Tulip by Don Van Vliet

It could be
a tremendous black upside-down tulip
it could be
a black fishes’ tail
it could be a day, artistically crimped
and buoyant
in its taped together way

(28 September, 1991)

1993 reading of Tulip is available

1 Comment

  1. It could be a day, artistically crimped and buoyant in a taped together way…so Don Van Vliet…so Captain Beefheart…so beautiful…so beautifully said. A verse so essential to the man!

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