Sliding Trombone (by Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes)
I have a little windmill on my head
Which draws up water to my mouth and eyes
When I am hungry or moved to tears
I have a little horn full of the odour of absinth in my ears
And on my nose a green parakeet that flaps its wings
And cries 'Aux Armes'
When from the sky fall the seeds of the sun
The absence from the heart of steel
At the bottom of the boneless and stagnant realities
Is partial to crazy sea-fish
I am the captain and the alsatian at the cinema
I have in my belly a little agricultural machine
That reaps and binds electric flex
The cocoanuts thrown by the melancholy monkey
Fall like spittle into the water
Where they blossom again as petunias
I have in my stomach an ocarina and I have virginal faith
I feed my poet on the feet of a pianist
Whose teeth are even and uneven
And sad Sunday evenings
I throw my morganatic dreams
To the loving turtle-doves who laugh like hell.
TWO MEN AND A TREE @ OSMC, THURS 14TH AUGUST (THAT'S 2MORO!)
One of our number is swanning off to America for a year, so come and join us for what could well be the last chance to see the full compliment of Two Men and a Tree on the Orange Street stage for a while. Come one, come all, and join us for an evening of low-fi, ramshackle revelry; for old songs, new songs and sailors' songs. You know it makes sense... With support from Natalie Farr (9.00pm) Two Men and a Tree (9. 45pm
No no I enjoy cyber fly posting. Correct I probably cannot make it...but do appreciate the invite. I am good mostly involved with this opera about coal with the WNO...it's odd. How are you?
Sat 3rd May...Gandalf's Garden Party @ The Jamm, Brixton...BeatNik, John Monkman (Flip Flop), Fromem Ory, Bonze, Agent Orange, Circulus LIVE....Tickets £9 in advance from access all areas... http://www. onlinestall. com/cgi-bin/stall2. pl?act=ep&id=3462
Just wanted to thank you again for the gig last night. You played an awesome set. It would be great to work with you again in the Summer - maybe at The Foundry?
