Palmettos​/​Ergot Vaporetto​/​Our Mellifluous Organ

from Hardships on the Loose Coast by James Goode

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Ergot Vaporetto
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Ergot vaporetto
Across
The tumescent lagoon
Wet cobblestone
Hot glass is blown
And brass
Tarnishes too soon

Ergot vaporetto
I’ll be wearing a manganese vest
It can be difficult to navigate
This vertiginous burlesque

Ergot vaporetto
Adenoids and rust
Useless pillow
Open face molds
Stagnant, volcanic
Glazed
In a Dutch mustard yellow

Ergot vaporetto
All around us
The city is crumbling
The streets
Inexorably sinking
The sewers
Sucking and mumbling

Run your fingers along the arsenal wall
Handfuls of warm, brown salt crystals fall
Run your fingers along the arsenal wall
Handfuls of warm, brown salt crystals fall

Ergot vaporetto
Penecillium Roquefort
Cheese growths in feedback
Seaweeds creep upon the outer bank
Spread the canal
Unlock and breach the flank

Run your fingers along the arsenal wall
Handfuls of warm, brown salt crystals fall
Run your fingers along the arsenal wall
Handfuls of warm, brown salt crystals fall




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Our Mellifluous Organ
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This pale façade conceals myriad secrets
Its convolutions cannot be undone
Hydraulics siphoning oil to the surface
Between the layers, they sandwich the sun

The spurts of growth are explosive, dynamic
Eyes glimpse the movement with fishbowl effect
In every corner, repeating the pattern
The circulation’s the largest one yet

Our mellifluous organ
Spills not a drop
Fauna!
Flora!
How do you make this thing stop?

Proprioceptive and tactile
Rapidly swelling with pride
The volume can’t measure
The transient pressure
And fill up the spaces inside

Proprioceptive and tactile
Rapidly swelling with pride
The volume can’t measure
The transient pressure
And fill up the spaces inside

Contrary to what you might expect
Inner sanctum to mitigate the bends
Here, nitrogen is added to your soil
To wick the oil upon which we depend

Our mellifluous organ
Spills not a drop
Fauna!
Flora!
How do you make this thing stop?

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from Hardships on the Loose Coast, released March 4, 2021
James Goode: vocals, keyboards, bass, guitar, tapes, drum programming
Thomas Scandura: drums (Our Mellifluous Organ)

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James Goode Berkeley, California

James Goode has performed and/or recorded with John Dieterich, Shelley Hirsch, Bill Horist, Bär McKinnon, Roger Powell, Greg Saunier, Ches Smith, Trey Spruance, Gregg Turkington, William Winant, and many others. Since 1992, he’s worked with Coalinga group Faxed Head (as "Fifth Head"), adding extreme tape manipulations and electronics to their already over-the-top sound. ... more

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