Highway 61 Revisited (Liner Notes)
On the slow train time does not interfere & at the Arabian
crossing waits White Heap, the man from the newspaper & behind
him the hundred Inevitables made of solid rock & stone -- the
Cream Judge & the Clown -- the doll house where Savage Rose &
Fixable live simply in their wild animal luxury ... Autumn, with
two zeros above her nose arguing over the sun being dark or Bach
is as famous as its commotion & that she herself -- not Orpheus --
is the logical poet "I am the logical poet!" she screams
"Spring? Spring is only the beginning!" she attempts to make
Cream Judge jealous by telling him of down-to-earth people &
while the universe is erupting, she points to the slow train &
prays for rain & time to interfere -- she is not extremely
fat but rather progressively unhappy ... the hundred Inevitables
hide their predictions & go to bars & drink & get drunk in their
very special conscious way & when tom dooley, the kind of person
you think you've seen before, comes strolling in with White Heap,
the hundred Inevitables all say "who's that man who looks so
white?" & the bartender, a good boy & one who keeps a buffalo
in his mind, says "I don't know, but I'm sure I've seen the
other fellow someplace" & when Paul Sargent, a plainclothes man
from 4th street, comes in at three in the morning & busts
everybody for being incredible, nobody really gets angry -- just
a little illiterate most people get & Rome, one of the hundred
Inevitables whispers "I told you so" to Madam John ... Savage Rose
& Fixable are bravely blowing kisses to the Jade Hexagram --
Carnaby Street & to all the mysterious juveniles & the Cream Judge
is writing a book on the true meaning of the pear -- last year,
he wrote one on famous dogs of the civil war & now he has false
teeth & no children ... when the Cream met Savage Rose & Fixable,
he was introduced to them by none other than Lifelessness --
Lifelessness is the Great Enemy & always wears a hip guard --
he is very hipguard -- Lifelessness said when introducing everybody
"go save the world" & "involvement! that's the issue" & things
like that & Savage Rose winked at Fixable & the Cream went off
with his arm in a sling singing "summertime & the living is easy"
... the Clown appears -- puts a gag over Autumn's mouth & says
"there are two kinds of people -- simple people & normal people"
this usually gets a big laugh from the sandpit & White Heap
sneezes -- passes out & rips open Autumn's gag & says "What do
you mean you're Autumn and without you there'd be no spring! you
fool! without spring, there'd be no you! what do you think of
that??" then Savage Rose & Fixable come by & kick him in the
brains & color him pink for being a phony philosopher -- then the
Clown comes by and screams "You phony philosopher!" & jumps on
his head -- Paul Sargent comes by again in an umpire's suit &
some college kid who's read all about Nietzsche comes by & says
"Nietzsche never wore an umpire's suit" & Paul says "You wanna
buy some clothes, kid?" & then Rome & John come out of the bar
& they're going up to Harlem ... we are singing today of the
WIPEOUT GANG -- the WIPEOUT GANG buys, owns & operates the
Insanity Factory -- if you do not know where the Insanity Factory is located,
you should hereby take two steps to the right, paint your teeth
& go to sleep ... the songs on this specific record are not so
much songs but rather exercises in tonal breath control ... the
subject matter -- though meaningless as it is -- has something to do with
the beautiful strangers ... the beautiful strangers, Vivaldi's
green jacket & the holy slow train
you are right john cohen -- quazimodo was right -- mozart was right
... I cannot say the word eye anymore ... when I speak this word
eye, it is as if I am speaking of somebody's eye that I faintly
remember ... there is no eye -- there is only a series of mouths --
long live the mouths -- your rooftop -- if you don't already know --
has been demolished ... eye is plasma & you are right about that
too -- you are lucky -- you don't have to think about such things as
eyes & rooftops & quazimodo. |
