Nonsense Words

There's a place I'd like to take you
where words like equivocal and absolute
are meaningless.
I'd like to take you there
that place where firemen burn in the night
and taxi drivers keep herds of cabs in line
with a vicious whip.

We'd get there and you'd look at me
suddenly still and pale and silent
and you'd say
"All this is this. All that is that.
All men are girls. All dogs are cats."
I'd say huh who when what why
and you'd look right back and start to cry.

Meanwhile these two old men in leather coats
would have carried away the world we knew
like scenery
and the new place would be home
and we'd change our names.

You would be equivocal.
I would be absolute.