babbling, white shoes babbling, red shoes' obsessive
lips gabbing musical
chairs without boundaries somehow corralled
you'll learn your station in life o la
o la jouissance c'est toute
with a crutch lurching o la la plaisir d'amour
where nothing's possible o its
FAO Schwartz' o untimely death
hurdy-gurdy which wheezes
children children forbidding as an escalator surging
& next wheezes something frightening e.g.
The Skater's Waltz as if ice
castles solved everything & the Ice Queen's
laugh chilled sex right out of existence: O Isolde
your button nose your button mouth your button
eyeballs o dollface
it's hard to remember I was only five & the drive-in
ate faces
the station's closed
For al be that I knowe nat Love in dede
what I remember is we won't hear Easter Parade again
Anger more anger & the hurdy-gurdy grinding
You'd better stay out of the woods tonight o
la Tristesse brown shoes with bad intent
with bony kneecaps on top, of course I got punished
you're not my mother o la
la plume de ma tante clop-clop
the hobby horse comes clopping
to Banbury Cross: let's get off at the next station
no one could read her writing
no one could read my writing, black shoes
babbling books o la
o la jouissance Isolde
like Rummy 500 played in bed there's never enough space
Once upon a time 1966 Pennsylvania Station I lost mother's
hand the escalator surged
that's when the troubles began
the escalator was starved for shoes, it snarled like a
hurdy-gurdy that's wheezing
Paper Doll & scissors gasping but what it meant to say was
Liebestod
Have you got the time
wind-up clock frowning on us
Am I stupid as a petunia is that a petunia
is that a pen o
la plume de ma tante
unreadable babbling lips
the doll speaks bye-bye love but what it meant to say was
by definition I have to believe in autumn
What choice does one have? lips' obsessive
gabbing shoes walking off by themselves
Le Petit Roman de Tristan Toystore, 2