useless art

So dig this big crux:
When Josef K met Suzie Q
I had boiled peanuts for breakfast
From Cairo, Georgia.

History repeats itself.
I’m on the edge of Burma.
And you may ask yourself
Where does that highway go?
And you may ask yourself,
Who makes the Nazis?
Intellectual half-wits.
Tell me, how do I feel?
I feel like

We’re two flies in a cookie jar.
The problem of leisure:
I will hear your name call out from a boombox,
I will hear your name call out from passing cars.
Go down the checklist, let’s see:
Pretty the pictures, work to the bone,
Like this – ack ack ack ack.

What’s the point of wasting time
On people that you’ll never know?
You’re driving me crazy; give me a kiss,
Suzie Q. Baby, I love you, Suzie Q.
I start at his knees and end in his dreams,
For no bonds can ever keep me from she.
I’m on a mission to never agree.

Used in this cento:

1. The Minutemen – “Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing” (Double Nickels on the Dime, 1984)


2. Nothing Painted Blue – “Epistemophilia” (Power Trips Down Lovers Lane, 1993)


3. The Mountain Goats – “Alpha Omega” (Protein Source of the Future…Now!, 2002)


4. This Heat – “Cenotaph” (Deceit, 1979)


5. Mission of Burma – “The Ballad of Johnny Burma” (Vs., 1982)


6. Talking Heads – “Once in a Lifetime” (Remain in Light, 1983)


7. The Fall – “Who Makes the Nazis?” (Hex Enduction Hour, 1979)


8. New Order – “Blue Monday” (Power, Corruption & Lies, 1983)


9. Mommyheads – “Needmore PA” (Bingham’s Hole, 1993)


10. Gang of Four – “Natural’s Not In It” (Entertainment!, 1980)


11. Soul Coughing – “Mr. Bitterness” (Ruby Vroom, 1994)


12. Dismemberment Plan – “What Do You Want Me To Say?” (Emergency & I, 1998)


13. Young Marble Giants – “Include Me Out” (Colossal Youth, 1994)


14. Urinals – “Ack Ack Ack Ack” (Negative Capability…Check It Out!, 1997)


15. Broadcast – “Come On Let’s Go” (The Noise Made By People, 2000)


16. Sonic Youth – “Kissability” (Daydream Nation, 1988)


17. Credence Clearwater Revival – “Suzie Q” (Credence Clearwater Revival, 1968)


18. Throwing Muses – “Start” (University, 1994)


19. The Jam – “English Rose (All Mod Cons, 1978)


20. Fugazi – “The Argument” (The Argument, 2001)