Leopards prowl the studios of the Duc de Berry's great Where Cocteau's rehearses Beauty's rape Lewis Carroll marks his diary a small white stone As Kuniyoshi Kaneko to paint
Listen to the shells my darling, what you is not the sea But whispering, human hearts who don't 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 of spring stop the prattlers prattling The rattlesnakes who, rattling, see in every living thing See ugliness in every living
The calculated insolence of little girls in suits Whose faces seem to say than they know Appetites and ornaments for the in all of us From the cabinet of Kaneko
Follow to the studio where Alice plays the roles Of tousle-headed naked 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 hack little bodies to the bone live to tell the tale, astonishingly fit and well They couple in the fabulous
We who paint or to stop your dying in its path And fix you in the of spring Can't the prattlers prattling The rattlesnakes who, rattling, see ugliness in every thing In every lovely thing
A glass is not a world A painted is not a girl In there can be no forbidden things In life remain considerate, in art the Devil's Why deny that has wings In life remain considerate, in art the Devil Why deny the siren it sings? In games there be no forbidden things
So the wall my darling while the gentlemen go by And your diary with a small white stone Little hearts of marzipan and lacquer work old Japan In the cabinet of Kuniyoshi