain't nobody
ever heard of)