his leisure suit is neatly folded benith his sweating palms each exact line per-measured and tailored to demonstrate to all who gaze on his corrupt face that he is a man in need of a beach a little drink with an umbrella and a dusky girl named Lola
she walks the fenceline she mends the gaps with patchs from the pants of this girl from phish tour and peices of the tye-dye tapestry she uses as a blanket we mend our lives with the things we have at hand we see our lives in the slow motion of each days new reality regardless of its bearing on what reality really is its a painting of a man painting a smile on a sad womans face sitting on hasting's whisper wall
the corporate man with his far eastern flavors tends to exaggerate his bent frame over people sitting at the whisper wall his face sings a sweet song but his fingers set fires in the pockets of passerby's stealing the coins of the relm but only the ones with a stuttering king
gone down this road many a time seen this same company of rabble-rousers dressed in folds of scented linen walking along the river road disscussing in mid-evil painters and poets but they never resolve the questions of the universe they never even agree what topping to get on the pizza so much for the rule of wisdom
been many years since i sat at hastings-on-the-hudson's whisper wall with that girl but i still cherish the conversations we had and time i spent there with her i have a new whisper wall on a beach facing the setting sun
dara steinberg is the girl mentioned....thank you for everything you did and said...friends like you are irreplaceable.