Poem #2
Status
Poem
Written By
Elliott Smith
Recording Sessions
N/A
Availability of Official Release
N/A
Lyrics
At the bottom of a pigpile
Person X sits
tangled up in trunks and limbs.
The room is so full of fucking opinion
that only the biggest people can move at all,
and when they do,
which is out of boredom or desperation,
some smallish little unfortunate gets pinched in the process
and gets hurt
and starts shrieking
and if anybody is bleeding
then they are immediately taken out
by two big gorillas who take them to the main chimp
who brow-beats them and decides to feed them fewer bananas.
If none of these treatments work to stop the bleeding then they are carted off to the zoo.
Otherwise we wait and sleep, and sleep and wait, and scream and wait, and scream again.
So welcome to the hospital you stupid animal.
First Known Live Performance
1997-09-07 (Knitting Factory, New York, NY, USA)
Audio
(taken from the live performance noted above)