08 February 2023

#8 - The Madcap Laughs

 ...I started off with a vague idea about relationships and ended up hitching a ride with Syd Barrett on Noah’s Ark. Nope, me neither…


Deciphering this thing called me and you

that fate has thrown together with such craft,

just add it up and multiply by two


Those motley contradictions that ensue

reorder ravelled patterns on a graph,

deciphering this thing called me and you


For everything that ran or swam or flew

is crowded onto one unlikely raft,

just add it up and multiply by two


As chaos blends a swift yet heady brew

and all the world diminishes by half,

deciphering this thing called me and you


While waters roll and winds blow through the blue

with echoes of the days the madcap laughed,

just add it up and multiply by two


Then raise an altar to a lonely crew,

compose an apt and ribald epitaph

deciphering this thing called me and you

just add it up and multiply by two



RJT




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