captain beefheart - don van vliet poetry - noon bouncin' ball (1970)

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don van vliet SINGING INK
poetry and fine arts

NOON BOUNCIN' BALL...

untitled poem
from 1970 back cover LICK MY DECALS OFF, BABY album

note: presented under the title LICK MY DECALS OFF, BABY but as the text is totally different to the song with that same title, i try to prevent confusion by re-titling it

noon bouncin' ball of warm beside child
deflating a vegelife puzzle
a braking ball of wings, legs, leaves, lives, behives
movies from each comb
each pocket and drones bouncin' cones
prisms that melt flesh and bones
dust and dark dusklite
none numb numerals
noon ball warm beside the child
earholes, eye holes, airholes
dance, deflate, inflate meat rainbows
flesh bonnets her hair woven
toes kick dust away
drops
blue, yellow, red, green clocks
her heart pumps, stops, starts, plays, drops
eyes roll
rocks back and forth
she played though the sun stuck out her tongue
stood on one of three decals
she licked each one

don van vliet 1970

note: this is one of the three additional poems to the album which also included a painting

tip! if you like you can click clack to the other poems right away:
you should know by the kindness of uh dog the way uh human should be
the first scene was the bathtub ring
or the painting:
'lick my decals off, baby'

click clack back to the singing ink or return to the power station

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