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