I will return here one day and dig up my bones from the clay I buried nails and strings and hair and that old tooth I believe was a bear's I held my hand in the fire it burned me down to the wires blood suckers hide beneath my bed And black fumes of skin so gently bled I slept with a cat on my breast slowing my heart stealing my breath at sunrise the monkeys will fly and leave me with pennies in my eyes I will return here one day and dig up my bones from the clay I buried nails and string and hair and that old tooth I believe was a bear's at sunrise the monkeys will fly and leave me with pennies in my eyes