The Ambassador is Delirious

      thin bulletins over the ocean
as if you knew
            but shimmering


      see
            that's
                  the way
      always
      perhaps
      eventually
and furthermore


            so the cups are gathered


lovely turnips and beetles


      spinning around seeing through a veil


and you must have supposed


why
why
why


            torture and torment
      no resolution


turnips and teakettles and tulips and tights
      tea for two lips turns up


beetles and bulletins and broncos and balloons


i don't like any of them except the tea


      a veil with lights
            that's how


i never understood, i still don't


            clouds have always fascinated me
      you