Underwater Jukebox

FinsburyParkCarrots

Conchblasts streaming funky bubble jive
Stripefish teeming shoalflash blues alive
Diver gastank trumpet bubble blubs
flipper seaflap splats on ocean shrubs:

I'm the underwater jukebox, blue and orange
Playing tangos to an aqua sporange

FinsburyParkCarrots

The night I met Slim Gaillard he was playing pool
in this sharp hepcat suit with an abstract beret
leaning over the table, zipping and popping those reds
whack splat oorooni in the deep long jiggly pockets
knockrattling in the broad brown table bass

Slim was puttiputtiputting the black skeeereeeleee fantissimo
stowaway showboatin' and hellzapoppin'
sharp zap and showin' no stinkin' badges
and this Chelsea pensioner stowaway he was showboatin',
Cuba-shuffle zapping and slap slimslam floy floy no flatfootin'.

Zap dang, I saw Jack Kerouac's epiphany man
playing pool like his cue was made to be cradled
and his hands were the cradle, man, orooni!
They were a cradle, man, orooni!
They were a cradle of civilisation.

justam

I like the improv for Slim Gaillard.

(I thought you wrote Galliard until I typed out the name!)

DopeBeastie

you did not just rhyme "orange"


:P

FinsburyParkCarrots

I was going to say "Tetrasporange" to show off!

And there's a Welsh hill called Blorenge too. That's near enough.

DopeBeastie

ain't that a sponge?

FinsburyParkCarrots

*Picks up big fakkoff dictionary*

I have the complete OED here, all eight million volumes in microform. Let me get my magnifying glass.

*Comes back to desk. Squints after light of magnifying glass blinds eyes*

It's, er...

Hang on, I need to look again....

FinsburyParkCarrots

A receptacle containing spores; a spore-case or capsule.

Sounds like a sponge to me too!