How close the villain is to the harp!
Two vowels separate them, just as two small
letters separate the harp from the generous.

Of course no one learns languages like this,
Because it’s considered wrong, ridiculous,
But why that is – that’s what I want to know.
Yes the villain can be as mesmerizing as the harp,
Yes evil can seem generous, in clever disguise. Yes all
of them have their own rhythms, and all are close:
Oh who has not felt the tingling of mischief and crime,
sweet music of generosity and still, the lingering pluck
of am-I-evil, am-I-bad-beneath-it-all?

I am giving and villainous and musical.
In my body I carry clarity and crime and the harp.