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Make it a little constrained
Make it a little more excellent
You've something on your head
A bill and fur
An apple for Burroughs
Keep it a little restrained
Use a couple less consonants
There's something in my head
An egg of flame
Some oranges or who knows?
Let the platypus dive
Make it a little more excellent
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Pace The Donkey
01:39
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Been weeks on the road
Dirt road to Hamlinshire
Trudging in the dust
Skin turned to rust
We fear of going bust
We pace the donkey
We’ll get there God willing
On naught but three shillings
Scuffing on the road
Shouldering the load
Past the fields all plowed
We pace the donkey
Stubbornness
Is a virtue
With which we all dispense
We pace the donkey
We pay the rent
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Business Ferret
01:20
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Give him the business
Tear him apart
Show him the red flower
Rip out his heart
He’s crafty
He’s twitchy
Ferret of business
Watch the floor
See the glass ceiling
Behold as we call out
All the notions that matter
He’s crafty
He’s shifty
Ferret of business
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Labor Mole
01:31
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“I smell a rat”
The shop steward said
To all the gathered souls
Faces like holes
Dented Ricky’s fender
Didn’t leave a note
They tricked him
Into a spotlight
Resolute for the destitute
To make a determination
Draw out the pretender
Like that time some scofflaw
Dented Ricky’s fender
Didn’t leave a note
They tricked him
Into a spotlight
“The same surely applies”
Said the shop steward Dave
“To this labor mole of ours”
Labor mole
Burrowing under the union
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Sunglasses Snake (Again)
02:21
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You had me at “Let’s kill everybody”
Phil Spectrum
Behind the wheel and driving us crazy
Can you find crustaceans three?
Johnny Fingers says
“Let’s have calamari”
Your friend can take her sour grapes
And shove them up her ungrateful ass
Apathy’s the opposite of love
Babe I’ve got opposites in spades
There are some days I need to stay away
From the sunglasses and the fire snake
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The Bear Whisperer
00:44
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When I go outside
I see the gray sky
See a bear
Running down the street
Hey you’re in the way
Of the bear whisperer
We’ll see what he says
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Whale Gam
02:41
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“Time was you could pick ’em up and put ’em down
In all the various neighborhoods of town”
But over time no one knows where that mischaracterization went
His predilections and intrinsic flaws left no forwarding address
Bounty hunters, bill collectors
Gathered and leaned into the
Vapor of his scent
And man alive!
It was just like he never left
He was partial to three slams after work
The engine and a pair of sidecars
He was endlessly fond of whale gam
Lifting up the skirt
Putting down the fingers of desire
Harpoons and whale gams
Blowholes and battering rams
Blubbering mouth
Return to sender
Candlewax
Stench of the render
And his pickled associates ...
“Back then you could find them out and hedge them in
In all the conclaves north of Wales
In dark wainscotted rooms we bled the tunes
Out of Whalin’ Jennings”
He spoke the lies through a fan that
Oscillated them and ran
Endlessly to the void of infinity
Where tax collectors loom
He insisted on whale gams
On weekends
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Sawt Lion
02:25
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I sawt lion over there
Behind wilting transients
Your eyes are better than your ears
I sawt lion over there
Beyond the college in the woods
Music makes the life slide by
Easier
When you’re consulting with the unseen
Owners of bad orchards
Freaky Pete, Grampa Croost and Professor Phone
“Save it for the air”
He said to placate
The slo-mo sapien
And there’s just no going back
To the Moosewood
I sawt lion in the ditch
Like an iceberg of decay
They don’t want your blood
They only want your soc
I sawt lion over there
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Trip Dotterel
02:03
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Flap flap
Blap plap
Feathers plucked
Quills inked anew
It’s a new age
Trip Dotterel
Gone and here
There never
Slip slap
Selfish motive
Lit the votive
Pens dipped into
It’s a bygone song
Trip Dotterel
Never here
Gone forever
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Parrots Of Pandemonium
02:16
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Limbo is the first circle
Inferno of the pagans
Idolaters and the seven virtues
Declaim for Julius Caesar
Just lust, the second circle
Blown violently west
Licking the flesh of thigh
But you’re not the guy
Eat and drink deep for gluttony
The third circle of hegemony
Demon lords distressed
In the circle of greed
You’ll get what you need
Stand at the entrance to Dis
The city of brass
The tower of iron
The flying staircase to iniquity
Now we come to Pandemonium
Where every parrot quips
Like a little child
Like an angel
So creamlike and mild
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Cete Badgers
01:41
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It’s not the fur nor the teeth
But rather what’s beneath
Sure to get
Your attention
Claws retractable
Attitude implacable
Rip and tear in the sheath
Digging the furrow beneath
Like Edward R. Murrow
Ran the bureau
Hollowing out
The burrow
It’s your choice to make
Cete badgers don’t wait
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Backyard Lagamorphs
02:14
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Bollocks for frolics
Jumping over
Chewing on clover
Backyard lagamorphs
Undershed bunnies
Greeting their honies
Throw in the towel
There’s a fox on the prowl
Backyard grass
Fenced-in lagamorphs
In strong tea to steep us
There goes the lepus
Ears erect, a-quiver
Whiskers twitch and deliver
Scent of the heat
Spring can be sweet
For backyard lagamorphs
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Lizard's Wizard's Tower
01:45
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When I climb up the steps
I see the Lizard Wizard
Ready to snake me through
With his hands made of darkness
Try to not fall and die
Like my friend who sat and cried
Through the party down below
That’s where we all want to go
Prevented by the lizard
Also a man-sized wizard
Yeah!
It’s a party down below
Humans never get to know
Creatures of all kinds are there
No excuse not to stare
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Apelike Shrewdness
01:12
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Note how the ape
Caresses his chin
Like a man in thought
Is wont to do
See how the ape
Exudes a manlike shrewdness
Joins into a band
To trade in feelings
Shrewdness of apes
Arrayed in the trees
Venn diagrams of influence
And intransigence
Multiultoccasional
For the tributary
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Snails in the Hood
02:50
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Profiles are tedious
But with the right document
You can do anything even
A drunken Dremell cut
On the third Thursday
Of my troubled childhood
Possessions are a liability and
Cables are always an issue but
Penry always knows where to party
Where libations are good
With snails in the hood
Penry always knows where to get dead
Where transactions are good
With snails in the hood
Meet me deep in the platonic
Realms of supposition
Hit me with your rendition
Just be a dear
And make it good
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Animal Squatters
02:28
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Do me a solid
Get me a liquid
Attack it with gusto
Glistening, pinguid
Bourbon and eggs
For the crosshairs trollop
Sequel to the sequel:
Both of those guys got cancer
Clam cutters
Animal squatters
It’s a means of control
A shadowless analysis
Atomic mom
Rosetta stoner
It’s a means of control
A rudderless catastrophe
It’s corpses from here to the next rise
An army, a legion of thoroughly dead flies
For better eggs
For part-time wizards
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Scads of scallops
Pinions of shrimps
Muscular mussels
Krill smoothie
Seaweed sorbet
Chocolate salmon crisp
Sea bass mint
Tuna aperatif
But for an entreé
For the main event
Will you risk the lobster?
Will you risk the lobster, old man?
After-dinner distress
Post-prandial death
Why’d you risk it all?
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Seahorse Cowboy
01:30
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You cowboy up
Lookin’ sharp
Rocking the brim
Breathing brine
Whipping waves like a
Seahorse cowboy
Constrained by the reins
Perhaps
But conjoined by the twins
Relatably
Back in the saddle
Out to the coral reef
In search of the twins
They should’a come back again
But they’s lost
So we’re the searchers
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Cobra In My Quiver
01:36
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His hood was removed
Moments after birth
Come witness its worth
Come hither
As I stand and deliver
Cobra in my quiver
Break the seal
Stand and fight
Deadly asp
Taking flight
Pointing north
Like a lodestone
A flash of movement
Toward your garden
Discount fauna
Exotic flora
Python in my aura
Dispense with drama
You could be my Anaconda mama
Cobra in my quiver
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Up with the birds
Quarter gone and half-dead
Awake and worn through
Soul shot full of holes
One step removed from
Corporeal
It’s loud
Up in these clouds
The fowl are proud
Making nests of our thorny halos
The hummingbird in my breast
Suspended in my death
Upending my quest
To get ever higher
I’m no nirvana frequent flyer
My rejection of his word
The god of all birds
A craw full of blasphemy
That’s what landed me
In flock-marked clouds
Up with the birds
Quarter gone and half-dead
Insomnia afterlife
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