Please, remember me
As in the dream
We had as rug-burned babies
Among the fallen trees
And fast asleep
Aside the lions and the ladies
That called you what you like
And even might
Give a gift for your behavior
A fleeting chance to see
A trapeze
Swing as high as any savior
But

The whores whooped and whistled to Arthur as they made there way down the street. Integral took his arm possessively. The women didn't seem to see her.

"Arthur, it's been so long!"

"Oh, Sir Hellsing, I've missed you in my bed!"

Integral stopped and turned to them.

"Back off!" she shouted. Her face became red as she screeched. "He's mine, so back it up!"

Arthur went to her and took her by her shoulders giving a simple, "Ladies."

"You mean Lions!" Integral shouted and spat at the women.

"You were once like them," Arthur said trying to calm his lady down.

"I was never like them."

Please, remember me
My misery
And how it lost me all I wanted
Those dogs that love the rain
And chasing trains
The colored birds above there running
In circles round the well
And where it spells
On the wall behind St. Peter's
So bright with cinder gray
And spray paint
'Who the hell can see forever?'
And

Arthur remembered when he stroked her hair as she laid next to him. The moonlight stretched over their nude bodies and shone on them. They shone so brightly in the moonlight that night. Integral nuzzled her lover carefully and smiled. She laughed at something that Arthur didn't quite grasp.

"What?" he had asked.

"We're going to be together forever," she whispered to him.

And he had laughed, asking: "Who the hell can see forever?"

Then, when she had passed he decided: No one.

Oh, Misery.

Please, remember me
Seldomly
In the car behind the carnival
My hand between your knees
You turn from me
And said 'The trapeze act was wonderful
But never meant to last'
The clown that passed
Saw me just come up with anger
When it filled with circus dogs
The parking lot
Had an element of danger
So

Integral stood next to a chap with far too much makeup on. He was a clown in the circus. Arthur approached as he slid a hand between her knee and she tried to look away without making a scene. He approached the clown as he spoke of the trapeze swinger being his friend. Arthur dropped the popcorn and hit the man so hard in the face that her fell backward into the tent, causing half of it to collapse. He took Integral's hand and pulled her away from the scene and to the car where he kissed her and whispered to her.


Please, remember me
Finally
And all my uphill clawing
My dear
But if I make
The pearly gates
Do my best to make a drawing
Of God and Lucifer
A boy and girl
An angel kissin' on a sinner
A monkey and a man
A marching band
All around the frightened trapeze swingers

Integral had spun on the lawn, her evening dress fanning up and around her. He belly protruding ever so slightly from the baby that she had been with for only a few months now.

"If it's a boy!" she shouted to Arthur, who sat on the lawn, his bow tie undone with a bottle of whiskey in his hand. "I'll name him Abraham!"

"That's not necessary," Arthur assured her with a smiled.

"No, I want to," she told him.

"And if it's a girl then?" Arthur asked and looked at her with a smile. She spun around again and laughed.

"It won't be!"