Accordians are smushing.
Is that what they do?
New Yorkers are sipping
as grey falls from blue.
The great minds are typing
With knuckle-haired hands,
And laptops a buzzing
Make maniacal plans.
Stilettos are clicking
On construction concrete.
Caffine hearts racing
Like late corporate feet.
The sailor song’s slowing,
A mind lulling knot.
The intellect’s pndering
His book’s novel plot.
And all the while wondering
What shrill notes would ring,
If these coffee consumers
Would stand up and sing.
In harmony not,
But strange tonal cries,
To free all our sickness,
Expelling the lies
That live in the beards of metropolis men
Creating white noise and beginning again
Breathe, breathe, breathe. We can leave.
Sending us back to the biblical times
We’d wear calous fingers
And create simpler rhymes
To no longer hunt lattes
But prime primal beasts
No more sipping solo
We’d share in our feasts
If only this center of cultural cats
Would tear town the light-bulbs
Abandon their flats
And crowding the streets of God’s concrete land
They’d stomp colored feet
And clap fragile hands
All the while wandering
What shrill notes would ring
If Manhattan madhatters
Would stand up and sing.
In harmony not,
But strange tonal cries,
To free all our insides,
expel all our lies
That live in the eyes of metrololis men
Creating white noise
And beginning again
Breathe, breathe, breathe. We can leave.
The rush-hour railcars
Could fly off the tracks,
And neck-tied young lemmings
feel sun ontheir backs.
The stodgy-eyed, stocking clad,
hard Wall Street dames
Would toss name-brand handbags
On into the flames,
As the rail-car all anxious
a-climbed to the sun,
The poor pinstriped passengers would cry,
“Oh what fun!”
For even if we do burn away in the sky,
At least I can say I have lived ‘fore I died.
If only these old sold souls
Would stand up and sing
My ears fill with joy
At the thought of this ring
In harmony not,
Bt strange tonal cries,
freeing our demons,
expelling our lies,
That live in the bones of these beautiful men,
Creating white noise and beginning again.
Breathe, breathe, breathe. Come with me.
Breathe, breathe, breathe. We can leave.
