Carnival Day from Cattie! by Mattie Konig

carnival day…

carnival day…

Carnival Day…
Carnival Day…
Carnival Day…
Carnival Day…

I got the train into Central all by myself
I met my friends, bought a coffee
Lunch and a walk in the park

And I know the humans are staring
And I know they’re sneering inside
And I think pariahs can smell when dimples are stretched from the weight of the lies

Carnival Day
When the monsters come out to play
Carnival Day
A mardy musky fray

And I don’t know which is the mask
And I don’t know which is the face
And I don’t think I can pretend to have any stake in this CrossCountry race

But you can’t deny the power of Gaia’s pulse
Or the tingle of your toes when she adjusts the canon

yes! A breathless TF sequence is starting now
And you’ll grip your Posca pens again in brand new talons

No schism of your contrasts
In council for the very first time
Balance
As a real deer friend once said to me
You have to go on tour and you have to be Anne too

Fangs aching strange as they grow in sideways
HAWTHORN AND ASPEN ENVELOPING GANDY STREET
BOOTSCRAPERS CAKED WITH THE SPOOR OF DUMNONIA

Four-fingered hooves scratching equilateral ears
TOKING AND JOKING AND STIMMING AND SMOOCHING
LEAVE ALL ELSE BEHIND FOR THIS GAY BACCHANALIA

Fly, pretty ones, fur in the breeze
You feel like you and I feel like me
Make, as you will, your deviant art
Mad as the love in your mammal heart

I got the train home from Central all by myself

And I know my clade of becoming
And I know the steps to this dance
And I think there’s more cartoon critters in Wessex than you might assume at first glance

The soft butch ticket inspector liked my tote bag

And I don’t know if that’s a signal
And I don’t know who was their wife
And I don’t think I caught their name so swift was the passage of their life through mine

that was such a fun day
but I’m very very eepy!!!
the cat is now a mouse
and the mouse is just sooo…(yawn!!!)
grab a juice box
and have a nap
on soft pillows underneath string lights and vines
make a little space, so far from…

Carnival Day!
Carnival Day!
Carnival Day!
Carnival Day!

• Experimental
• electronica
• neo-psychedelia
• progressive
• psychedelic
• United Kingdom