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Borrowing History
03:34
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I’ve fulfilled my obligations
and it’s the early afternoon
I’ll have a cup of tea and a sedative
in the reading room.
Give me your reference code
and your library card,
your borrowing history.
Are you avant-garde?
Your mood has changed since Satan drove
a flaming bolt through you.
Do you have to keep going on about it,
sucking on your wounds?
Reading in your library seat
your stigmata appeared on all
the wrong parts of your meat.
These documents on the occult
might give your life some meaning.
What wanker uses microfiche
to summon up a demon?
Your mood has changed since Satan drove
a flaming bolt through you.
Do you have to keep going on about it,
sucking on your wounds?
Time to study just for joy,
relax and clear your head.
Put your mind to something you enjoy:
a Mass for the Dead.
There’s a disturbing presence in the reference section.
malevolent and wired
I’m forging an identity:
effectively expired
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Blood Cuddling
04:53
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The mother’s girl jumped into her open mouth,
found a friend in a desolate landscape.
Heard something blood cuddling.
The coy cow boy boy
Let a blood cuddling cry
The coy cow boy boy
Let a blood cuddling cry...
Pinned to the prairie
Blood cuddle
Pinned to the prairie
Plague-bringer
It’s not my name
It’s just a job title
The Pierrots are getting a slick reputation
The frontier is just the edge of contagion
They show up like spirits
Conduct themselves poorly
Chalk-crazed hoodlums with opium eyes
Festering funly
Coming across the plain
Chalk-faced
Poppy eyes
Coming across the plains
Choking on mushroom bones
They’re so sad
They’ll murder the world
Coming across the plains
Choking on mushroom bones
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It’s not your birthday. I don’t care. I tell you it’s your birthday
and we’re throwing you a party. No, you may not try to leave.
You get on everybody’s wick.Take a seat. You’re very sick.
It’s not a good idea I think to have you roaming free.
Sit down in this chair
Sit down in this chair!
I met a man the other day. He was not very pleased with you.
I’ll have to write up a report. The optics are not good.
There are people in the party who could do without your antics.
The police are known to the police. Now here's your fucking cake.
Sit down in this chair
Sit down in this chair!
You get on everybody's wick.
You aren't a poet, you're a prick.
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Who’s gonna smite us now?
Come on then
Who’s gonna smite us now?
Queztalcoatl
Quetzalcoatl
I am just a petal
destroyed in battle.
Quetzalcoatl
You'll end up in hospital
Quetzalcoatl
You don't understand rules and regulations
The eagle elite bloodletters rise with the sun
With their polythene bags of unforeseen fluids
They've better things to do than be the servant of a serpent with feathers
Waiting:
to be hooked up to another IV
to be hooked up with a social worker
bringing gifts of jade and the sacred mushroom
roaring in the recreation room
Turkeys with human blood
Turkeys with human blood
The discharge forms are a distant promise
It depends on how you respond
In the meantime do not eat anybody's heart
That would be a start
They're chiseling at your temple
They’re chiseling at your temple
They’re chiseling at your temple
All through the night
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