captain beefheart electricity

don van vliet SINGING INK
poetry and fine art - poem

GIL

from switzerland 1987 book DON VAN VLIET * SKELETON BREATH, SCORPION BLUSH

reprinted in, and recited on accompanying 'poetry reading sequence' ceedee:
germany 1993 book don van vliet * stand up to be discontinued
italy 1996 book luca ferrari * pearls before swine ice cream for crows

bub and gil
bub and gil
bub in india
bub and mat
bub in the wool
bub in a rug
indoor bub - bub in stitches
glass bub - bub in rope
bub in jail
bub in tent
bub in pale
bub on springs - bub's brakes
bub in pajamas
bub's party - with gil and mat and bub in stitches
erect bub
gil's pill
perfumeral

don van vliet - before 1969

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clue
frank zappa's 1969 album 'hot rats' (with guest vocal by captain beefheart) is

[dweezil is frank's son]

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you might be interested in the other poems from the book:
the tired plain
odd jobs
seam crooked sam
a tin peened reindeer
three months in the mirror
infra-grams

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as felt by teejo


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