Bloody smoke 
Foggy smoke 
Beginnings and endings... 
There's a heart of the world 
In the bowed bony Burren 
There's a trip-hole to her heart 
In soaring SnÔfellsness 
And the crack of the world 
The moist ruddy lips of her 
Thee slit of the mother fallen 
Sliced from the stars 
By the slicing discus 
At Kamarupa 
At Kamarupa 
At Kamarupa 

From her mouth at the end 
Of the worlds 
From her mouth at the end 
Of the times 
The shapes that form the ends 
Of the wheelings 
The forces that shape the forms 
Of the breaths 
That cover the clouds 
Of the green world's last dancing's 
Flicker forth like spring-heeled jackals 
All laughing and bloody and wrathful 
And peaceful and shining and pallid 
And burning and liquid and sadness 
And joy 
And joy 

(Mansour is smiling teethly at the stars 
John sits on the stairs with me 
His eyes are shining - 
Mother - come to me) 

Little lovely licking tongues of fire 
Smiling and slyly emerge from the stones 
The air is now very very viscous 
In the distance Sunday children play pipes 
The air is now very violent 
Birds do not fill the air 
Laughing does not fill the air 
No bodies fill the air 
But the sun filters slowly through the air 
As if it has turned to sticky sweet mud 
All flowers die 
Except for some few 
A chain of burning bloody flowers 
Follow my eyes crying tears 

(Lilith is smiling at the corpse of a cow 
And in that corpsey cow 
The corpse of another 
And so on and so on 
And perhaps forever 
If times were not folding and falling 
Over each other 
And so on and so on and so on 
And certainly endless) 

Mene mene tekel upharsin 
We have been weighed and lost 
We have been weighed and lost 

(I slept I dreamt I dreamed a dream: 
London bright fires smiling and burning 
Light roads road through the starlacked night 
Many dark suns are falling falling down 
London Bridge is destroyed) 

In my mind pigs and rubble gnaw 
In the dark heights and hearts of Albion 
Shudderings in the heart 
Cruelty in the heart 
And this is over 
All over now 
In Kamarupa 
In Kamarupa 

My eyes my mind spinning 
Spinning back and forth 
Eyes in London 
Mind in a hole 
Oh they come they come 
They run out 
Fleeing from what 
They come out running 
Running 
Great Babylon has fallen fallen fallen 
Jerusalem has fallen fallen fallen 
The great great beast 
Is dead dead dead dead 
Simon, Simon is dead dead dead dead 
And some other bleeding children 
Are smiling 
They're dead in the rubble 
They're dead dead dead dead 
And Mercury rises 
And Mercury falls 
And how dead dead dead dead 
Dead dead are you 
Summertime 
When the living is easy 
Summertime 
When the dying is easy 
The world shudders on 
Black tree against a bruised blue sky 
The fairground is all shabby and silent 
Red sky at night 
Red sky at night 
Danger 
Christ is crying 
Christ's tears leaving 
His heart and night 
All the many faces we have worn 
All the many faces we have borne 
And dead dead dead dead dead dead 
Dead dead dead dead dead are we 

Though once I thought 
Oh once I read 
The hidden god plays hide and seek 
Whilst others still run from him 
From the world's stomach 
The goddies emerge 
And who comes to judge us 
And who comes to push us 
The bloody master 
Is bloody dead dead dead 
And who comes to strike us 
And who comes to hold us 
Where is his colour 
Where is her cover 
And What is her nature 
And where does he shine from 

(Broken birds move through the air - 
They all drink blood) 

When Christ smiles his smile is broken 
Holly ivy old dead trees 
Dead dead dead 
Holy and ivy dead dead dead dead 
Dead dead dead dead 
Dead dead dead dead 
Rainbow lovely arc lovely lights 
Dead dead dead dead 
Horn stag cross meets hunter 
Dead dead dead dead 

(Oh Saint Eustace ora pro nobis) 

Old woman old woman old woman 
Old and dead dead dead dead 
Now no summers left 
This side of boxwood 
Crosses broken in my midsummer 
The south is dying 
The north is dying 
The west is dying 
The east is dying 
There are four corners to the world she said 
And every one 
Is dead dead dead dead 
Dead dead dead dead 
Dead dead dead dead dead 
Dead dead dead dead 
Dead dead dead dead dead 
And all the planets 
They're dead dead dead dead 
And all my heart 
Is dead dead dead dead 
Dead dead dead dead dead dead dead 
Dead dead dead dead dead dead dead 
It's all dead dead dead