The Song of Eeeooo Eeeooo E

 The Song of Eeeooo Eeeooo E

(A lone woman sings)

With your last breath

Of the fading midnight hour

Will you hear with all your powers of the auditory

The musical call of my mystical senryu

Eeeooo Eeeooo E

Eeeooo Eeeooo Eeeooo E

Eeeooo Eeeooo E

From my Bacchic Celebration Towers 

Will you join my unashamed company 

In the swirling dervish mists

Who go past each midnight 

From another realm

Singing and chanting 

Eeeooo Eeeooo E

Eeeooo Eeeooo Eeeooo E

Eeeooo Eeeooo

To join a new world

Of never-ending pleasures

That will forever last

Where sensuous music with wild voices

Will put your soul 

At risk

With its seductive noises

And make it your Fate 

To enter and close its rusty old gates

Forever

Would you join

As they passed

No longer to lament

But to be courageous

To welcome me

To pitch my tent

In your soul 

With powers of enchantment and pleasure 

That will seem 

Heaven sent

A contradiction 

Of above and below

For I know

When all lascivious dreams must go

So shed your hubris and pomposity

As you 

To me

Are led

Chanting my musical

senryu of

Eeeooo Eeeooo E

Eeeooo Eeeooo Eeeooo E

Eeeooo Eeeooo

We pray to

The Golden Goddess of Exiles

Eeeooo Eeeooo E

Eeeooo Eeeooo Eeeooo E

Eeeooo Eeeooo E

To go to a place

Where purple butterflies live forever 

And people never

Die

Eeeooo Eeeooo E

Eeeooo Eeeooo Eeeooo E

Eeeooo Eeeooo

(C)

Copyright John Duffy 

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