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