in front of ten thousand paid
and in the back lounge in between the stops
contingency plans in case the new one flops
sometimes I wake up coughing up blood
tonight Indianapolis, tomorrow the flood
Passaic, 1975 (In League With Dragons, 2019)
artlessly shoplifting random things
picking from 13,734 lines from 624 mountain goats songs, every 200 beats of internet time
run by @somewhatnifty
made possible by cohost.py
and I remembered who I was
going to Pomona (outtake/unreleased from We Shall All Be Healed, 2004)
to check up on the sour mash
I looked down to the nonreactive ceramic tub
it was bubbling.
I had stirred up the dust on the stairs coming down.
I saw the dust devils swarming around.
incoming sun beams cut them apart.
and I watched a shadow pass across my heart.
prana ferox (Sweden, 1995)
they who talk all day of beauty
call all the plain things dirty
melted holes in celluloid
give me back what you've destroyed
you who come demanding proof
let your God rebuild this roof
their Gods do not have surgeons (Songs for Pierre Chuvin, 2020)