Leopards prowl the studios of the Duc de great chateau Where Cocteau's beast Beauty's rape Lewis Carroll marks his diary with a white stone As Kuniyoshi Kaneko prepares to
Listen to the shells my darling, what you is not the sea But whispering, malicious human Adults who don't wish to know the Duc de Berry's great And hate the of childhood and of art
We who paint or photograph to stop your dying in its And fix you in the of spring Can't stop the prattlers The who, rattling, see ugliness in every living thing See ugliness in every thing
The calculated of little girls in sailor suits Whose faces seem to say more than they Appetites and ornaments for the in all of us From the cabinet of Kuniyoshi
Follow to the studio where Liddell plays the roles Of naked gypsy girls The Reverend Charles L. from the darkness of his camera her for himself and for the world
Children torn by cruel desires, the handiwork of Who hack their little to the bone live to tell the tale, astonishingly fit and well They couple in the chateau
We who paint or photograph to stop dying in its path And fix you in the permanence of stop the prattlers prattling The rattlesnakes who, rattling, see in every living thing In every lovely thing
A glass is not a world A painted girl is not a In games there can be no forbidden In remain considerate, in art the Devil's advocate Why deny that has wings In life considerate, in art the Devil incarnate Why deny the siren it sings? In there must be no forbidden things
So watch the wall my darling the gentlemen go by And mark your diary with a small white hearts of marzipan and lacquer work from old Japan In the of Kuniyoshi Kaneko