Unsettled

Robyn Hitchcock · Luminous Groove [2008]

What can I say to you?



Butter engines packer swallow piston in you shatter inches bell

Blood or glass eruption it embarrassed of the seven druids

Muscle-bound instructions of a patient forest fire

In the mouth, the dogs expire



Helicopter pepper cord I'd ram impatient swallow on patrol

Gotta leave her heart plug in her dinner service multiply my

Casserole is friendship easy fear in patterned leaves

Suddenly the feeling of you leaves



Everybody fourteen-points in session buy a rusty pair of clint

Should in fact potatoes straddles rockery of hairy mythic

Mental dung-heap flurry over shot lasagna breeds

In a hollow shoe the mincemeat sees for you

Everything breathes for you



Got a heart exact tomato flourish on a spike of greedy prongs

If a baseball dug moussaka Alan wraps the biscuit in a

Novel thongs accepted every turning bends away

Biting off a crust, the troubled hey do you

What can I say to you?

What can I say to you?

What can I say to you?



...(in white they dance) against the blue and wail

Their curling bodies flail around the sail

The figurehead before the mast

Stares back into the golden (past)...