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The Endangered Salamander

from Metamorphos by Luna Moth

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Well the endangered salamander sipping whiskey in my beard writes Russian novels with delirious detail and he swings up through the sideburns in the faultlines of my jawbones whispering mystic manifestos in my ear
And the endangered salamander sings a psychedelic song to me.

I stepped into a landscape of the Spanish Civil War but where instead of guns the soldiers carried tadpoles, and the rebels had a spy so they could hear the Fascists' plans through an amphibian attached to Franco's backbone
And the endangered salamander sings a psychedelic song to me.

The woman I'm in love with speaks 11 insect languages and turns into a treefrog when it rains and her old man was a hobo who got stoned in San Francisco and seduced a Greek goddess with his guitar. He had a voice like peach pits in a blender and a broken foot from always stomping too hard when he played and his best friend was a horsefly with a glass eye who recited Zapatista poetry through highway teeth. Well that old man once told me, "Boy, you'd better snuff that cigarette or else those gills will never become lungs." When I asked him what he meant by that he lied down on the railroad track and said, "if you don't evolve, who'll sing my songs?"
And the endangered salamander sings a psychedelic song to me.

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from Metamorphos, released December 26, 2008

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