Roger's in the archive looking up casement   Martha's in the government digging up the basement   Rebel into representative for the voter   Shadow backhencher couldn't get a word in   Turned up anyway ... issues burning   All consuming ... drinks in the cabinet   Spent a lot of time just examining the building   drinks on the house? you must be joking   Corridors of power cuts toy telephone bills   Long time no see underneath the floorboard   Looking for the roots of the family treetops   Toe's in the water but you've only got ten.      Fingers in the eel pie poke around tip top   Tunnelling a wormhole Eartha Kitty catfish   Meadow brown peacock ... pupa-larva-caterpillar   Hibernate in winter of our discotheque no   End in sight .. more like a spiral ... coil   Or curler ... just unwinding ... very slowly   Revealing endless disappearing pipelines   Genuflecting ... bowing deeply ... it   Don't take a weathergirl to see where   The wind is blowing ... what the wind is bending      Isobars are opening ... sex to midnight   Cabinet shuffling homeward bound ... taking   A detour ... rendezvous do ... chapel in the valley   Of the blown up doll ... that's not Martha   Shunting in a siding ... she got homework   Up to here   Roger's in the footnotes up to his elbones   Verse and chapter disinterred   Borrowing a bookcase don't come easy   The weight of the evidence in parenthesis   Beggars tightly furled belief      Heads on blockabeater repetition on the line   Shell shock supertroopers ... whirl banking oil palm   Intercontinental drift ... over the rainbow   Over the sea to ska rocker skintone   hirsuit missed a link and that's not all   That he got missing inna thousand years of   Orthotoxic waste disposal ... god proposal   Jealous sky ... whatever is a girl to do   To break the service in its tried and tested   And found wanting state of oh! boy network   Stewardship?      Little Johnny Aardvark never hurt   Nobody ... Martha friend and Roger too   Tone down a little ... sotto voce ... some tall order   Given that four minutes seems eternity time   In the bushed up world of waspish Vsigns   A-sides sui-C-side salads of the bad young B-sides   What's the point of digging deeper just to lay   The ghost of Sala Hal-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub?      "Don't give up" the dead man cried   "There's more of us than there of you   Soon you'll all be on our side ... forever more or   Lester Young died ... 'Fat Girl' also ... blowing all the blues   Away side ... dust ain't just dust ... trust us like we   Live forever ... broken loose from greystone tether   Keep on tiptoe through the archive ... we are dead   But you are alive ... Martha yes and Roger too   Until you let the gringos grind you down"