Gen Arts Festival - Culturama II
Wednesday, July 14^th, 1999 -  9pm
The Altman Building, NYC

starring Michael Cerveris, Stephen Trask, Cory
Waletzko, Tristan Avakian, David McKinley and Ted Liscinski.


Hedwig's Lament

I was born on the other side

Of a town ripped in two.

And no matter how hard I tried,

I end up black and blue.

I rose from off of the doctor’s slab.

I lost a piece of my heart.

Now everyone gets to take a stab.

They cut me up into parts.

I gave a piece to my mother,

I gave a piece to my man,

I gave a piece to the rock star.

He took the good stuff and ran.


Exquisite Corpse
Oh God I'm all sewn up

A hardened razor cut

Scar map across my body


And you can trace the lines through misery's design

that map across my body

A montage ...all sewn up
A college ... all sewn up



A random pattern

With a needle and thread

The overlapping way diseases are spread

Through a tornado body

With a hand grenade head

And the legs are two lovers entwined





Inside I'm hollowed out

Outside a paper shroud

And all the rest's illusion



That there's a will and soul
That we can control
From that chaos and confusion
A Collage...all sewn up
A montage ... all sewn up

The Automatist's undoing

The whole world starts unscrewing

As time collapses and space warps

You see decay and ruin




I tell you, "No, no, no, no!

You make such an exquisite corpse"



I'm all sewn up

A hardened razor cut

Scar map across my body

And you can trace the lines through misery's design

that map across my body

A montage ...all sewn up

A college ... all sewn up

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