mary and i
had a long talk about the baby
she said that she'd seen an angel
or that maybe that had been in a dream
and that she and her old man
had been on the road a long time
she paused
maybe the times could have been better
she said that way we could have afforded
a better hotel and maybe the tax collector
would have been easier on us
she said she hoped the baby'd be a lawyer
from Thebes (1991)
