Blanche Perched high upon a gaudy throne In her faded dream kingdom Where everything is soft And glimmers and glows Where brutal reality is hidden By soft colors, the colors of jasmine And butterfly wings Her singing Weary and strained Like a dying star Turning the trick She dons such deliberate disguises White satin, a paper lantern Oh Blanche Purely corrupted Lighting ****** candles To hide the stains And with wide-eyed laughter, Uttering naivetés Dropping virginal lies like pearls from a necklace Clinging to hope To unheard prayers, unseen supplications Her restless eyes Begging for mercy And wandering aimlessly Through rainy afternoons in New Orleans Her lips whisper a battle cry I don't want realism. I want magic I tell what ought to be the truth Truth is sin Verity and naked bulbs be ******
The rest of my days I'm going to spend on the sea. And when I die, I'm going to die on the sea.