mercaptan & tennille

(bellerophon via)

"Before long, the folly was to become too desperate, too disastrous, too wrecking a business to be a comic show even to the most amused eyes; the circus was, all too soon, to go smash, and the folly of the clowns who had helped to smash it became bitterness, and the idiot's tale held too much of sound and fury to be borne. But these first-Georgian years were, to Rome, twinkling with bland absurdity." --Told by an Idiot (1923)

Excess--The Factory.

      creep of a dot-airplane
across stagnant cumulus
      driving to squander time
Radio Tarifa plays
      how can i connect with
70 Ophiuchi
      photo from Google Maps
planning to make drawing
      a ribbed, coppery dime
with its myst'ry acronym
      for this photo album
nobody at work wanted
      & hospital vigils
that can end in nothing good
      sad scholar debacle
after tholing Katrina
      & don't get me started
or the worldwide forest fires
      or the tax man cometh
can't blame it all on Cheetoh
      & gas is down so low
that i start to get worried
      what kind of trick is this
which happens for a reason
      like that phantom planet
nobody could really find
      so they sent us space probes
full of men with blue faces
      this was forty years back
guess by now the aliens won
      & they take our organs
whenever they require one
      i miss the purple wigs
the one 80s prediction
      that they almost got right
chlorine trifluoride liquid
      a hell of an ocean
planet of a purple sun
      & ourselves still at war
with an unseen enemy
      don't know when the next bright
explosion will batter us
      in this future

Big-endian.