Now Don is like the bones in a watermelon Or the seeds in a fish and you can see him Through the blue smoke of a tramps fire Is he still in #1129 at the Davenport hotel In Silo, Missouri? No… You see my friend, you Will not find him there. He came from the clay And he has gone back…
Don Van Vliet (Tom Waits)
Tomorrow, six years will have elapsed since Don Van Vliet went back to the clay…