Sinister Themes - Momus

The villains of vaudeville

Young lovers' quarrels

Pearls before parliaments

Lepers in laurels

Roses that sprout from the throats of dead kings

Things in the songs with the sinister themes

Stockings and starlings

The laughter of dockworkers

Poets who flock through the cities like stockbrokers

Little Red Ridinghood living in sin

These are the songs with the sinister themes

Nasturtiums that bloom like voluptuous women

Joy in the orphan the dolphin when swimming

Fireworks and phoenixes, spas and hot springs

Sinister themes in the songs that I sing

Strumpets and kettledrums, musty old cellars

Coffee and stallions, cream and umbrellas

Angels caught up in their own puppet strings

Sinister themes in the songs that I sing

The orchid of meat in the cuckoo’s nest growing

Kisses in syllables, sex when it’s snowing

Forests where nightmares and nightingales sing

These are the songs with the sinister themes

My first is in eMbers, my second in wOman

My third in eMotion, my fourth is in hUman

My fifth is in sufferS and also in longS

My whole is in Momus and these are my songs