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'Too Many Poets'

Perfectly Drowned (Romulus Remus)


 

 

Key to authors' pseudonyms

floating through the lobby
on the way to wash my hands
there was still electric power
radiating from the band
somewhere up in the green heavens
is a watery patch of sun
down here in purple shadows
we can drink until we're done

rolling around, perfectly drowned
rolling, rolling, rolling

a lead-filled life preserver
souvenir of Braun Y Aur
"wish you were here" postcard
signed by weeping stars
a merman rainy day dreamer
in futuristic haze
and baroque purple horrors
in their haunted salad days

rolling around, perfectly drowned
rolling, rolling, rolling

these are pearls that were his eyes
that lucky astronaut
here's the silver tea tray
that the deep-sea fisher caught
I'm just an old sea monster
in purple formal-dress
and where I surface next
could be anybody's guess

rolling around, perfectly drowned
rolling, rolling, rolling
rolling around, perfectly drowned
rolling, rolling, rolling
rolling around, perfectly drowned
rolling, rolling, rolling
rolling around, perfectly drowned
rolling, rolling, rolling


Procol Harum concerts in 2001: index page

Manchester: Palers' Convention

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