Erica Jong - Unrequited lyrics

Parachuting down through clouds shaped like whales & sharks, dolphins & penguins, pelicans & gulls, we reach the purple hills of a green-hearted island ringed with volcanic rock bathed by cobalt waters reefed by whitest coral tenanted by sea urchins & sponge & visited by barracuda & tourists. The dictator of this island is the sun. The Secret Police is the sweet fragrance of cane. Frangipani grows in the uplands; the salt flats reek by the sea. I want to buy it, to hide here, to stay, to teach all the people to write, to orchestrate the stars in the palm trees & teach the jellyfish not to bite. Oh dark volcanic wine! Oh collapsed parachute filled with kisses! Oh blue-bottle bits ground into j**els by the sand! Whoever loves islands must love the sea, & the sea loves no one but herself.