dexterity, and speed
O stranger in our city
Don’t worry about your money
We have higher aims
First we take your focus, then your goals
We take your hope and love and self-control
We take your hope
And love and self-
Control
We steal your smile
We steal your joy
We steal your rectilinear cape
And leave you with just a length of hanging rope
We are the pickpockets of eternity
We are the pickpockets of eternity
We are the pickpockets of eternity
We are the pickpockets of eternity
HOTEL CURTAINS
Hide the world or hide from it
Hotel curtains
Sliding on a simple wooden pole
Hotel curtains
Birchbark-textured golden green with no ruffles
Dogged sentinels of the life just passing by
They wait in silent, permanent indifference
Hotel curtains don’t investigate, reveal, or show
They cover, smother, bury you in such supple arms
But they tremble
If you touch them just right
Hotel curtains, shelter me
Wrap me up in ecstasy
Block the light, hide the day
Muffle sound…let me
Gently down
Hotel curtains
Hotel curtains have no problems
Just too many people’s useless memories
Discreet, demure, and passive to a fault
They’d sooner fall than pass a rumor or slander
And yet their greatest nightmare is being torn
To shreds, hanging like soft skeletons
Hanging like dishonored flags
Dress shirts reduced to rags
Hotel curtains, shelter me
Save my life from infamy
Block the light, hide the day
Muffle sound…let me
Gently down
Hotel curtains
Hotel curtains, shelter me
Shield me from the world I flee
Block the light, hide the day
Muffle sound…let me
Gently down
Hotel curtains, what did you hide me from? Sorrows, pleasures, boredoms, crimes
Mediocrities, pretensions, lies
Stupidities, achievements, ploys
Peccadillos, sins, and joys
Hotel curtains, hotel curtains, hotel curtains
04/24/2024
