then i walked across the room, kitchen to bathroom
while in transit
this alien beam, or something
when i sit down i'm humming edelweiss
what is that about
what is edelweiss to me
when my mom used to pick me up for thursday visits
we would go to memorial city mall
we'd eat at the york steak house
we'd shop around
we'd end up at haus edelweiss more often than not
the place had cuckoo clocks
i had kinda a thing for clocks
[i never really realized that before just this moment]
but the song
that's about the music box
[now this is not the maltese falcon it's just a jewelry box
but it was amazing]
i wanted this thing, so much
it was a regular girls jewelry box
you open it and the ballerina dances
but instead of my little girl one
which was cardboard
pink satin lined
white tulle tutu-ed dancer
lost forever in a pirouette
to the tune swan lake
this one was larger
rounded
red
leather
velvet interior
white satin evening gown
slowly twirling
to edelweiss
