Nothing
The Fugs
(1965. Tuli Kupferberg)

Monday: nothing,
Tuesday: nothing,
Wednesday and Thursday: nothing.
Friday, for a change: a little more nothing,
Saturday: once more nothing.

Sunday: nothing,
Monday: nothing,
Tuesday and Wednesday: nothing.
Thursday, for a change: a little more nothing,
Friday: once more nothing.

Montik: gornicht,
Dinstik: gornicht,
Midwoch an Donnerstik: gornicht.
Fritik, far a noveneh: gornicht pikveleh,
Shabas: nach a mool gornicht.

Lunes: nada,
Martes: nada,
Miercoles y Jueves: nada.
Viernes, por cambio: poco mas nada,
Sabado: otra vez nada.

January: nothing,
February: nothing,
March and April: nothing.
May and June: a lot more nothing,
Ju-uly: nothing.

'29: nothing,
'32: nothing,
'39: '45: nothing.
1965: a whole lot of nothing,
1966: nothing.

Reading: nothing,
Writing: nothing,
Even arithmetic: nothing.
Geopgraphy, philosopy, history, nothing,
Social anthropology (hakalakala): nothing.

Oh, "Village Voice": nothing,
"New Yorker": nothing,
"Sing Out" and "Folkways": nothing.
Harry Smith and Allen Ginsberg:
Nothing, nothing, nothing.

Poetry: nothing,
Music: nothing,
Painting and Dancing: nothing.
The world's great books: a great set of nothing,
Audy and Foudy: nothing.

Fucking: nothing,
Sucking: nothing,
flesh and sex: nothing.
Church and Times Square: a lot of nothing,
Nothing, nothing, nothing.

Stevenson: nothing,
Humphry: nothing,
Averell Harriman: nothing.
John Stuart Mill: nihil, nil.
Franklin Delano Nothing.

Karlos Marx: nothing,
Engels: nothing,
Bukunin and Krapotkin: nyothing.
Leon-a Trotsky: lots of nothing,
Stalin: less than nothing.

nothing! nothing! etc.
(lots & lots of nothing)
nothing! nothing! etc
(lots of it)
nothing!
(not a God damn thing)