Interlude for Tarot Blanco

A farce in Varse piano

Stone by smoothèd mashed stoned

In decrypted smashed Valley lay

rock by Barnacle rock

as the skeletons starry play

mortar by silky mortar

smoothed long ago in clay

where the ancient goddess plies

the song that her rhapsode Bay

whatever gasped he grasps

you and I both know

is washed by anger

of a low dishonest decade

so pile by crusted pile

we wait for someone else

to take the mantle which

we know who’s mortal taste

brings Death into the World.