The Crematorium & Aboard Tugboat London

The Crematorium

Dedicated to sepia Turners and
Empires of fading Fighting Temeraires

 Life…Floating just

 Tugged out of gold leaf frames on
yellowing Edwardian wallpaper

 The Fighting Temeraire

 Dedicated to generations who
hoped against hope she would never sink

 

Life…Black coal smoke

 

Life…I don’t need to be there

Too dreary and dismal the night 

And the daylight no longer feels quite right

 

Life…Seems that I’m swaying on my last legs

Have drunk down to the very last dregs

 

And the dregs they read you no future?

 

Life…The last sick synapse fires so little memory 

Never can it explain these sublime but twisted universes

 

Ommm…Life…Step back step back

 The synapse fires no memory of the screaming chemistry of these last thoughts

 

Life…It reads me no future

 Blink

 And I am gone

 

 Life…Black coal smoke

 

 Smut for John Constable

 

 The Fighting Temeraire

The stoker feeds the tugboat’s boiler with sawn up pieces of her masts

The
Crematorium

 ℗ © 2023 A-Soma, David F. Brandon, 2024

 Aboard Tugboat London

 The Jolly Joker

Face like a poker

The London’s stoker

 Nothing left for him to say

Nothing left for him

 On the dawn of this new Eocene

On the dawn of this new Eocene

 

The Jolly Joker

Face like a poker

The London’s stoker

 Nothing left for him to say

Nothing left for him

 On the dawn of this new Eocene

On the dawn of this new Eocene

 

 

 ℗ © A-Soma, David F. Brandon, 2024

 

Two tracks from “Jokers”, a concept album created in collaboration with A-Soma, a musical voyage from beginning to end, a work that navigates against the current…

“Jokers” can be purchased at Vinylora records in Vitoria-Gasteiz and online at… https://vinylora.com/?post_type=produ

                   Digital download at…https://a-somadavidfbrandon.bandcamp.com