Gasoline

Where I come from everyone knows me.

My name was chanted like a Buddhist mantra

when twenty three people were immolated.

They say God is in everything we see.

I see Molotov cocktails and machetes.

At night my parrot becomes the goddess of fighting cocks. She is a beauty! She moonlights as a prostitute

and sells crack on the inner-city streets.

Where I come from everyone knows me.

If it weren't for me, Irrawaddy dolphins would still be

in the Irrawaddy. Animosity is my currency.

I make friends with armadillos and fight for my desire.

I have the longest tongue on earth and drink from a creek on fire.

Every day I wake up inside a bull and reign over bulls.

I plant poppies in Shan State, I run casinos in Mandalay. I can't remember the poems I wrote.

Can't remember how many people I have set fire to.