i
“Make it rain to drown the pain”
The junior Witch said again and again
The billigits are churlishly mellow
They whisper what you want to bellow
ii
“madam fair yet so au contraire how will you employ us
to find you a lad not a cad beyond the surface
but you can make it rain to fill every cracked surface
we wonder are you seeking love or something to plug the orafice”
iii
Eira was enraged by the little orange knights’ audacity
She placed the four billies into a catapult
“Across the moors with you tiny bores
You should know the score by the time you hit Cincinnati”
iv
But Eira had forgotten that billigits fly
And upon reaching the highest sky
They orgone rayed the clouds
And the rains came hard and proud
Saragun Springs 
Gotta smile at rhyming audacity and Cincinnati.
Forgotten most of what I ever knew about William Reich, but I do remember that, as well as his orgone boxes, he also developed rain-making machines. (i think one of my neighbours must’ve got one – rained all through October)
Congratulations on what I imagine is the first Reichian ballad.
mick
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Hi Mick
Thank you. Orgone came to mind when Donald Sutherland died; I remembered the Kate Bush video he co-starred in about the Orgone man and son v. the FDA. Funny how things go.
Thanks again
Leila
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Leila
This is a hilarious section of the poem! Hilarious, and somehow very realistic, despite the wild imagination and outlandish characters. “Make it rain to drown the pain” is a wonderful line of complex simplicity, and the way Eira and the billies REACT to each other is true poetic drama (in the hilarious mode).
Mick’s Wilhelm Reich reference reminds me of the Dylan line (from “Joey”): “He did ten years in Attica, reading Nietzsche and Wilhelm Reich.”
Kate Bush is a fabulous artist to engage with in this way, especially since so much of her work engages with other art in the same way that this poem is engaging with her art. That sentence may sound confusing but the logic of it is ironclad.
Dale
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Hi Dale
It’s raining here to drown the pain for certain. But the wind will be coming up to clear things a bit.
The billies have a weird history, and I ecall why they began as the “billygates”–the microsoft secret police. I was using windows and the damn auto updates came in at the worst times. Normally a person would not create four winged dudes who look a bit like a cross between Bowie and Herbie the Elf from Rudolph but I have accepted my odd conceptions as a part of the hand the cosmos dealt me.
Thanks again
Leila
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