Poppyskins

Song	Poppyskins
Artist	Current 93
Album	Aleph At Hallucinatory Mountain

	Poppyskins
	In the kindness of the playground
	Aleph unveiled his claws
	As Pazuzu scrolled into town
	Murderer Murderer Murderer
	Small of Destroyer and fierce in his poverty
	My back is broken by his teeth
	On the mountain I as He rested
	The streams bite into the rocks
	Fissures gleaming with transparent blood
	Water mimicking the temple
	Teeth shuddering in the ghostlike face
	Of the faminedeliverer
	The locustbringer Adam
	The poppyskins were the clothes on the skin
	Raw as wind
	Pink like jets
	Red like the Bibles drifting in the streets
	Folded leather Sebek
	Root ⲥⲃⲕ
	All the cuneiform all the clay face
	The wedges stuck in my heart
	And spelled:
	“The Murderer is here
	Cain is here, and brings strange graves
	And pens with poison
	The lands he hands to sheep or goats
	Clustered on the rock bleating for gold
	And mammon”
	Cain is here
	His breasts torpid
	Beasts dissolving in the deserts
	Smog and promise and the icon
	Leaching wax or rubber
	Smiling wordlessly
	“Oh Aleph where are you
	And your whirling arms and the patience
	That took you a trillion years and spears and so
	Beak fear and harbour and trains”

	Poppyskins
	In the kindness of the playground
	Aleph unveiled his claws
	As Pazuzu scrolled into town
	Murderer Murderer Murderer
	Small of Destroyer and fierce in his poverty
	My back is broken by his teeth
	On the mountain I as He rested
	The streams bite into the rocks
	Fissures gleaming with transparent blood
	Water mimicking the temple
	Teeth shuddering in the ghostlike face
	Of the faminedeliverer
	The locustbringer Adam
	The poppyskins were the clothes on the skin
	Raw as wind
	Pink like jets
	Red like the Bibles drifting in the streets
	Folded leather Sebek
	Root
	All the cuneiform all the clay face
	The wedges stuck in my heart
	And spelled:
	" The Murderer is here
	Cain is here, and brings strange graves
	And pens with poison
	The lands he hands to sheep or goats
	Clustered on the rock bleating for gold
	And mammon"
	Cain is here
	His breasts torpid
	Beasts dissolving in the deserts
	Smog and promise and the icon
	Leaching wax or rubber
	Smiling wordlessly
	" Oh Aleph where are you
	And your whirling arms and the patience
	That took you a trillion years and spears and so
	Beak fear and harbour and trains"