NO ONE WATCHING

a marvellous night

a marvellous woman

they married in the winter

they parted in the spring

she threw her wedding ring

into the Lake of Decisions

she continued

he continued

they met again

in the south of France

she was living alone

but in great beauty

he appeared to her

as a toad

she chased him

out of the 18th century

he thinks of her all the time

but in the winter

he goes crazy

he walks up & down the room

singing Hank Williams

the police put tickets on his car

the snow removal people

cover it with snow

finally it is towed away

to a huge white field

of frozen dogs