captain beefheart - don van vliet fine arts - 'winged eel fingerling / elliot ingber' (drawing and poem)

captain beefheart electricity

don van vliet SINGING INK
poetry and fine arts

WINGED EEL FINGERLING
elliot ingber, guitarist

drawing - poem

drawing & poem
from back cover THE SPOTLIGHT KID album 1972
drawing (without background) reproduced usa promotional booklet BROWN STAR mid 1972
poem reprinted england book THE LIVES AND TIMES OF CAPTAIN BEEFHEART first three editions 1977/80

captain beefheart / don van vliet - drawing - 'mean e.' (winged eel fingerling / elliot ingber) 1971 - back cover 'the spotlight kid' lp 1972

no b.o. for this boy

it's like a winged eel fingerling

crawling thru lime jello

it's like a chrome black eyebrow

rolled out real long

a paper brow magnifying glass

fried brown, edge scorched, yoked

like a squeak from a speaker

behind forehead of the time,

licorice schtick open tube of

valuable jujubees

don van vliet 1971

portraits of other MAGIC BAND MEMBERS:
MARK BOSTON rockette morton
ROY ESTRADA oréjon / audi hon
BRUCE FOWLER fossil
BILL HARKLEROAD zoot horn rollo
ART TRIPP ed marimba

click clack to the power station, the news or the other SINGING INK

captain beefheart electricity
as felt by teejo