The Minute / The Pendulum Swings to and Fro

Faces smeared with color powder
Is weeping for those neither for nor against god
Placed near the moth of hell:
Hysterie at La Salpetriere
The snake charmer of Charenton
And St. Simeon Farm
In soused talk of ascetic life:
The clocks choke in the middle of the night
I need my minute back
My beautiful minute
My precise sixty
I keep losing track of time
I need my minute back
My beautiful minute
My precise sixty
The pendulum swings to and fro