Poor De Chirico

painted by Giorgio in 1911

Oh my dear friend My dear friend
Giorgio How has this time Breton 

Discouraged your liaison with the Eye
styled metaphysical Incongruous scenarios 

Dauntly jaunt about through
nostalgic despair 

Within childlike renderings 

Of a nightmarish recall
"All my images 

Fragments I've shored upon my ruins 

Pictor classicus
sum I am pure" 

Step solemn with the Air of reluctant manes 

As rod and
hoop shadow children 

Scatter through a henna arcade 

Figures indentured
to a windless landscape 

Enduring silence and flame Da Da da 

No loyalty
to the nonsensical

Scorned their nihilist pageantry.

    -10,000 Maniacs "Poor De Chirico" from the album Hope Chest