do you remember learning to tie your shoes?
astonishing! the loops you had to make the delicate 
adjustments the pulling-through tightening impossible! 
the things we learn! 
putting a bridle on a horse when he's head-shy 
getting your hands under a girl's sweater 
no wonder we are the crown of all that exists 
we can do anything how we climb chimneys 
how we put one foot on the gas one on the clutch 
and make the car go nothing too difficult nothing!

crutches artificial arms have you seen that? 
how they pick their cups up and use razors? amazing! 
and the wives shine it for them at night 
they're sleeping the wives take it out of the room 
and polish it with its own special rag 
it's late they hold it against their bellies 
the leather laces dangle into their laps 
the mechanisms slip noiselessly 
lowering the hook softly onto their breasts 
we men! aren't we something? I mean 
we are worth thinking about aren't we? 
we are the end we are the living end