How can I help you today?
- It was clear to me
that answering that question
Was a way to change the friction.
I can sing an unhappy blues
Tripping over wires
Clumsily lose a shoe
Comfort you with awkward
Human gestures.
I could play music of dust,
Withdraw every record
For when the curtain falls
There is always a double black curtain
And no, I definitely don't feel like God.
No, up here you never get to sleep.
When the gates close,
I stay with my feeling,
you stay with yours.
I've been under the stage, too,
Delivered my idols to the lawn,
waited in the haze for the evening.
We knew the ritual of the concert,
the religious silence of the opera
the greatest shows put on
for the paying audience
in the front row.
What we didn't know
Was that we had no eyes,
just two headlights on
projecting warm light
wet on all the actors.
I love you.
-You will love the applause.
I love you.
-You will love the money.
I would feed everyone
if only I loved you
truly.
If I could please you
I would take off my clothes right away:
It's never cold in the spotlight
And there's no other way to dazzle them
Only to die
Without wrapping or script
As of stars
an implosion.
