A1: Dobson Fly (2:05)
(What’s the matter with you? Don’t you read the papers?
No, I prefer to get my information from more reliable sources, like rumor and small children. I don’t watch the news. I make it.)
Stay away silly little dobson fly, they won’t play with a little dobson fly/So fly away silly little dobson fly, nothing to say to a little dobson fly/I won’t pay for a little dobson fly, stay away silly little dobson fly
We can’t be numb/We feel the bite/The diagnosis/Can’t be right/Quarantined outside/Upstairs tonite/The spook’s alive and frightened of our fears of heights/Wax builds drips in reverse/We just hear of candelite/Fire the fireflies
(Vespa…papapapa…)
The torch! Here comes the torch!
Fire the fireflies/Pay day today/Silly little dobson fly/Keep them at bay/All those little dobson flies/Back to larvae/Sickening hellgrammite/Follow the fireflies/Fire the fireflies
The British-Somali poet draws upon everything from leftfield folk to minimalist spoken-word, bound together by simple-yet-cutting wordplay. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 28, 2021