I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)
The stars go waltzing out in blue and red,
And arbitrary blackness gallops in:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
The parentheses around this line contribute visually by acting as the sides of her head. She made her lover up in her (head), and therefore it exists in the parentheses. E. E. Cummings did similar things with his punctuation.
Mad Girls Love Song