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Spontaneous Conversation of a Split Personality  (March 2005)
Thursday and friday afternoons.
What happened to the morning in july ?
Ace left that morning.
Ace was a communist.
Unusual,but a communist all the same.
All communist unusuals are equal.
I remember seeing them running around,
covered by the thoughts of giant cabbages.
I peered from the back of the caterpillar express !
Don't change now,slow it down.
Yes,sunny thursday and friday afternoons,
No signs of rain,no signs of the morning in july.
Forget july ! Just thursday and friday afternoons !
Should I cast love aside and whistle Dixie in the sunshine ?
The back projection ! It's not working ! Orange alert ! Orange alert !
Don't panic,don't panic, be calm, be calm.
Ok ,ok. Pink alert ! Pink alert !
Science help me, I've lost thursday and friday mornings !
Go to hell,do not pass limbo,do not collect lost souls.
Souls are not lost,they are in Memphis.
Oh, well,have a community chest.
I am not a game,I am me,I am real !
Impossible ,you are not even an unusual.
Thursday and friday were sunny, don't make it rain.
But the sky is getting darker and darker.
The sun still shines,only minds are black.
Ace was black.
Ace was unloved, he was unloved and black.
Should we whitewash the coal ?
Will we then love the coal ? surely not.
Discrimination is wrong,slow it down.
Paint it yellow,paint it green,it is still black.
The handsome mechanic still dozes,and his hands are black.
There were ten black Aces standing on the wall !
On the thursday or the friday?
Perhaps the morning in July.
I don't like july,in july I see wellingtons filled with blood.
Close your eyes,think of Rembrandt.
Impossible ! Ace wore wellingtons !
Ace was a communist,Ace was red to the core.
Ace was a victim of powers beyond his control.
I need a drink,is there any water ?
It never rains on thurday or friday afternoons.
Ace used to drink on friday mornings.
Only if the phone rang in dischords.
Is there a chance? Are there any dischords left ?
Only if you play your Ace.
Who was Ace ? Was he important ?
He was dominant, sometimes life, sometimes death.
Help me from this abyss, Is there no sunshine ?
Thursday and friday afternoons.