Black Ships Were Sinking Into Idumea

I have dug a cradle as red as dung

And the dragonfly answers back

Hello monkey-paw!

Heartfaced Messiah

Cradles of bark burn outwards

The sunspider sleeps with a face so cosy warm

The fire in my belly is oh so sleepy warm

With chocolates and mountains

And mother and pearl

And Peachface so lovely

Crows play zithers and neuter the streams

And Black Ships are nothing but the transfers of pussies

And Black Ships were stinking whilst the drum-rolls were sinking

In maggots and cabbage

Oh Cosmic Shirley Temple

In your ecstatic church appears twilight

Your ringlets are purring

And burred by buds of frost

And damp stars crackle

Damp stars

Such beauty everywhere, and me as blind as Jack Corn Crow-Face

I guide Black Ships home to their Polar Sodom

Take Black Ships from the sky and eat their prows

Each bird sings over their burnings

We all watch copper couplings by the lovely streams

And all the Gospels are true

And all the words wing true

Replace red stars with real God eyes so red

So the road never blinks

And shut when we leave leaving sheets

Lazarus! Lazarus! Oh type of us all!

The lost the forsaken the dead

Maranatha

Edakrusen ho Iesous

And shut the night shut and hot butter dreams in my mouth

They're a sweet so sharp they marshal teeth of gnats from railways

And If I make no sense to you, well I make no sense to me

The dreams I have are sticky as dreams

That leave trails of words that mean churches fall

If I have a face, well I am sick of its skin

It's pink like plastic and my smile is unreal

It's the froth of excuses

And I was dead long ago

And now walk in file with my lies

David Michael

Batu Gajah

And elephant frame

Where my mother shoots me out with bloodfalls

And I am tied to my past with a string of skin

And I am camel-necked

And crippled by the dross I built for you

And I am Black Ship

And I am Black Ship

And I made them all rise

And I kill sheep with piratical mirth

And Black Ship time makes me crave

To steal faces from the galaxy

I crave faces from the galaxy

I'll kill faces from the galaxy

And am I born to die

And lay this body down?

And as my trembling spirits fly

Into a world unknown

A land of deeper shade

Unpierced by human thought

The dreary region of the dead

Where all things are forgot

Soon as from earth I go

What will become of me?

Eternal happiness or woe

Must then my fortune be

Waked by the trumpet's sound

I from my grave shall rise

And see the Judge with glory crowned

And see the flaming skies