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John Speke
03:36
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John Speke,
Have you seen him lately?
With that unkempt mane
He’s been meditating
His complexion’s changed
& His eyes are sinking
Have you heard him rave?
Like a condemned sinner
Burning at the stake
Like a hogtied missionary
In a foreign place,
In a fever state…
…Under full flower moon
I dreamed a thangka in bloom
It buffaloe’d the demons that were
leading Me from glory in Taborah!
In a lake formed from Apache Tear
Squatted BDelia, Maiden of Bath Elixirs
She sprinkled lavender & majik herbs
Then stirred the sapphire seas
Of Zanzibar
Her dripping hand, gold glistening
It pointed me to Lake Victoria
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Snake to the Birds
02:16
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Upon the ushered sun
Placed my shed skin
Poked my ruptured heart
Leaking emerald light from dark
Fashioned each chamber into a charm
Drew my pistol, I felt the welder’s spark
Flaunted haunted heritage like a flag
I threw my snake to the birds
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Kali-Yuga
04:48
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Long ago I heard a voice
Emerge from stretched, wet Deer pelt
Ever since, I’ve turned an ear
To every conch or turtle shell
The voice I heard was a faint whisper
Submerged by our blood memories
Ever since, I’ve learned her tongue
So that one day she may speak:
If you’re on your moon,
Best get on the move-
Kali-Yuga, soon...
Whenever we feel we’ve climbed
Out the sea of wrong
From which we sprung,
The ladder births another rung
But love, love will come easy
When the chords resolve
Yes love, love will come easy
For us all
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No Moonlight
02:01
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No Pagan curse,
No ancient verse
Will render our love useless
No moonlight,
No kunzite
Can measure the pleasure you give
We’re sprawled out in a Grainer car
On the old Sante Fe
Rolling like a thunder cloud
Through pews of blue corn
Praying for rain
Namo Namah, My BDelia
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Calcify
02:22
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C’mon mama, let’s calcify
Won’t you swaddle me by the dellside?
C’mon mama, let’s calcify
No second thoughts in the afterlife
Your piercing eyes,
Prussian azurite
C’mon mama, let’s calcify
We’ll get lost to the elements,
Amber wandering elephants
Ever On the lam
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Thought I Knew Love
04:41
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Oh baby, it may be true
Thought I knew love until I met you
In the days of old, I sang alone
‘Til I searched through howlite runic tunes
For a note to hold & Call my own
It came unprovoked, astral kitten to my milk
The loom still spinning her silken whiskers
She purred the word of durga,
I bowed
Oh baby, it may be true
Thought I knew love until I met you
Like a koan undone, or a cold bloodstone
Dropped on the throat of an oracle
Waking, heartsick hysterical
So it goes, this hymnal
Ebbs and flows, but I know
As long as the veil is lifted,
As long as the litter is sifted
We’ll meow
Oh baby, it may be true
Thought I knew love until I met you
And darling, don’t question my vow
I’ll rub your ears when light gets too loud
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Bead, Wire, Bone
03:09
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Father of my night-sweats, Kolcutta
I can swallow anything
I’m a rare specimen, Kolcutta
Could have been corn maiden
When your galley washed ashore
I could taste your sea-swept vision
Didn’t want your lower lip then
But you beat me into submission
Bloodied my bronze skin, clashing brazen
Muddied my hot spring, masking pain within
Played my body like a drum, like a bodhran
Laid me down, cracked me with your tongue
Father Kolcutta, you Wore me out
Broke me down to bead, wire & bone
Ground me down with your selenite pestle
Father Kolcutta, fill my vessel
I can swallow anything
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Mudhead
02:54
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Even when the snow below seems more pure
Even when the rusted bolts are a blur
I will tame the buffalo herd
When the earth starts to shudder
I’ll shoot the lantern
From the brakeman’s hand
We’ll count the feet in the constellations
If ever the madness turns DARKMOTHERSCREAM
I’ll be the Mudhead, bring you down…
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BDelia's Bathmilk
01:46
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Asphalt bathsalt,
Clove & rose petal,
Aquamarine mala beads,
Fragments of human skull,
Hair of a yak, teeth of a cat
All boiling in the mire-
Broth of lost desire
Heard it resonate
Thirty knots deep:
“BURTON SHOT SPEKE!”
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