In Your Mind

He said to me: 'You're a chess player, I don't know
what's in your mind,' couldn't wait for him to go,
someone else: 'You're a writer, I don't know
what's in your mind,' such an illiterate fellow.

He said to me: 'You're an architect, you must know
just about everything that goes with the flow,'
it doesn't work that way, things can go sour,
like people in Paris who've never been up the Eiffel Tower.

He said to me: 'You're a counsellor,' heaven help me,
he'll start asking stupid questions about divorce mystery;
they said that I was a romantic, what fool was that,
made me finish up with the zig- zag smile of a cat.

She said to me: 'If you're such a great lover, why did you fail?'
For Godssake, I thought, what time does your ship sail?