1. Darwinian Beasts

Here lie the beasts
They are Darwin's defeat

Scaling this strange hill
And down below they see for miles the final show
Aether's final afterglow

2. Incense Swirls

I leave behind my carbon print
As it is tucked between these waves
Now my limbs will bridge the seas
And pierce the center of the stage
A little box on mindless rocks that rumble
Unwelcome host so quaint
Incense swirls and it reveals the cascadin'
Cascading Saturn's rain

My bones of rust, my blood of dust are swimming
Diving in its fall
Stars sing to me, oblige I will conduct their din
Their din to song
One red, one dead, the blue so cruel
All the marbles take their place
In this vast expanse of symphonies
That Saturn and I create

My marbles I will not keep safe
They will rotate so far away
On Saturn's incense high I will retire
On Saturn's incense high...
Spinning on their own accord
Their brightest light, one tiny dot
I cannot fathom even on Saturn's
Saturn's incense high...

My bones of rust, my blood of dust are swimming
Diving in its fall
Stars sing to me, oblige I will conduct their din
Their din to song
One red, one dead, the blue so cruel
All the marbles take their place
In this vast expanse of symphonies
That Saturn and I create

3. Alien Lip Reading

Steps spirals 'round pulsing veins
Lend a view to a body, frail
Threading over the fading clock of God
Eternal springs the child of awe

Lip-read the black
On an alien heartland
We are fractals in need
The children unmask stars from their mass
Grant us the means to alien lip-read

Drop a pebble in this silvery pond
The mind ripples to an acid world
Kaleidoscope-like and miracle-bound
Speaks in tongues of unknown sound

Lip-read the dark
In this alien heart pulp
On fractals we built
The Devil will part
All flesh from its mass
So galaxies feed as we alien lip-read

Lip-read the dark
In this alien heart pulp
Where children play
Making gods out of hay
Devils to be
Both soothing me
As I alien lip-read

4. Crossroads

Their diamond vertebrae spin
Emitting a quantum grin
Do these mammals dream?
In currents, synapses breed
Half-alive or half-asleep
The children link... crossroads

Crossroads of vibrant light
In currents, synapses breed

Manifolds
Through the lens come into sight
(Half-alive or half-asleep)
A velvet god
Sketching Eden in reverse

Crossroads (crossroads)
Of vibrant light (of vibrant light)
Crossroads (crossroads)
Multiplying (multiplying)

On and on their coffins float!
Like atoms upon the crossroads
Of breath and spine (round and round)
Round and round, they won't let grow
Some eager hands will choose to glow
While others fade (others fade)

Manifolds
Through the lens come into sight
(A velvet god sketching)
A velvet god
Sketching Eden in reverse

Crossroads of vibrant light
Crossroads multiplying
Crossroads (crossroads)
Of vibrant light (of vibrant light)
Crossroads (crossroads)
Multiplying (multiplying)

Crossroads multiplying...

5. The Devil's Blind Spot

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6. The First Ape On New Earth

The first ape soon will take a knee and pledge his will to soil
Then he will erect his temples to defy this coil
And once up high, he'll dread the sky and long for land's embrace

It all began with flowers
With leaves both sharp and round
A simian Mephistopheles
A Promethean still bound

The first ape on new Earth will wade through fields of glass
Some reflect his lips, others contain the stars in double-helix shards
The first State will draw breath in rhyming pantomime
The rose blades dance in time

He forges now a chain so cruel and names it's every link
After the astronomers, the wormholes and doctrines
Cast 'round the Moon, then 'round the Sun but never long enough
Knife flowers bloom in daggers with poison-coated tips
Our simian Mephistopheles
Holds two in every grip

The first ape on new Earth will wade through fields of glass
Some reflect his lips, others contain the stars in double-helix shards

Terrified and in mid-flight, his test-tube feathers crack
Raining down tar-like religions and sulphuric art
And there up high he'll try to shine but never bright enough

Dagger tips to rosary beads in his celestial noose
Our simian Mephistopheles
A Promethean so coarse

The first ape on new Earth
Now wishes he were last
He's finally shed his skin and he has fashioned wings
That just as soon he'd clip

The last ape in the seas
Is a god that knows no bound

The last ape in the seas
Yet grows weak at the knees
When his mind breaks new ground

7. Automata 1980

Flowing thick the rivers bleed, erupt into the void
The yearning seas, grim and oblique, denounce their vapid toy
Lava will shape this sparking dead abode
The gnawing black, the knowing dark will map out all the code

The frames ahead that loom in dread like blades sever the cord
Their concave teeth will fold beneath the path of mercury
None will paint this sinewy abode
A canvas stark for spectral art, he knows

None will paint this sinewy abode
The blood fantastic flowing waters its remains

Blood will turn to mercury on its path to avarice and glide
Sands will turn to mercury so time can poison everything and die