Once, I was lazy, but now I’m tired
Once, I was lost, but now I’m not going anywhere
Once, I was blind, but now I don’t want to see
Once, I was hungry, but now I can’t taste
Once, I was sick, but now I like the feeling of the medicine
Once, I fell down, but now I don’t want to get up
Once, I was lonely, but now I’m alone
Once, I was alive, but now I am not yet dead
Some versions contain the following four lines, just before the final line of the poem; they were scribblings on the original manuscript and were not intended to be part of the poem:
Oberfunken Grubenhumpen Pussenlinken
Conkrinsunken
Roger got genital warts from a gay toad
And his mother is a German-Irish whore from Budapest