Telling Time By Sausages

 

“The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the [sausages] being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.”— Vladimir Nabokov

March 11, 2011

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    Zappa’s songs are the sausages of rock and roll: bursting with so many delicious ingredients you can’t quite put your finger on that combine to make one amazing whole.
    This is not one of those songs; this one is kindof “awful”.
    Still, Zappa + sausage is worth sharing.

    Jezebel Boy!
    You know all the guys
    In the Sheriff’s Patrol
    They leave you alone
    When they round up the whores
    Up on Hollywood Boulebard

    Sometimes that nasty D.A.
    Thinks he needs his name
    In the paper again —
    That’s usually when
    The short-pants girls
    Have to take a ride
    With a friendly policeman

    But the Jezebel Boy
    On the corner by the Technicolor processing plant
    Stands by the light;
    Waitin’ through the night
    Waitin’ for that distinguished-looking
    Wilshire District Gentleman
    With snow-white hair,
    To drive up in his Lincoln,
    And whisk away the Jezebel Boy

    There he goes now!
    Old Ralph will make him put that wretched
    Sausage in his mouth again

    Another day,
    Another sausage —
    Jezebel Boy

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    Frank Zappa, “Jezebel Boy”

    (Credit to Ste-Ro)

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