Kim Addonizio - Heraclitean lyrics

In goes the cafeteria worker in her hairnet In goes the philosophy teacher Explaining the theory of eternal Return, and Anton Stadler with his clarinet Still owing money to Mozart. In Goes Mozart. Everyone flopped into the creel Of the happy fisherman, everyone eaten Every river is Lethean So why should we care If it's not the same river? I hate How everything changes, tree To failing term paper, chatelaine To beheaded plotter, drug dealer to narc The heart softening faster than cereal But then hardening to a relic Which turns into another line Of depressed poetry to recite To the next eager trainee Anxious to be more than lint Going up, you're also going down, so either Way, as your mother said, Be nice When she went in, she was very thin Earth, air, fire, water, mother Fish pulse slowly under the river ice