please, remember me
mistakenly
in the window of the tallest tower
call, then pass us by
but much too high
to see the empty road at happy hour
gleam and resonate just like the gates around the holy kingdom
with words like 'Lost and Found' and 'Don't Look Down'
and 'Someone Save Temptation'
please, remember me
as in the dream
we had as rug-burned babies
among the fallen trees and fast asleep
aside the lions and the ladies
that called you what you like, and even might
give a gift for your behavior
a fleeting chance to see
a trapeze swinger
high as any savior
...
please, remember me
finally
and all my uphill clawing, my dear
but if I make the pearly gates
do my best to make a drawing
of God and Lucifer, a boy and girl
an angel kissin' on a sinner
a monkey and a man, a marching band
all around the frightened trapeze swingers
iron & wine / the trapeze swinger
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