A concert took place in Severance Hall
The moldering edifice since renamed Hall Hall
And some ruby conjunction was established
Between the nascent jurisprudence
Of countries far distant in place and time
And the fans with their pennants and caps and merch
Calculated to forestall the virtus dormitiva
Sister Mercy hawked upir stimulating jams and jellies without
In strategic alliance and seeming-meretricious folderol
And bitter melodies circulated
Redolent of the mushrooms and butterflies
Of an alien cuisine
The apotheosis of the minor second

Get your cornflakes r r-r r-r

Even the slate of a neonate
Having swayed with the gait
Of the heavy stick-to-itive mother
And heard her proleptic crooning
Is not entirely blank and by two and a half they’re singing
Lmnop together
A threnody of throbbing thrum
And the single senator that makes up the 2nd amendment
For example
Means one thing to one guy and something entirely difficult
To those charged with interpreting it

Skiffs glide upon the windy river
Aircraft pierce the hardy cloud
The carpool line creeps after its unassuming fashion

Like the ones who came up during Korea
Liked to play it cool like flatted fifths
But the Viet Nam kids
Favored dayglo heat
Passacaglia in the blacklight pastoral
The costume confers the super power

And so to the green pills
Described for the fulsome illness that it was discovered
Responds somewhat optimally to the little green pill
A time-release capsule really
And the reckoners of cultural decay
Stand upon ceremony as they have immemorially done
Something to do with the immortality of the soul
I’m quite careful of stigmatizing myself thank you

Where have all the madcap zanies gone

Am I inoculated against decadence
If I proclaim my own decadence

Must I ask a rhetorical question
Or must I ask
Canned foods tout the level of mercury within
What they think this is some kind of
Two-neutrino double beta decay
The advertisements on the taxi cabs
Having been replaced by the lack
Of advertisements on the gig drivers
But the slippered emperor still shills
For nighty-night beddy-bye protective devices
Guaranteed to secure your drowsy numbness