captain beefheart - don van vliet poetry

captain beefheart electricity

don van vliet SINGING INK
poetry and fine arts - poem

TULIP

from germany 1993 book+cd DON VAN VLIET * STAND UP TO BE DISCONTINUED
recited on accompanying 'poetry reading sequence' ceedee
reprinted in italy 1996 book+cd luca ferrari * pearls before swine ice cream for crows
recited on accompanying 'poetry reading' mini ceedee

it could be
a tremendous black upside-down tulip
it could be
a black fishes' tail
it could be a day, artistically crimped
and buoyant
in its taped together way

don van vliet 28 september 1991

note: this is one of the two poems that originally were published in the
book by DON VAN VLIET STAND UP TO BE DISCONTINUED

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captain beefheart electricity
as felt by teejo