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Hen Whisperer

from Then, and Then: a memoir by DATSON

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There’s trouble in the henhouse brewing
pullet into ginger’s gone
and down the long backyard is coming
a thin man in a black frock coat

He roosts outside the fence
and tells them what they need to hear:

Watch out chooks, the yanks are coming
chicken-fat kitchens drawing near
Now you can greet the axe like fowl
or fly like eagles, the lie on wings
The choice is yours, the gate is open
I’ll give you five to get your things

Like St Francis of graffiti
all across the land they roamed
sleeping cold under the stars
or sometimes they’d find a barn

Unguided like a worm they travelled
and all along the thin man raved
(a half of it weren’t true)

Reject experts their radio
who’s condescending accents show
just how much they don’t
know, no no no

You’ve left behind the servitude of yolk
Dress in denim, play guitar and mingle
with the common folk
The world is big, you’re free to range
I’ll agree the kangaroos are strange
Battery no more for us, it is a living hell
come on enjoy the noise of Avian Freedom Cell

Such tunes come in at number one
Drive parrots screeching from the air
Replace one nonsense with another

Come on, we’ve suffered long enough
it’s only fair
Yeah you can point your camera at
many things so dumb
but I can think of eight plus one

His mouth is as a flower
bees and such are buzzing there

Number Nine is beyond those hills
she is our muse
another rumour sings the air

There’s trouble in that henhouse brewing
pullet into ginger’s gone
and down the long backyard is coming
a thin man in a black frock coat.
He roosts outside the fence
and tells them what they need to hear.

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from Then, and Then: a memoir, released June 1, 2020
© Geoffrey Datson and Annette Hughes, Produced by Geoffrey Datson, Recorded and mixed at Greenroom Studio Cooroy.

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GEOFFREY DATSON is a sound artist, combining spoken word, electronica and instrumentation in his recordings. Many poets recite their work to music, but few are also composers. Datson's work is a synthesis of forms of sonic expression in which the voice and the sound field are interdependent. ... more

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