there is a road that meets the road that goes to my house and how it green grows there and we've got special boots to beat the path to my house and it's careful and it's careful when i'm there and i say your uncle wa.. Read »

In the Kingdom of Spain There are such colours They defy any name Like drab and dullard But oh the King and the Queen of Spain With their long unpronnouncable names Grace the table at the long lost Kingdom of Spai.. Read »

my name is leslie ann levine my mother birthed me down a dry revine my mother birthed me far too soon born at nine and dead at noon fifteen years gone now i still wander this parapet and shake my rattle bone fifteen .. Read »

There is a city by the sea A gentle company I don't suppose you want to And as it tells its sorry tale In harrowing detail Its hollowness will haunt you Its streets and boulevards Orphans and oligarchs it hears A plai.. Read »

My mother was a Chinese trapeze artist In pre-war Paris Smuggling bombs for the underground. And she met my father At a fete in Aix-en-Provence. He was disguised as a Russian cadet in the employ of the Axis. And there .. Read »

You belong to the gang And you say you can't break away But I'm here with my hands on my heart Our families can't agree I'm your brother's sworn enemy But I'll shout out my love to the stars So wait for the stone on your wi.. Read »

But oh, if I could only get you oceanside, to lay your muscles wide, it'd be heavenly. And oh, if I could only coax you overboard, to leave these lolling shores, to get you oceanside. Oceanside. At rising tide, you're loo.. Read »

they've come to find you odalisque as the light dies horribly on a fire escape you walk all rare and resolved to drop and when they find you odalisque they will rend you terribly stitch from stitch til all your linen.. Read »

There are angels in your angles There's a low moon caught in your tangles There's a ticking at the sill There's a purr of a pigeon to break the still of day As on we go drowning Down we go away And darling, we go a-drowning .. Read »

In matching blue raincoats, Our shoes were our show boats We kicked around. From stairway to station We made a sensation With the gadabout crowd. And oh, what a bargain, We're two easy targets For the old men at the off-track.. Read »