Mattress (2:32)
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by: Beck Hansen



Give me a cold sore when you’re young

Get old fast when you sag in the sun

Put a coffin lid on everyone

So you can be depressed

Give it to me don’t give it to me

Give it to me don’t give it to me

Your idea maybe I’ll see ya

 



Maybe I will
Maybe I won’t





Your love
your kindness

Your body on the mattress...

The Mattress Grave

by 

Heinrich Heine 

Death, it is but the long, cool night, 

And Life's a dull and sultry day. 
It darkens; I grow drowsy; 

I am weary of the light. 

Over my bed a strange tree gleams 

And there a nightingale is loud. 

She sings of love, love only . . . 
I hear it, even in dreams. 

My Mouche, the other day as I lay here, 

Slightly propped up upon this mattress-grave...

2 p.m. beer

by Charles Bukowski

 

nothing matters
but flopping on a mattress

with cheap dreams and a beer

 

as the leaves die and the horses die

and the landladies stare in the halls;
brisk the music of pulled shades, 

 

a last man's cave
in an eternity of swarm
and explosion;

nothing but the dripping sink,
the empty bottle,
euphoria,

youth fenced in,
stabbed and shaven,

taught words
propped up
to die.

from Ulysses - III

by James Joyce

 What advantages were possessed by an occupied, as distinct from an unoccupied bed?

The removal of nocturnal solitude, the superior quality of human (mature female) to inhuman (hotwaterjar) calefaction,



...the stimulation of matutinal contact, the economy of mangling done on the premises in the case of trousers accurately folded and placed lengthwise between the spring mattress (striped) and the woollen mattress (biscuit section).

What past consecutive causes, before rising preapprehended, of accumulated fatigue did Bloom, before rising, silently recapitulate?




The preparation of breakfast (burnt offering): intestinal congestion and premeditative defecation (holy of holies):




...the bath (rite of John): the funeral (rite of Samuel): the advertisement of Alexander Keyes (Urim and Thummim): the unsubstantial lunch (rite of Melchisedek): the visit to museum and national library (holy place):



...the bookhunt along Bedford row, Merchants’ Arch, Wellington Quay (Simchath Torah): the music in the Ormond Hotel (Shira Shirim): the altercation with a truculent troglodyte in Bernard Kiernan’s premises (holocaust): a blank period of time including a cardrive, a visit to a house of mourning, a leavetaking (wilderness):

the eroticism produced by feminine exhibitionism (rite of Onan): the prolonged delivery of Mrs Mina Purefoy (heave offering):






the visit to the disorderly house of Mrs Bella Cohen, 82 Tyrone street, lower and subsequent brawl and chance medley in Beaver street (Armageddon)- nocturnal perambulation to and from the cabman’s shelter...

 

To Sleep...

O soft embalmer of the still midnight,
      Shutting, with careful fingers and benign,

 

 

 Our gloom-pleas'd eyes, embower'd from the light,
      Enshaded in forgetfulness divine:

 

 

O soothest Sleep! if so it please thee, close
      In midst of this thine hymn my willing eyes,

 

 

 Then save me, or the passed day will shine
Upon my pillow, breeding many woes,—

 

 

       Save me from curious Conscience, that still lords
Its strength for darkness, burrowing like a mole;

      Turn the key deftly in the oiled wards,
And seal the hushed Casket of my Soul.

—John Keats