The dark curtain

Good evening to the dark curtain

Velvet purple in the dark shadow whim 

Across the floorboards creaking annoying

In the hall; the empty hall; with the curtain that doth fall 

Draping, raping onto the floor amidst the sounds of chatted flaws 

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Good evening to the dark curtain

Good evening to the footsteps

Across the warehouses 

Across the ocean floors

Waves of velvet

 the surface

This that cannot be ignored

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Whiskey glasses; whiskey

Pouring tots of frisky

Up the creaking steps 

Death's next victim 

By a rope hung 

Behind the curtain 

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Good evening fellows

Good evening ladies 

Tonight is gallows

Across the harbor

Across the deep

Across the shallows

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Good evening to the dark curtain

The velvet skirt that waits 

Heavenly drawn across the shadow 

So much beauty here in this hall dim

That which a knife is drawn 

To bring red to a velvet dawn 

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The waters are now frisky

The glasses empty from the whiskey

The maidens sitting next to men pretty 

The dark curtain heavy 

Upon a dark night 

A heavy heavy curtain drawn 

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Good evening to the dark curtain 

That surrounds this stage;  

Hoofs upon

These wooden floors 

Drawn into etched lines 

Of men whose lives scorn 

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A final call, 

Good evening to the dark curtain