162nd Chorus

BILL’S DREAMS
Slim girls in thin kimonos
Of blue silk, thin gossamer,
Long, that you could see thru,
Lying down, half-sitting,
Smoking through long tubes
In which every once in a while
An attendant places drug,
In a central bowl,
    And as they smoke on
    An attendant sprinkles
    their eyes with talcum
          powder
And they flutter their eyes
To the joy of it.
        Then, back in the Tombs,
           He’s smoking in his cell
           And the smoke became
           Singing people fading
           And coming with smoke
           and a guy passing bread
               Passes him up -


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