song title / lyrics

"defiance at the top of the stairs"

a morning memorandum
of blazing hot incentives
a bursting seething brief case
all tumbling through fixed space

the pacing of the dust motes
through dismal, empty spaces
a face across the mirror
defiance at the top of (the) stairs
.. but nobody's there

cast your net and beat the bushes
reduce to demonstration
the circumstantial evidence...

thrown into the shady corner
down in dust, and wrapt in clouds
so hid from mortal vision,
a crown of thorns that no one wears
and nobody cares...