"Cologne" [riff]

In my last life I must've been an artist
old habits they say die hard
today I'm an artful harakirist
in a vile of cologne hides my swoard




oddly riffing on a poem of Wang Wei's, where he muses about how he (writing such painterly poems) must've been a painter in a former life; this follows from my earlier-blogged "The liquid weapon subterfuge"]