Businessmen

JACK:
Businessmen deeply awake
Sleeping like spinning tops
Corner the smalltown mastoid market
Their uvulas hopping mad
Beneath boney earache profits
Punished by being kept alive
Sure of the past at last
Always a little sorry
About reality

JACK I (an issue forever):
Worshipping whatever they find
At their feet

Jack ii:
Suspicion bursting innocently

I & II:
Upon the guilty

'Jack's traveling band'

Are they looking for something
They can't find
Or are they looking for something
They haven't got?

'Phantom music'

Impatience's high patience
Politics nothing to look at
When someone is talking to you

Jack i:
Drifting into hypnosis -

Jack ii:
Outstaring the therapist to outstare -

I:
- Eyelids cataleptic -

II:
- The therapist or so it would seem -

I:
- Widely open and fixed -

II:
- Bodies so tired they can't come clean -

I:
- Raging pale with endurance -

II:
- All insurance a murder plot -

I:
- All the way to the hill

II:
- A goat not something easily got

I & II:
The sun deeper and deeper in debt
Exposing their rancidly calm minds
To moonlight