The trumpeter brazenly flashes the tarnished brass While Velcro'ed against the red bricks and mortar Amidst the ivories, taunt skins, and sticks An invisible man wearing smudged spectacles Plucks his scarred upright bass amply heard Above th...

"FOR BITTEN LIPS AND SUBTLE SLIPS OF SWOLLEN TONGUES ARE SOLACED BY OIL AND WINE, AND BY SOIL AND LOAM" MIDLAND