In the dressing room of Marlena Dietrich
City lights
Flicker life
Like sleeping beauty pills
With elegant candor and fakery for lunch
There’s coffee and Creole kisses
Then—another take of Mask America, Splatter Matter
And Wail of the Scronch
Ringo snaps his hi-hat
Like a toddler
Flattening a mud pie
So the Beatles huddle around the cottage teapot
The Beatles perform mind only music
Phrases
Bent like funhouse mirrors
Precipitating universal shivers
The Beatles sing their world song
They recorded “Love Is a Reality”
It made number one for an eternity
Meanwhile Marlena was on local TV
Singing—just as I am
Without one flea
A talent scout saw her
And the rest is history
She joined the boys in ‘83
In China, she opens for elephant Gerald
On a stage of jade
In glory fright
With lips to drink
And instruments for singing
We Chinese go E-I-E-I-O
The concert begins
In the dressing room of Marlena Dietrich City lights Flicker life Like sleeping beauty pills
With elegant candor and fakery for lunch There’s coffee and Creole kisses Then—another take of Mask America, Splatter Matter And Wail of the Scronch Ringo snaps his hi-hat Like a toddler Flattening a mud pie So the Beatles huddle around the cottage teapot The Beatles perform mind only music
Phrases Bent like funhouse mirrors Precipitating universal shivers The Beatles sing their world song They recorded “Love Is a Reality” It made number one for an eternity Meanwhile Marlena was on local TV Singing—just as I am Without one flea A talent scout saw her And the rest is history She joined the boys in ‘83
In China, she opens for elephant Gerald On a stage of jade In glory fright With lips to drink And instruments for singing We Chinese go E-I-E-I-O The concert begins
Larry Fagin—Beatle Susan [paraphrased]