Andy Kaufman

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I'm no comedian

I have never told a joke

when I die I want you looking for me

no impostors, no mirrors, no smoke

nobody happy to see me

no joy; you better jump at ghosts

you better be sure, I better be ash

I'm no foreign man, I feel just as important

when I am laying with dogs, as I would be with trash

there's no song and dance, I am a portent

a wormhole in the warm earth, wet dirt deterrent 

merely a spec, with what grandeur in mind

indeed, to conceive the things I would design

I feel closest to dying when I'm laughing 

my lungs, the lines in my face, restrict me even expressions 

I feel farthest from the stage when I hear whooping and clapping

my past is all one melted blur of disgrace and transgressions

I feel decades beyond my own life away from home

and I would feel worlds away from you, even if I could feel your breath in the morning.