Wednesday, February 3, 2021
computer mouse over a trapeze
somehow the goiter sac still lived
and had produced someting like a face
the face of an avant-garde artist
like artaud but with a little extra seaweed
around the sideburns
and the sideburns were forking,
each fork aiming for the brain
and in the brain were all sorts of bizarre fun
none of which he had asked for
but here he was, performing
here he was, living
for the faceless mob
who had once praised him
for his skin and lips
and earring.
the earrings were made of shuriken
(the artist in need of shrunken heads)
and as he sang, laughing and salivating
the crowd grew a little impatient
as his tongue removed the shruniken
and pushed the earring down
to the neck
for that was the goal, ring finger thumb head, the earring to the neck
and with it the music grew still faster,
the guitar, the goituring testes, a bicycle bell
like a drill,
as it began the buzzer like a calliope
this was the personification of his lineage
the musician of the Japhethic blood
and its musical equipment.
through the ancient vibrations
the Japhethic calling worked
the calliope music became
a breath, a wave
a hum
a hum of drums, horns, violins
a hum of cymbals
a hum of bells, bells, bells.
the Japhethic rhythm shook him to the core.
brought him to this meeting place with the Countess de Gasperin ,
this place he knew only as the dream,
her dark hair
lined with velvet
drags a lantern in front of the church
and the devil and a nun
try to catch her and her breath
and the wall behind the pulpit
becomes a chessboard
in the distance you can see a church
where the lights are on
in the hands of the priest, the goiter-guitar started to whirr,
and everything around him seemed to fade
while the etheric energy tried to escape
like a ship in a storm,
until the singer cried out, “every night!”
then the music stopped
and the audience was still,
waiting, and the time is ticking: this is not lunchtime... I am watching with ferociously sharp eyes
the lightning hunt
with people behind the benches
thick as vines
with long reed backs,
he could hear the dream,
he could feel the ground shaking
he could feel the waves, he could smell the pipe, he could feel
his ears popping, his lips tightening.
the music began again
he was rock solid,
he was on fire, he was floating.
the whole world was a glowing cloud.
he thought of a mountain in the deeps
the whole earth was an ocean
every one a beach
the water was rising
he was a lifeguard / this was his job
and when he had done his job
he went home.
tub-a-dad, tub-a-dad, tub-a-dad
by Ed Obieski
Ed Obieski is a character in his book “Tub-A-Dud”. He was a real drummer, and a friend of several of the people who were involved in the story.
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