Talking backwards Because time will not go backwards Because I will walk until I see an answer graffiti written backwards on the wall invisible Because I am getting ahead... watch my dust.
The fear is of the unknown. We kill the things we do not understand. Here: Talk backwards Animate a dream Here: Talk backwards Glamours mask the fear.
The need to get ahead, the burning need (watch my dust, daughter, watch my dust.) I need more than illusion We do it with mirrors, and rabbits anthanors and doves...
I thought I had found my way to the center of the invisible labyrinth; And I had-perhaps-discovered no more than the entrance.
Watch my dust.
When the magic appears, when the lights go up, When I'm dressed in my top hat And my coat of many pockets And I'm talking backwards...
Then I knew I was edging through the maze. And once I had gone past delusion Past the others All 'the great', 'the amazing', 'the master of illusion', Past all of them Once they had seen my dust, I found
Emptiness The hollow place at the center of the maze No returning No way back
Not even speaking backwards Not even walking backwards
I retreated into safety, The world of illusion, In the stage, In the footlights, All eyes upon me and no one really seeing,
Because I do not talk backwards; Because I do not say,
(thgin emoceb seilfrettub) And the night does not become butterflies. I give nothing of myself to the audience, As I do with mirrors And strings And sleight The delusion of illusion and the hand deceives the eye...
My life is strobed like lightning by a follow- spot, And looking backwards I can only see The corpses of the animals and birds Who strutted with me on the darkened stage And helped me fool them all.
Charms of birds And hats full of dead rabbits.
I take my last bow with pride, as proudly as befits a conjure man going down in flames, up in smoke.
There is no walking backwards, And I am lost in the labyrinth invisible I cannot retrace my steps.
I wrote my name on the wall of the invisible labyrinth. I was so diligent in my studies; Gave my whole time and heart to the pursuit.
