a dragon tattoo

a dragon tattoo

painted the landscape blue

under an Eisenhower cloud
the radio turned up loud

in a 1950's style of vanishing ink

the clean porcelain kitchen sink

with a dirty Beatnik puddle
guilty little children inside their huddle

and their wooden desk

the Dick and Jane reading test

then Kremlin eye in black and white
with Mr. Spy inside his fight

an electric cool aid jazz guitar

but Sigmund Freud knows who you are:

the preformed bra with lipstick marks
and in the sky the meadowlarks

the railroad yard can feel the cold
in winter when your bones grow old

remembered secret thoughts unfold
but no one near can truth be told

and at the pool skin undercover
Buffalo Bob and Ozzie each dreaming of a lover

with her apron smile on the bedroom floor
trapped into doing most any chore

in TV land where they advertise
and sparkle all your dreams with lies

the railroad yard can feel the cold
in winter when your bones grow old