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Max Mystic
04:50
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Sunset Flash; Mystic Max
Gypsy third eye surf punk in a Cadillac
Sliding back; Max Mystic
Drinking your champagne on a pile of bricks
Slow down; Mystic Max
Golden hipbone leather on the railroad tracks
Wood and thyme; Max Mystic
Absinthe fairy got you with her bag of tricks
Quick reflex; Mystic Max
Helicopter pilot while you're playing jacks
Serpent locks ; Max Mystic
Solar luminator with your latest mix
I could disrupt the orbit of your distant molten eye
Collide the sea; Quaking like a blue moon again
Incandence; Mystic Max
Refracting your apartment with a fire crack
Pipeline curls; Max Mystic
Orca fin in tandem on your left break trick
Bring the rain; Mystic Max
Dancing in a phone booth while they paint it black
The street submits; Max Mystic
Catapulting pulses bridging every clique
I could disrupt the orbit of your distant molten eye
Collide the sea; Quaking like a blue moon again
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Railcar To Tasmania
04:58
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Pluviophiles
On a railcar to Tasmania
Don't get trapped on that track don't get trapped in line
Just to find what lies behind
The sloshy boots and postcards
It's all a mystery
Oh, you look at me like a satisfied crocodile
You smile as if to say
I just ate your sister
Adrenaphiles
On a high that races the heart
Defying the laws of nature and gravity
Not satisfied 'til the speedometer reaches
The red line of ecstasy
In a hurry to meet with destiny
Oh, you look at me like a satisfied crocodile
You smile as if to say
I just ate your sister
The train approaches
The western station
These winds unending
Are all that's certain
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One was seen in a Calcutta market
Prayer beads and plastic bags full of hair
Luxurious offerings of passion and piety
Someone had painted it gold
Two were reportedly abandoned
At the end of the comeliest cul-de-sac
Past the doorway you last checked for her
Outside the light ring
Where they all stood waiting
For bad news to come up the driveway
Three were seen skating the dead streets
of Providence
After all bedtime songs had been sung
Four ended up in Death Valley
Where the woman with the sad make up
Laces up her dress again
Under a salt crust they wait
For the orchestra but it never comes
It never begins
Blank space between the leaves
Blank space between
Friends, he's missing again
Quicksand or gusts of wind
Crows with armor
Some strange charmer
Sixty eight were glimpsed
On a receding barge
The horizon swallowed them
Their present location remains a mystery
Two hundred and ten have replaced
The skulls in a Parisian catacomb
Near the sight of an infamous cave-in
Everyone agreed they were garish but
Uplifting
I confronted one myself
Backstage of an abandoned theater
Hoisted in the air by the paint frame rigging
I turned to get my net, but it was gone
Four thousand were discovered in Antarctica
Near the base of Vinson Massif
Knocking their heads on the ice
Reports are flooding in
Something just below the surface
Threatening to rise
Like a steam vent on a snow capped volcano
And freeze there
Condensed
Blank space between the leaves
Blank space between
Friends, he's missing again
Quicksand or gusts of wind
Crows with armor
Some strange charmer
Blank space between the leaves
Blank space between
Friends, he's missing again
Sinkhole or abduction
Crows with armor
Some strange charmer here
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Eons & Ions
07:26
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Lend me your space suit, my sister
This cathedral's air remains so heavy
It gathers superstitions
It heralds premonitions
The three of us were asked here
We don't know what we're calling
The earth is brewing a force
A megalith rising through the mirrored water
No one's spoken its name in what seems like
Eons and ions, eons and ions
Scientists and doctors watch
Watch with fascination
We called in their language
In the muted tones of winter
'Til the last tremendous body
Each impossibly larger
Eons and ions in the making
It could not breech the gilded railing
Its one wild eye searched the crowd for meaning
And finding none returned to history
Eons and ions, eons and ions, eons and ions.
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Mammoth Capsule
07:12
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Picture of a stack of wrecked cars
with green light shining
Picture of a clock tower cracked
under a flickering spotlight
Picture of an idle flying saucer in a synthetic haze
Picture of a mammoth capsule
in the center of the dancehall
Crushed windows scatter green light
Twisted metal clings like lovers
Hours missing
Hands unwinding
Skewed like vectors
Angles creaking
Edgeless light speed curves shine
Mastodon squeezed inside
Oh this auto smashed up fenders
Auto smashed up mirrors
Auto smashed up headlight
Oh this timepiece trembling hands
The timepiece stripped down gears
This timepiece frozen in time
Oh this saucer
Oh this capsule chilling it down
This ice age holding it out
This mammoth bottled inside
Some things escape the frame
Infect your mind with seductive improbability
Seen in half light through your spy glass
They're not as heavy as they appear
They're just as heavy as light
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Loch Ness Square
06:23
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They saw it pouring through the valleys
They saw it pouring down the hills
And they fought it with their torches
And their tinctures and their wills
But we had no use for valor
And we had no need for fear
We lay all wrapped in our winter coats
Your lips against my hair
While blood turned the dirt to mud
While years turned the stone to sand
While storms turned the sky to red
While heat turned the sea to land
And on the ridge one hundred broken windmills
Bloomed with fire and were gone
Like knots unravelling while we sleep
She heard them running through the valleys
She heard them dying in the fields
And she cracked the earth above her
And her face it was revealed
But you and I were not among
The fleeing and the dead
You turned to me eternally
And in a halting voice you said,
Sink like stone to Loch Ness Square
Like knots unravelling while we sleep
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Every morning
Every rising
Owls and sparrows
Claws and wingspan
Stolen textbook
Folded etching
Fourths in pocket
Shake the feathers from her eyes
In the line work
Aerocity
Place where denizens
Dwell in numbers
Travel airways
Any door will lead to the outside
She dreamt of a house on a cloud
With a room with a view
And a door to the sky
The sudden birds
To be one of them
Every morning
Every rising
Wind in water
Hammered silver
Final migration
Flocks and murders
Psychic compass
Sews her velvet edges for the gift
Strokes her quills
Boards the current
Angles envisioned for the lift
For the Wright equation
Any door will lead to the outside
She dreamt of a house on a cloud
With a room with a view
And a door to the sky
The sudden birds
An endless view with a lake below
And skeletal trees on a cliff edge
To be one of them
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Where Smoke Blows Across
10:03
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From off in the distance
White dust shrouds the hoofbeats
With knives in her waistcoat
She punctures the landscape
Her horse is a strange thing
Discovered at low tide
Salt water receding
This must explain their thirst
A trembling vista
The skating stones all slide
By some bizarre physics
They keep pace with her stride
Awake the knife thrower
She sleeps under velvet
You won't feel her sharp edge
'Til it's halfway through you
The air smells like sulphur
When her pale eyes open
And brighten the landscape where smoke blows across
He rides a horse across the desert
She knows what he carries
A spellbound scroll
Secrets stolen from Bazantium
Could turn person to a demon
She's got to have it!
The rider glides between two cataracts
He knows what he has but not what it does
Danger at the red rocks
Nowhere to run
She's got to have it!
With the flash of the blade
She slices the reigns
She steals the spellbound scroll
He fires three shots in the direction she ran
The scroll lofts on the breeze
The whispering wind of change
Reads out the words in a long forgotten tongue
Be careful what you wish for
This town's been a strange place
Salt water receding where smoke blows across
Behind every window
She sleeps under velvet where smoke blows across
The dust collects corners
All courtyards are empty where smoke blows across
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Purple Mushroom House
07:45
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Postman, please deliver my note
To the purple mushroom house
You can only find it at night
By the light of the crescent moon
You ford the stream
Walking toad's backs at night
With the glint of Aldebaran in your eye
Past the field
Where nothing grows
Up a stream so cold
Pocket silver fish to feed the skinny cat
One eye leading backwards
Two eyes leading backwards
Three eyes leading
To a monolith devoured by time
Offers stones to hungry vines
Please shake into my envelope
What remains of October's leaves
The only time the stamp will stick
Is the cruelest month
frost cracks the flower
December's frozen wind
Beckons illumined beast
On a lonely path
Seeds floating from giant dandelions
Ride one up, up around this cloud
And drop into a moonlit labyrinth
Three corners forward and two corners back
Find the gate in the weeping ferns
Kiss the statue of gasping lovers
Stop below the arch
Counting raindrops twenty three
Lick the drops from the spider's webs
'Til you taste the extra hidden key
Postman
When you reach the front
Of the purple mushroom house
Fall asleep on the doorstep and dream of
Caeleno and lightening bolts
When you awake to dragonflies and spiders
Don't be alarmed
My note will be removed from your vest
When those leaves have all blown away
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10. |
Sleep Divination
07:50
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I know; you've been asleep for a few millennium...
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