Who died?

Our Akita

Evita

You make fun, yet I′m the one

Attempting to do some good

Or do you really want a neighborhood

Where people piss on your stoop every night?

Bohemia, Bohemia's a fallacy in your head

This is Calcutta, Bohemia is dead

Dearly beloved, we gather here to say our goodbyes (dies irae, dies illa)

Here she lies, no one knew her worth (kyrie eleison, yitgadal v′yitkadash)

The late great daughter of Mother Earth

On these nights, when we celebrate the birth

In that little town of Bethlehem

We raise our glass, you bet your ass to la vie bohème

La vie bohème

La vie bohème

La vie bohème

(La vie bohème) to days of inspiration, playing hookey

Making something out of nothing (la vie bohème)

The need to express, to communicate (la vie bohème)

To going against the grain, going insane (la vie bohème) going mad

(La vie bohème) to loving tension, no pension

To more than one dimension (la vie bohème), to starving for attention

Hating convention, hating pretension (la vie bohème)

Not to mention, of course, hating dear old mom and dad (la vie bohème)

(La vie bohème) to riding your bike midday past the three-piece suits

To fruits, to no absolutes (la vie bohème) to Absolut

To choice, to The Village Voice (la vie bohème) to any passing fad

To being an us for once instead of a them

La vie bohème

La vie bohème

Ahem

Hey, Mister, she's my sister

So, that's five miso soup, four seaweed salad, three soy burger dinner

Two tofu dog platter, and one pasta with meatless balls

Ew, it tastes the same

If you close your eyes

And 13 orders of fries, is that it here?

Wine and beer

To hand-crafted beers made in local breweries

To yoga, to yogurt, to rice, and beans, and cheese

To leather, to dildos, to curry vindaloo

To Huevos Rancheros, and Maya Angelou

Emotion, devotion, to causing a commotion

Creation, vacation, mucho masturbation

Compassion, to fashion, to passion when it′s new

To Sontag, to Sondheim, to anything taboo

Ginsberg, Dylan, Cunnigham, and Cage, Lenny Bruce

Langston Hughes (to the stage)

To Uta, to Buddha, Pablo Neruda, too

Why Dorothy and Toto went over the rainbow to blow off Auntie Em

La vie bohéme

Sisters?

We′re close

Brothers

Bisexuals, trisexuals, Homo sapiens, carcinogens, hallucinogens, men

Pee-wee Herman, German wine, turpentine, Gertrude Stein

Antoniotti, Bertolucci, Kurosawa, Carmina Burana

To apathy, to entropy, to empathy, ecstasy

Václav Havel, The Sex Pistols, 8BC

To no shame, never playing The Fame Game

To marijuana, to sodomy, it's between God and me

To S and M

Waiter, waiter, waiter, waiter (la vie bohème)

In honor of the death of Bohemia

An impromptu salon will commence immediately following dinner

Maureen Johnson, just back from her spectacular one-night engagement

At the 11th Street lot, will perform Native American tribal chants backwards

Through her vocoder while accompanying herself on the electric cello

Which she ain′t never studied

And Mark Cohen will preview his new documentary

About his inability to hold an erection on the high holy days

And Mimi Marquez, clad only in bubble wrap

Will perform her famous lawn-chair handcuff dance

To the sounds of iced tea being stirred

And Roger will attempt to write a bittersweet, evocative song

That doesn't remind us of Musetta′s Waltz

Angel Dumott Schunard will model the latest fall fashions from Paris

While accompanying herself on the ten-gallon plastic pickle tub

And Collins will recount his exploits as anarchist

Including the tale of the successful reprogramming of the MIT

Virtual reality equipment to self-destruct as it broadcasts the words

Actual Reality, Act Up, Fight AIDS

Excuse me, did I do something wrong?

I get invited then ignored all night long

I've been trying, I′m not lying

No one's perfect, I've got baggage

Life′s too short, babe, time is flying

I′m looking for baggage that goes with mine

I should tell you

I've got baggage too (should tell you)

Baggage (wine and beer)

AZT break

You?

Me

You?

Mimi

(To dance) no way to make a living, masochism, pain, perfection

Muscle spasms, chiropractors, short careers, eating disorders (film)

Adventure, tedium, no family, boring locations, dark rooms

Perfect faces, egos, money, Hollywood, and sleaze (music)

Food of love, emotion, mathematics, isolation

Rhythm, power, feeling, harmony, and heavy competition (anarchy)

Revolution, justice screaming for solutions

Forcing changes, risk and danger, making noise, and making pleas

To faggots, lezzies, dykes, cross-dressers too

To me, to me, to me, to you, and you, and you, you, and you

To people living with, living with, living with, not dying from disease

Let he among us without sin be the first to condemn

La vie bohème

La vie bohème

(La vie bohème) anyone out of the mainstream

(La vie bohème) is anyone in the mainstream

(La vie bohème) anyone alive with a sex drive (la vie bohème)

Tear down the wall, aren′t we all?

The opposite of war isn't peace, it′s creation (woo!)

La vie bohème

Viva la vie bohème!