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The Figure Een wrote an opera
About George Antheil
and Ernie Kovacs
Convalescing
In the Old Barracks
Side by side
Figure, Ernie, and George
A trio Trentonian
Percy Dovetonsils
A singer stentorian
Libretto locked away
In an iron mountain
Brought to the stage
By the City of Trenton
The flooding Delaware
So damned diluvian
The stage is full of mud
The mud is full of corpses
The corpses are full of acting
Acting still
The audience erupts
Unalloyed cacophony
The tumult Antheil always craved so
The audience is elevated
A flying ovation
For the crowd
Thirty thousand strong
Is wholly crow
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The Crows of Trenton
02:48
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The world makes droves of noisy crows
The crows take Trenton for their home
Trenton takes the crows for foes
For staining the state’s stately dome
The team deploys the pyrotechnic
Flares and screaming crow FX
Piercing fearsome eagle cries
To trigger mass crow exodus
Where will the 30,000 go?
Flock in tandem or fan out?
Will you host diaspora
With permission or without?
Will you reach out and teach the crows
To clean up smokebutts with their toes
By rewarding, with vended crow treats,
Those that do that feat with crow feet?
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3. |
Assembling the Governor
01:45
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ASSEMBLING THE GOVERNOR.
Clean the work area
Clean the bedplate,
The mechanical feed,
The witch's hat,
The mourning glory horn,
The keen o phone,
The gooseneck traveling arm,
The half nuts,
The friction shoe.
Strip off the old finish.
A muffled sound.
Sluggish thumps and bumps.
A buzzing tension lever
Snaps back then slips.
Improper lubrication.
Flux the crack.
Use the lift lever to adjust
The half nut.
Push it through to the end.
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Cadaver Endeavors
03:37
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(Instrumental)
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Goat-Based Activities
05:24
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Once upon a time
And whatnot per se.
EIEIO
I used to have a goat.
It happened on Xmas Eve.
EIEIO
Goat-based activities.
Anyone for buzkashi?
EIEIO
Take a goat
And slash its throat.
Toss it in the water supply.
Watch all the villagers
Drink and die.
Beneath a cloud
In the shape
Of a crazy ass.
EIEIO
Life is as funny
As a chicken joke.
Life is as funny
As the Lucy
In the candy factory episode.
EIEIO
It's a cantonese songlet.
Sing it with me now.
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6. |
Ake What You Can Get
02:13
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(Instrumental)
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7. |
Everybody's Here
00:58
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Everybody's here
Luis Bunuel and Marshall McLuhan
Gertrude Stein and Johnny Two Times
Truman Capote and Jay Gatsby
Octavia Butler, Gabo and Bjork
Kurt Weill, Kurt Vile and Kurt Loder
Sun Ra, Fast-Talking Fanny
And Butcher-Knife-Toting Annie
Conrad Satie and Grandfather Dust
Zwa Zalaputka and Ella Ketterer
Madame Bijou and Crazy Man B
Jingling Johnny and the guy who drives the truck with the giant fiberglass bug on top
Marcel Marceau, Harpo and a hippo
In the surrey with the fringe on top
So glad you came, everybody's here
Now we will share hours of silence
In the manner of friends
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