| The Machine In The Garden by Bayne MacGregor |
Under the threatening of rainstorms howled the madness and the joy In the garden of the Gypsy club, the foolish then employ Haunted mushroom liquid dreams and the poetry of the loon Frantic carnal dances for the vampire moon A Yiddish violinist, a companion to a cat Danced around a dish for me he’d stolen from a rat He danced down to the docks at once right to the edge of sea Threatened to board a ship of fools and all of this for me I thought there for some silver coin they tossed into a hat I battled with a songbird for the attentions of the cat I lost my heart to spanish eyes and all that that entails I spilled some mud; I drank some blood and tried my hand at flails Brought to light within the garden of pleasure and of fright By the ministry of Tesla in the medium of sight Though sat I happy as can be twixt leather and twixt lace Was an enigma so absurd to break my succubal embrace A machine it was I once was sure of tinker make and fame Artifice, automaton, on man I pinned the blame Yet ghosts they were and wraiths as well who had no wish to fade Messiah of cogs springs and gears a robot god they made It ate a fortune decades old at expenses none would balk It gave a whirr it gave a click and it began to talk Words of love and serenity, peace and of fidelity It even spoke to those with need of fiscal instability Like all things rare and special, the few would have increase Uprise the mediocrity to cry cyst and decease An angry mob of business suits with pitchforks and with flame Did what they could to break the thing and act about with shame The damaged mechanism carried off by bats in flight Into the gentle kindness of the creatures of the night It does not talk it only rusts yet holds its heads up high I think it weeps for those who could not bare to watch the sky And so I lean upon this thing as I drink and sing When I am not kissing lips and trying not to fling My meal upon the table on which my words I make I ponder this clockwork god and wisdom try to take |
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