The sky is Aladdin
And the moon
His magic lamp
The lamp is rubbed often
By the snow-white fingers
Of the clouds
But the genies appear
Only on the ground
And the genies
Are all beautiful!
They bear that
Which flows from the heart
And through the pen
1.
The educated eccentric
Is excited
"The geriatric night
is poring over the
lexicon of the skies
through the moon-monacle!"
2.
And the granny who
sells her wares by the wayside,
"Now there's a fluffy white pancake
fried in the sky-pan downside up
by granny Sun."
And so granny called it pancake
And it panned the pan-like sky
3.
And the little boy
wished a wish that night,
"I wish I may
I wish I might
String the moon
And fly my kite."
4.
And the petal-soft heart
of the flower girl waned,
"I shall twirl my loom
from the passing clouds,
string it with starry blooms
And garland the moon."
5.
And the fisherman weeps for
The white fish those swim the skies!
"Who be that heartless fiend?
Who swam the milken moon-lake
And cast out the fish within?
Look at them thrash at
The floor of the sky!"
6.
And the tree-lover opens
The canopies of his heart
"The moon-tree's branches
Hug the sky
And sings to the starry-sparrows
a lullaby."
Night-time's clasp weakened
The corners of the sky
were streaked
with reddish clay
The sun began
to bustle about
And the people
grew busy getting lost!
The sky choked
at the smoke rings
of men and their machines
And aladdin...
fell back into his cave!
