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