Monday, August 16, 2004

1305

I WILL TELL YOU WHAT

Hit songs a year later,
I don't need to keep my distance anymore

Toy steamroller
Toy Vespa
Toy miniCooper, toy woodie wagon with a surfboard on top

Scalpel
Forceps
Suction
Ratchet

One day at a time, or maybe two

Won't wear velvet since she found out where it comes from
No more cruelty to plants, she only reads
Other places' local news

He makes contact with the disapproval machine
At ever greater intervals

It gets darker
So I haul out the polish and cloth
Frequent reports disrupt the ennui
With simple common sense

I roll the piano out to the balcony
And bang out chords for the seagulls