Nikki Danjo - Momus

Midnight at the theatre, news is coming over

Of the murder of the prophet, the one we all believed in

Everybody’s scuttling, and everybody’s nervous

The man who makes the lightning has gone missing in the forest

And on the television comes the evil Nikki Danjo

Who proclaims himself the regent even though he is a rat

He’s got forward-sweeping eyebrows, an awful fearless forehead

And the scroll that he is holding tells the future of the world

And all the while the spider comet hurtles towards Earth

A pink and white calamity with an icy blue eye

An electric-coloured coma mane, a horrid ion tail

Danjo grins and grimaces like his head is on a spring

And now the night must lengthen to a universal sealant

While the oil wells in the desert burn all the oil away

The ruin of a wooden ship suspended between stacks of rock

And Nikki Danjo lives in it, as if in the Ark on Ararat

The dinosaurs return to the earth dressed up as stenographers

Committing dactylography, they copulate like dogs

And the ground has got so hot now that the only way to walk on it

Is on stilts built like chopsticks for tottering refugees

We reel injustice in on strings, don’t believe in anything

Between the jagged chimneys floats the nightmare of a moon

It’s down to Ennosuke, the great kabuki actor

To save us from the regent and put the rat to death

A pterodactyl cackle is lingering behind you

Obey the spider comet, whatever it may say