Twilight Furniture

Surveying the twilight furniture

Telescope pressed to patched eye

Love is blind, so we are told

Don't pull the wool over our eyes

Shuttered eye, metal eye

Eye and brain, I and brain

Shapes policed and disinfected

Searchlights stop towers and dead sky

Tommy guns, typewriters aimed and loaded

Fountain pen and a .35

Careless talk costs lives

Careless love costs lives

Cease-fire ends at midnight

Curfew starts at ten

Unclear vision as soon

Nuclear fission our friend

We must shake him by the hand