I can treat you to visits to coastal pillboxes I like to delve in destruction, lust and debauches And I am the one who stamps on all ages From sixteen to forty, over and under I'm monolithic, and the black ice on the corner
Hiss, hiss, hiss Hiss, hiss, hiss Hiss, hiss, hiss Hiss, hiss, hiss
As all is as one, as all damp on all stone I hold all time and can induce at once Jet trains, lead paint, stamps on border forms Misread Easter Island, put butter on plague style Spin complete revolutions and not bat an eyelid And alter tree-rings so that what you are after You will not ever find with a surfeit of lumber And make you imagine from hunger Bread trees spinning, dripping with butter Just six inches higher than your upstretched middle finger
History of the ... Hiss, hiss, hiss Hiss, hiss, hiss
I place minute dust in your microchip vessels For daring to think all science is immortal I am the one who'll strike you down at once For stretching time bracket, and assuming that what is can be maladjusted A rigid adoption Of codes you had concocted I can treat you to visits of coastal pillboxes And show you all hideous microscope thingies And Hovis set-up in London's psoriasis
Stockings, jokings, 1780s
History of the wo ...
I like to delve in destruction, lust and debauches And I am the one who stamps on all ages From sixteen to forty, over and under
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