From:
slider@anashram.com
### - a lone tumbleweed rolls & blows through a now long deserted
shantytown
time feels suspended as the wind rises and falls...
whistling through streets now long cast in shadows
voices of ghosts rising and falling with the wind...
and then this feint song...
It twas on a good ship called the Venus
And by-gawd you should've just seen us!
Its figure-head was this dude flat in bed
With a knot tied right in his penis!
Now the first-mate's name was 'ole chriso
who one-time forgot he's a wizzo'
But when the going got tough
He just never gave up
An' now everyone knows he's the bizzo!
In the galley EE and Robotica
Cooked the food we all know is right good-for-ya'
They weren't feisty or mean
And they kept the place clean
On their brooms as they laughed at the lot o' ya
Now the cap'ins real name was 'ole slider
He had eight arms and legs like a spider
But he liked to have fun
And boy geeze could he run!
It's as though he were built like a glider
In the crow's-nest above sits old wild-wings
Who's so high everyday that she... just sings
Of the much warmer clime'
In a far distant time
And of numerable, various, high-things
Now some 'fool' who was feeling the call
Had this hexhonodronical ball
But the cube of its weight
Plus his chopper times eight
Was three fifths of five eighths of fuck-all!
At the front on the prow sat Goofiche
who was reading Confucius and Nietzche
with one finger held high
he consulted the sky
and all he would say was "he-he hee!"
And the 'crow' (who was flying ahead)
Saw some rocks in the distance and said
"Look alive down below!
Or to hell we'll all go
Instead of our nice feathered beds!"
Then 'Dan' said, "it's all "heaven-sent!
And you all know that sex is 'my' bent
But he guessed there'd be trouble
When he shagged his own double
And instead of cumming... he went! :)
And as the sun on set that first day
And the sight of their homes slipped away
Well they sat down to supper
And roasted the skipper
They were all glad to be on their way
In the night there was sounded a bell
As the crew slept quite calmer and well
And they dreamed of their notion
To cross the great ocean
Avoiding the pitfalls of hell
Then a tiger appeared on the scene
And proceeded to lick the deck clean!
Rainbowbird stood there ready
Her broom held up steady
But relax, cawed the crow... it's a dream
Then we all smiled relieved he was right
And the Venus ploughed into the night
A ship full of schemers
And marvellous dreamers
Their tiger now burning so bright
With the dawn came a wonderful breeze
And they crossed the equator with ease
Sailing-on into morning
They thought of their calling
And the people back home on their knees
Tis' a wonderful life sang 'ole 'bob'
(As he munched a small corn on the cob)
For it's surely much better
To live without fetters
Or the sounds of the maddening mob
Yes your right! sang the crew in-accord
This is better than being... so bored!
For it... be-fits-our-dig-nity
To ex-plore-infin-ity
And together they heartily roared!
Now once when a storm set to blowin'
Darth wayne and Pete ross got to 'going'
As they wrestled and spat
Someone pissed on the 'Cat'
Who was hangin' around and 'Meee' ow-in'
So now 'bobby' was also along
And he whispered and sang his old song
But the crew stayed well-clear
Of its 'I's' and its 'fear'
And Goofichi kept ringing his gong
Then one morning as chriso awoke
He told us a dream of great note
In his flying quite high
He'd espied a 'great lie'
(All the crew held their breath as he spoke)
He had dreamed a great palace of gold
Built on sand and not rock 'as been told
And he'd watched it go down
Plus seen everyone drown
There were tears in his eyes as he spoke
On the deck of the Venus he'd dreamed
That the world all-around us is 'schemed'
Then before his grey eyes
"The deck's vanished!" he cried
"We're all walking on water it seems!"
For no Venus was there to be found
Just a gaping great hole in the ground
And above 'that' it seems
Is the place we all dream
Called the 'world' with its content and sound
So there's no need to fear one might die
For the world is ITSELF a great lie!
A great ship full of schemers
And marvellous dreamers
And above the great void we ALL fly!
So the Venus ploughed-on as before
T'ords a huge and incredible door
And they managed it still
Now by force of sheer will
To the gateway to freedom of yore
And of many adventures, i'm told
This brave crew who were strong and so bold
That i'm not really swellin'
But there ain't time for tellin'
Of all of their stories of gold
so.......
Late one evening they all felt the strain
Of a strange vibe again and again
And they knew without thinking
That something was coming
Twas a feeling that bordered on pain
Then the Cap'in his arms all a-whirl
Gave a shout that would make your blood curl
And without hesitation
No pre-meditation
They sailed off the edge of the world!
With a great crack of lightening they saw
A great huge and 'unreasonable' door
There it stood without motion
In the midst of an ocean
Twas the gateway to freedom of 'yore
Then with all of their sails full-unfurled
Off and into the dark-void they hurled
Way off into the south
Past a gaping great mouth
And then sailed through the crack in the world.
Now this legend will never be old
For it tells of the brave and the bold
Of their struggle together
To live life... forever!
The full-story can never be told.
--by slider 2004 or thereabouts :)
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