There's trouble up at Cowbell Barn
The Shadoks are going back to the moon
With rhododendrons in a burlap sack
Resin on a hessian violin rag
All in Helvetica Light
Robert the devil witnessed the nostril
Of an elderly phoenix in a youth hostel
Playing violin up a monkey pine
In a finger painting for Dr Prinzhorn
(Psychiatrist of these parts)
The violin frightened Bimbo the cat
So they put on a tape of the sound of pot plants
Growing, little knowing
That a woodlouse would grouse about that
A call came in from the Empire of Numbers
A government inspector was pa**ing amongst us
Incognito, my little female circus rider
From Exotik Park would have to go
Rainy weather by the river
Snake paths in the gra**
The child with a Chloranthemum divining twig
Cuts Alpinism cla**
Delia Derbyshire, Malcolm Clarke
And Desmond Briscoe sit in the dark
Invoking a spirit mathematician:
Phra the Phoenician
High on his evergreen reputation
Don John's under investigation
Apparently his donkey ratted on him
Because the Don frightened him out of his skin
It's a shambles, never mumble in the brambles
A little Italian opera queen
Is reading a book to the twitter machine
'AAAS Calcul-Geometrie
(Element 18)'
Tunis Hamamet, that conifer smell
The oriental cemetery -- and there's Bill
Explaining pop music to the mentally ill
Stirring mint tea with a Lucifer match
Let's stay a while and watch
Pictograms in porcelain
Sketches of birds, vogel skizzern
Field dynamics for sizothymes
Going for a walk with a line
What a palaver, more's the pity
d**h is in Dessau buying pottery
Orienteering, you part the trees
And see three walled medieval cities
And a dragonfly
Meister Eckhart went into the light
And found a desert on the other side
'Children of wisdom', Goethe said
'Make fools of the fools, as one should'
That advice is good
Put down your line, put down your pen
A snowstorm is approaching, friend
Soon it'll all be white
It's paper in the end, and light