These Riffs I Have Shored Against My Ruin

for David Connor Jones

Outside that rococo room 

in the Waste Land

where in sad light 

a carvéd dolphin swam

the cock crew

                                     co co rico

                                     co co rico

While beneath the laqueraria,

you and I cut the rug  –  jug jug –

u and i

                        travel to the beat of     

Oed’ und leer das meer

                                                            But

O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag

It’s so elegant

It’s so intelligent

Twit twit twit

Jug jug jug jug jug jug

Weialala leia

                                Wallala leialala

Drip 

            drop 

                        drip

                                    drop 

                                                drop

                                                drop                             

                                                drop