Red light green light this will not continue
Red light green light this will not go on
Shanghai trio approaches,
bounding through the streets with feet like bells.
Wearing red suits; crossed in white
and their hearts are clanging like bells.
Do you remember friend,
the lanterns dangling limp like broken bells
like the fingers of a dead man
with fingers that can only touch himself.
Would you like to see
those lanterns rocking wild in the mountain winds?
My mind is worn like a puff of grey
like a lonely child who longs to dream again.
Red light green light this cannot continue.
Red light green light this cannot go on.
Throw your tea cup down
there is no time for fingering around
Lift my overcoat
Drink from the silver flask beneath my belt.
Time has curled like a baby
in a blue room where a naked lady lies.
Where she waits for nimble fingers.
To peer & pry the christian silk from her eyes.
Poised to tumbled backwards
Her arms are tied like bluebirds to the floor
She will recognize the scuffle
of your shiny shoes as they scuffle to her door.
Red light green light, nothing will remain of this.
Red light green light only three continue on.
The Shanghai Trio shakes the streets
in the autumn dusk when the sun is tired & grey.
Their blue eyes shine they’ve been washed clean
from the dust & gravel of remembering.
Look at the man with the gold drum
Which he presses like a bandage to his heart.
Look at the soldiers making love
How they leap to love & leap to pull apart.
For the children have drained from the future.
They’ve been trampled down by time like cobblestone.
But still we save our tears for the shimmered day
when the earth grows dry as a bone.
Red light green light, the night is now approaching.
Red light green light, we have no need to hide.
But you may hide in the blue room.
Press your shaking lips against her thighs.
Duck your head beneath her blue skirts.
Until the christian space has filled your eyes.
I’m gonna come in the blue room.
Knock the lonely woman on the floor.
Press her blood into the thirsty earth
And give to you, the blue she died for.
Click my heels on her body
Like victories clicked upon the wind.
Then I’ll be gone from you
& the Shanghai Trio will dance these streets again!
Red light green light what of this will continue
Red light green light, what goes on & on?