Fenceline

I've never fallen out of wonder
With the things that happened in my life
That they said can't happen in a life at all
But it's more remorse than wonder
Most days
And these common days
Have taken the place of the fine ones

You cannot go to the ball
But you look the way
That you always wanted

Now beast-animal found the stairs
No beast-animal to obey
They’ll have at any call for watchword
They’ll watch the safe
Such a safe diminishes its content

You cannot go to the ball
But you look the way that you always wanted
I'll go to shops and watch the tools
It's close-by where I'm allowed to walk

It's close-by where they've called me God
I can never hear it enough
But I do not expect to hear it on this side of the post
And I have no desire to
Their mouths are not for you

I've never fallen out of wonder
With the differences you get from one place to the next
But it's more remorse than wonder
That I can't be in the place I know to be the best