on this abandoned roof or pagoda stool they place you & you hear voices saying things like "titen 'in up Joe-keep 'm titened up" & then Orion looking evil & he wipes you off & keeps you clean & Familiar Face himself "i heard you been eating some eggs? any truth to that?" & Orion licking his flesh & trouble in mind blues & shades of fire hydrants..... YOU-the fire hydrant & Beau Geste, a fire hydrant-failures completely & walking to Gibraltar & trying to find your energy-get your kicks & shadow box your language...Faust from the garden-Emancipation Anne, who looks like a hungarian deer & Chump with a brain like a iceberg all imitating Africa ... Dead Lover who hitchhikes & brags & says he's going to Carthage & he keeps repeating "when i die" but then his mind goes black & blue & Methodist butter erupting & Twinkle Clown with arabic lettering on his forehead wanting everybody to experience his fright "you must experience my fright to be my friend! " so says he to Lucy Tunia, whose vegetarian legs shine like mahogany & who comforts Twinkle Clown in his fits when he has no harem ...Zing & Orion stutters & coughs & SHAZAMMM-the opium ghost neath the ferris wheel on the side of the highway-where nobody can stop-where he can cause no trouble-where the show must go on ...this is where He wishes to die-He wishes to die in the midst of cathedral bells-He wishes to die when the tornadoes strike the roofs & stools "so much for death" he will say when he dies