cover collage walter beckers copyright 2001 the 22 year old cassius ...

SKY COULD BE CLEAR SINCE NO ISLAND IS NO LONGER
AN ISLAND AS EVERYBODY USES MOBILE PHONES WE
ARE FULLY AWARE THAT LIFE HAS BECOME ELECTRONIC
BUT WHAT DO WE IMAGINE WHEN SUDDENLY NOTHING
LEFT SEEMS IDYLLIC AS AT 1.47 AM I HAVE BEEN
SLAMMED BY A 6.7 MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE TO AWAKE
IN A DESTROYED TOKYO AMIDST THOUSANDS OF DEATHS
BUT THE EXACT NUMBER OF VICTIMS WE WILL NEVER
KNOW AS THE OFFICIALS DO NOT WANT IT TO BE TOLD
ON TELEVISION WHICH ALERTS MY DOUBTS SINCE YOUR
HEADLAMPS BEAM IN MY OBSERVING EARS INTERFERE
ON YOUR TACHO & SPEEDOMETER YOU NO LONGER
HAVE ANY FUNCTION BECAUSE THE ENEMY'S TERRITORY
IS ALREADY UNDER CONTROL WHEN MY ARMY STARTS
KILLING THE ARRIVING REFUGEES TRAPPED AS RATS
DELIRIOUSLY RUNNING AWAY INTO THE BLESSED HILLS
FAR AWAY FROM COMMUNIST-STALAGS WHERE
EXHAUSTED NUMBERS CRY FEARFULLY AS NONE OF
THESE HUNGRY POOR SEEM ABLE TO OVERCOME WE
MUST LYNCH THE IGNOBLE PEACEKEEPERS WHO HAVE
FORGOTTEN THE MOST ELEMENTARY RULES OF HELP I
MEAN BREAD WATER CONDOMS WHILE ELEGANT
COMMANDOS ON THE TARMAC KEEP VIOLATING
PAKISTAN WOMEN SMOKING AMIDST CLOUDS OF
MARIHUANA ALL BLUE SMOKE AND NO PRESS AROUND
NOBODY IS TO BLAME BUT THE AWFUL HUMILIATION HAS
BEEN FILMED BY ANNIE LENNOX WHO NEVER SAID SHE
LOVED MEDUSA STILL HIDING THAT COMPROMISING
VIDEO OF UNITED NATIONS TROOPS MASTURBATING IN
THE ABANDONED STREETS OF SOHO MORE OBSCENE
THAN ARROGANT SUPER VULGAR MAX STUPID POLISH
DRUNK A TOTAL OUTBURST OF MURDEROUS BULLETS A
BLOODY ORGASM OF MILITARY SPERM LEAVING NO
BRAINS FOR THE UNIDENTIFIED GUNMEN BUT IN THE
UNOFFICIAL REPORT IT IS SAID THEY HAVE HAD NO
NAMES RECEIVED NO ORDERS HAVE NO ADEQUATE
SKILLS BUT EXPOSE LOTS OF X-FILMS "A DISCRÉTION"
COMME DISAIT LE CHEF DE LA COLOMBE D'OR WITH
BLEEDING DICKS & VULVAS ON THE TABLE NEXT TO
BROKEN PERRIER & HEIDSICK BOTTLES OF WHICH ONE
SHARP PIECE CUTS MY LEFT HAND JUST ABOVE MY
ROLEX WHICH MAKES ME LOOK AT MY TOPAZ RING EX
LOUIS XV FULL PART OF MY FAMILY HISTORY EARLY
MORNING ON MY MIND A TERRITORY OF INDEPENDENT
DEPENDENCE I REVIEW IN WHITE SHEETS MY
AFFIRMATION OF EXISTENCE AFTER I EAT MY CHEESE
SANDWICH IT MUST BE SOME SEVEN YEARS AGO WE
LAST WERE HERE IN SAINT TROPEZ BEING ON ORBIT ALL
THREE OF US ENCHANTED BY FRIED SARDINES &
FAMILIAR POINTILLISTS BUT AGAIN MY MIND IS ZOOMING
OUT I CANNOT CONTROL AS I AM ALREADY ON MY
MENTAL WAY TO KOKSYDE AT THE NORTH SEA TO BE
EXCITED BY IODINE & SEAWEED ON THE WIDE BEACH
FOR ME THE EXACT TERMINOLOGY TO SITUATE THE
MASTERPIECES PAINTED AS NEVER BREATHING
ANDROGYNE REVELATIONS INFLUENCED BY
FISHERMEN'S STENOGRAPHERS AT THE MARKETPLACE
AND ROMAN EMPERORS CUT INTO GRAVEL UNAWARE OF
BEING PASSENGERS IN THE NEVER MOVING TRAINS
PRINTED BY PAUL DELVAUX IN BRABANÇONNE FOREST
DETAILS I REMEMBER WHEN THE ARTIST WAS
EXPLAINING TO ME WHILE WALKING AROUND HIS VEURNE
OLD VILLAGE TELLING ME HOW HE STILL COULD
CONTROL HIS STROKE NOT AT ALL CONDITIONED BY HIS
DETERIORATING SIGHT HE COMPARED TO THE UNLIMITED
ZONE IN WHICH HE FELT FREE TO SLACKEN THE IDEA OF
HIS UNDRESSED SLEEPWALKING MUSES HE SAID NEVER
WERE NAKED COVERED WITH A WHITE MOULD AMIDST