What happened to you, Johnny,
and your beautiful bravery?
You used to carry switchblades galore.
Now, you dream of ponies
and you're just limping back home.
Aw, gee, you'll never see your novia no more.
Well, I was in the hallway
when your angel started coughing.
I saw the flurry of hooves
run around your head, around your body.
You were dead, yeah,
and I knew it 'cause you no longer grooved,
and you never stopped dancing before.
Not even on the prison floor.
Not even when you rode into the sun
looking for someone
who wouldn't know your name
or your claim to fame:
Johnny G. Cole,
the Fastest Man to Ever Walk
so Slow.
What happened to you, Gloria?
I heard you changed your name to Anna.
Now, you cannot make up your mind.
You changed it back so many times.
What will I say when you do die?
"I knew her, but not very well.
Her sins belong to no one, now.
She had so many, anyhow,
how could they ever be bequeathed?
I once saw her light a fuse
on every letter that she knew,
shoot them to the sky,
and stand underneath.
They fell back down like acid rain,
the cinders spelling out her name --
a portmanteau of identities
that she seized:
G-L-O-R-I-A-N-N-A,
G-L-O-R-I-A-N-N-A,
G-L-O-R-I-A-N-N-A-A-A-A."
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