The Day I Met Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band

i met Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band one day sitting

they were sitting on a lonely discount shelf at Sounds used CD store on St. Marks Place

the place where sometimes I would wander aimlessly in failed attempts at getting my head together

it was a nightmare for me

a true and terrible nightmare

it was metal clanging in my ears and tom drums banging over and over and over and over

i told my friends i told them all but they laughed

it was cosmic alien talk....too much overdrive....

i had another nightmare

a really terrible one

i saw the vinyl record for sale

it was hanging up high on that over-sized saltine cracker looking wall

it read 65.00 mint condition on a yellow explosive shape thing

i woke up

i woke up

i never bought it

i never had the money

they took it off the shelf

i met Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band

im glad it was electricity

sometimes satanic

it damaged me it really did

and im glad

and im glad

im glad