Mary Fuckin’ Poppins

Tom Waits- Watch her Disappear; best lyrics on the “Alice” album
Last night i dreamed that i was dreaming of you and from a window across the lawn i watched you undress, wearing a sunset of purple tightly woven around your hair, that rose in strangled ebony curls moving in a yellow bedroom light. The air is wet with sound. The faraway yelping of a wounded dog and the ground is drinking a slow faucet leak. Your house is so soft and fading as it soaks the black summer heat. A light goes on and a door opens and yellow cat runs out in the stream of a hall light and into the yeard. A wooden cherry scent is faintly breathing the air. I hear your champagne laugh. You wear two lavender orchids, one in your hair and one on your hip. A string of yellow carnival lights comes on with the dusk circling the lake in a slowly dipping halo and i hear a Banjo tango and you dance into the shadow of a Black Poplar Tree. I watch you as you disappear…