A small blue hush across the Old West
Tracks load down into dirt track
where wild eyed poets scream and laugh
of the darkness the love to dance in.
Fragmented pigeons ignore give way
signs to reach their third heaven
lines of human traffic run along
pads polite as downhill penguins
keeping heads bowed away from connecting eyes
> THE MELODY I KNEW BUT DIDN’T CATCH THE WORDS
> SHARE MY THOUGHTS SIDE BY SIDE
Ladies at the tomb.
In the underground ballroom
with the sounds of Girls Aloud
In my quiet corner
I knew the words but had forgotten the Waltz
Crooning, rolling, chirping,
Music pervading every avenue of life
The Stazi arrested Orpheus and his lyre
and empty busking hat were seized
down in the underpass
