Play It Again  Gus

 

                         There is a bit of sadness  here

                         Mahler  some music  please

                         we have know it all along

                         haven't we  darling?

                         so let me set the scene

                         the light is just a shade of gray

                         as the blinds begin to close

                         and the blooms begin to fall

 

                         Remember the relatives  dear

                         how they drifted in and out

                         some were friends

                         others  part of a landscape gone

                         captured on a canvas

                         by an impressionist  perhaps

                         they have the brush

                         I have the word

                         Mahler  please pick up the beat

 

                         What will happen to all the shops

                         in all the malls

                         all the churches  all the mosques

                         the synagogues and such

                         where will all the cigarettes go

                         untouched  unsmoked?

                         thing of growing weeds  my dear

                         in the lobby of a fine hotel

 

                         A hush descends

                         as the curtain falls

                         not a dry eye in the house

                         and Mahler  please

                         a little music for the soul

 

 

                                                         Jack Mashman

                                                         Rev. 1994