marja's dance party

gooseberries and blueberries
eaten in large quantities
will give you a pain in the stomach
toadstools make you wish
you had never been born
never been born

once upon a time I ate a piranha
wake up in the middle of the night
it was having a fight with a lump of stew
didn't know what to do
I swallowed a yellowy canary
chompchompchomp
that did it that did it
chompchompchomp
a yellowy canary
chompchompchomp

ivor cutler

boz

boz

boz

boz

the railway sleepers heavy and dry
from old working women's bones
trains pass over like stout husbands
jacket,vest and trousers
smelling of cloth and husband
lay black on the chair
not responding to light
my nose on the pillow
breath flows along the cotton hollows
a bare bulb yellow in the signal box
the heavy sleepers lie dark
creek under the frost
a starving bush perched on the verge
shrieks at dense air out the tunnel
tearing its twigs
ends of roots suck cinders for complicated organic compounds
the signalman is noticing his painted tea flask on the sill
he picks his nose without knowing
snot drops about his feet
dawn gleams like mercury
afraid to come up

ivor cutler