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Mad Cows

from Then, and Then: a memoir by DATSON

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lyrics

King Malchy reigns his domain
as cool as alabaster
Order and peace supreme till
indelible bedroom scenes etch
screaming poet
in service of his queen

Precipitous,
shades drunk, awnings awry
gay withe atmosphere
liaisons disappear

Caravans of phonography
set forth awash
with a sacred cargo of sound

ENTER Grand Vizier

Most highly esteemed bovine overlord
the choreographer of cows
walking and gliding
slipping and sliding
rapping and breaking
twisting and shaking
Keeper of all the sacred steps
behind the hill obscured from human view

Caution!
A peasant approaches
Pooh-bah of nought but despot of
fleas, lice, bedbugs and
assemblaged and sundry vermin
A plague of indifference
seizes the kingdom

We need a hero to release us!
Sport and cake are of no service
Revolution! Struggle!
Overthrow of the old infestation by the new

Strands grow together
clump
reshoot
a map extends across our hopeless topography

A flickering matrix of half truths
nodule to ganglion
link

The message jumps and falsely transmitted
feeds back upon the tithe
till ten
times ten
times one hundred
times one thousand
goes exponential and explodes
fuminescence and destruction
upon all of our houses


PART THE THIRD

A new number arrives from the wilderness
summonsed by carrion crow
The caravan gone mutant
Its load reconfigures
and revisits itself upon us
fresh variation

Move steps, three by four
four by five
five by six

An outsider
delivers to the blasted progeny
a dainty trill embroidening up the settling air

Vizier retiring
a simile concealed beneath his horns
by tube of digestion
we thrive to dance another dusk till dawn

TIP
Don’t eat brains; don’t fly in planes

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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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