Recorded late at night after rehearsal, collected as Inventions, Chiefly Four-Part: A Musician’s Sketchbook.  The game is that I must play all the parts of the song, even bass, on one guitar, the Jag or the LP or the Strat or the Tele, multi-tracked, of course.  Some of the inventions are completed songs.  Some even have lyrics, which I will publish later, if I ever record them as stand-alone compositions.  Others of the inventions are just made up on the spot.  The poems were composed in one sitting long after the songs were recorded.  All the poems are improvised and relate atmospherically to the respective songs.  Read the poem while listening to each instrumental song.  Click on the links, y’all.

1.
01 Fd
Heidegger was a putz to call technology a problem
The only problem with technology is humanity’s dependency
But that’s not an avoidable error but a characteristic of the species
An unfortunate side-effect of this dependency is the tendency
To apply technological logic inappropriately
As for example to use a person’s body as a cum machine
A female dildo
And you define yourself by the brands of your appliances
Eat ya female dildo
But peace be among you
Praised be the dissonant as when the slide guitar changes key
And the phase shifter
With a hint of reverb
And harmonic distortion from the blessed output tubes
My instrument my little tool
A got the blues for my brother got stepped on by the man
Thinking technologically not brotherly
Minor third
Whole major second
Whole diminished second

2.
02 The Snatchy Waltz
I looked at the flocking birds to catch an omen
In their thousands heading north
In the temperate Georgia clime
Th’insignia on their epaulets
Bespoke a commanding and prophetic power
And they massed on the very floor of the yard
I asked quite bluntly will I win or lose
The blackbirds reply we’ll never tell
All facing one direction
They pecked at the faithful ground
And I again in love business or marriage
Said the birds we hwe hwe’ll never tell
We twee wee twee wee

3.
03 blue turnip tops-001 tu good mix
Pale the sycamore spreads its branches
The wide leaves ragged and creased
The bark peeling like the wallpaper off plaster
To be too good
Too you be too good
Be too good we have to start over
Pain Pain Pain Painpainpainpainpain
Chapped lips cold sores

4.
04 Want you to see want you to know 2
Want you to see want you to know want you to know
You rode the range the full range of fast food
And stretchy jeans and flimsy shoes
A bit down on the heel asleep at the wheel
Want you to see want you to know
With your eyes open so round
Nose on the ground
Look of delighted describe it surprise
Live the moment again and again
With your radar picture phone
With a homing device for the NSA
When the saints go marching in
I guess I watch em march
I’m most likely marching out
Seen them come and go
I’m marching out
I’m militantly cool
I got to gird it up
I got got to see
I got to go
I got to go
You know what I’m talking

5.
05 flopsum & jepsum2
Way in the distance like a foggy unicorn
She shimmers like Venus at sunset
And at sunrise
And at sunrise
We’ll touch the feeling of the center of the feeling
Feeling good
Feels good in the morning
Talking late at night
In crashing surf or the mountain’s height
I got the feeling that old sweet feeling again
I got you close to me
Watching the clouds go by
Like a boat on the sea
Fly Venus
Fly her bodily
Baby it’s just you and me
Baby baby
Baby baby
You’re feelin so good
You’re feeling good
I got the feeling

6.
06 fthlame 009
Watch your step
Watch your step immediately
I got a after aura of the waves they shot through me
Got good signal that time
Wave wave wave wave wave
Get a treasure for the autograph seeker
The celebrity at the TV window
In the holiday parade
Wave wave wave wave wave wave
Let it low as you can go
As you can go
As you can go
As you can go
The rockets’ red toes
The missile’s pink nose
Go play my show
It’s been a hard play’s show
Let me whisper in your rear

7.
07 scrash-001
Pick little daisies
The little sprinkly
That you find in the meadow
Whatever a meadow is
What ever it is
What ever it is
Doo wah diddy
Living for the city
Got hard jones for you
Got hard hard hard
Just gotta live with it
Endless frustration

8.
08 i don’t wanna try instr. demo
I don’t wanna try any more
Been at it a long time you and I
Handled a lotta crises
Now you got your mind made
My mind’s crossed too
I don’t wanna try any mo wo wo wo ur
All this talk’s getting us no place
I’m so tired of looking at your face
When will it end
In the sunshine or shower
I’m always that thing on the top of the line
I’ll be there for you baby
When you want to come on up
Come on Come on Come

9.
09 hang on loopies
The turgid waters surround me
I fear a pleasant death
Like I might not go through with it
My lover has me crazy
She has a quiet way of making demands
I’m inundated with troubles
No matter what they weigh they refuse to crush me
How can they so weigh me down
I’m victim of circumstance
In the name of the one I love
My one and only
Left me here to drown
Martial cadences for the mighty parts
Sexy moans for the erotic spots
Pathetic sobs for the sentimental episodes
I’m only here to clean the pool
The pool the whirling pool
The pool that glubbubs mu gark
Still no grandiose finale
How bout some pitchforks already
You lazy spawn of satan suck
Suck my cock
You demonic sacks of real shit
That I whipped up cause I couldn’t help it
Swear to god dreaming up imps
And plugging them into holes
In my consciousness
I gotta shit load of consciousness
Vipers
Parasites
Up my ass trying to get a bite
I can’t hold em
I can’t hold em off
I got no got no got no

10.
10 Shielded Cable
A double rainbow in the key of A
Cynical swine to scorn a bucolic fable
Here I lie lazing with my oaten flute
The one I love
Waits the other side of the brown hill
In a grain of sand is a universe
Going round and round and round
Stop asking about love
Though I delight to hear your voice
Even in logical complaint
Especially in complaint
The loverly sound of your voice
Sound of sound of of of
Leave here leave me alone
Only bring your lips up to my ear
Tell me what’s on your mind
Tell me what’s on mine

11.
11 scotische plover mkpc 001
Struggle is endless
The toil the pain
Clowns drive Mercedes
People shot down in the streets
There still is sweetness
Cecilia’s pie crust
The seventh symphony
Exile
And my baby’s coming up after me
See how she shines
Take a picture ya wisacre
Hobby horses gallop into the litho sunset
In USA and in heaven

12.
12 panic button
In a line of ants are the pheromones
That help the little bastards find their way home
With today’s booty a grasshopper or some peanut butter
So it each with each of us push and pulling in the city
I got ants in my pants and the ants is me
Ants in my pants
I need to dance
Chaunt a chanty Edgar
Terrence this is stupid stuff
My mama say stupid is a bad word
Shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up
Let’s dance the Extravaganza
You mount a vaganza on the floor
You kiss while you’re dancing
And sing the house of the rising sun
The burning pitiless sun

13.
13 Stealers Can’t Be Dealers
Shucks huckleberry
The hounds done got there before you
You ran in a circle you clumsy bum
But you can live for a month under a porch
You can turn cat food into wine
You can waggle your tummy like the victim of a hurricane
You lying sack of shit
You can mark a man like cain, but you can’t make him unable
Ain’t that right lawdy mama
You make a habit of the blues
The real ones come down like hail walk like a man
Going home
Home is gone
Or it never was
Well I remember it was
That’ll have to do

14.
14 I need your help
Rescue me from this desert island
Who’m I talking to
This island is deserted
Except for me
So I play a tropical sing
On my imaginary steel guitar
Don’t go back and revise
Time the illusion keeps on moving on
I can’t go back I can’t go forward
I can’t even stand my ground
I got no ground to stand

15.
16 turd stalking ban fleight retred
I have seen the end of the world
I have seen the end of the world
Oh the sorrow and destruction
Nothing came only
No revelation only over
I have seen the complete extinction of time and space
I have seen the the heat death of the universe
There may be other universes
All’s I know is this one’s ending
I got words more powerful than actions
Gonna make you understand
I have seen the end of the world
I have seen the end of the world
Oh the horror oh the suffering
Little girl little girl
Calm down and set a spell
I want to have a nice visit with you
No threats no vile deceptions
I really want to be with you
I’ll show you pictures
I’ll hear you sounds
You’ll wish you could be there
You’re already there
Hear that train roll by
Knocking every rail on its side

Coda
Now I enjoy the fruits of my lucubrations
They’re probably 6 point 2
But drink 3 of them and you’ll be stoned
And I know the treasures of consent
Love me like you know it
Like you done a long time before
A long time before
A long before
Belong afore
All aboard
All abroad
Away a yo