Luyện nghe bài hát The Jeweller

Very slowly he his tea
Not his glance from the thick double
Spaced printing he with his jeweler's eye

in his corner
He passed onto the other of the room
A scrawled insularity of time and

For both passed him by the speed of light
Not unlike the of substance however varied
Into that lysergic entity known as the black

He was ugly for his time
And was certainly not lost on him
Drastic measures were for
And as in antiquity the man was blessed
wisdom to the point of desperation

But in his corner, developing around him
Like a sun was a of such rare beauty
sight and sound could no longer be considered
Sufficient for the senses

And he had to notice as his hearing failed
That mind and were in no way connected to one other
As if in the one could not propose and prove
Its erotic existence in of the other

"What does this mean?"
He enquired of the solemn hopefully
"Nothing for sir", came the reply
"Perhaps a cocktail, demitasse or a herbal
It helps the breathing you sometimes"
"The bill, if you don't mind", he shot back

And as the patter of the feet in the room
For he barely heard now, his eye slowly began to close
And by the time he emerged on the sunny
He was to rely entirely on the other eye for help

But happily it its many functions
Blinking for lubrication and registering images
It was hour in Hawaii only ten a.m.

So turning into his
He stopped at the drug and bought an eye patch
That soon the reluctant eye

Climbing the stairs he what to do next
He would call a and have tests made
Eat nourishing food and if necessary consent to
The last of the gambling man

And at one a.m. he awoke from a
And after fumbling his way in the light of his room
He peered into the rusty of his mirror
And lifted away the patch, what he saw him

once was tremulous tissue and membrane
Was now a and perfectly formed vagina with vulva
Overgrown and mysterious, unrevealing and still to the eye

But in the deep dark of that sticky occlusion
Lay the unclosing eye of disgust in its closing moments
Lunging and hungry for the cold light of days