Latter Days Baroque

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Release Date: 2014-07-06

Label: TIBProd.

Latter Day Baroque
...with an appetite

Popped by the local
Fast Food joint
with that electric sign
reading APEIRON
stuck to the roof above

At the counter, eyeballing
the haggard old waitress
with the heavy jowls
I placed my order:

-A couple of those blind,
never-seen-before-things
from the Mariana Gap, please.
Add a squid
two spoons of sharkfin
and a hint of whatever grows
a bit below sea level...

- And above?

- Muskrat eye, make that two...
Three alligator eggs
and some Tiger tails

- Anything flying?

- One Bat, please,
but no "Condor Pasa" this time

- Going further out?

- Those stars look delicious,
throw in half a dozen

-Would that be all, Sir?

- Ah, put a few vegetables
and some salsa on top

- And how do you want it served?

- In a black hole
to take away.

Lyrics John Willy Kopperud.
Music Roar Borge and Geir Opdal