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The Frolic #4, page 32

Paulie Blade

on Nov. 4, 2020

"God in Three Persons" is a record by an American band The Residents. It's a concept album with an overarching narrative spoken in a very distinctive type of rhyming. Each verse consists of three lines, out of which two first lines rhyme (often very awkwardly) and the third one usually doesn't (all with an awesome cowboy accent). For instance.

I ran across, myself compulsive
With the feeling of a pulsing
DRUM that pounded underneath my skin

(…)

First it kept me at a distance
But my senses kept insisting
It was much more interesting inside

I decided to borrow this technique for the Ferocious Frolicking on pages 28-30. That's all I'm saying. The rest is left for the reader to digest.
So this concludes "Ghosts of Ravenstein". I'll be back soon with chapter five (of six), "Mr. Mourning".
Just a few more verses from The Residents before I go…

Aimlessly I slowly wandered
As my footsteps took me onward
To a part of town I did not know

Soon I saw I was distracted
By a window that was acting
As a display for a barber's store

And what was underneath my stare
Was silver, sharp, and could not care
About confusion or about despair

It only had one job to do
And when it cut, it cut so true
That now I knew exactly what to do