3/01/2021

Clem writes a number to the tune of “Crawdad” (Big Bill Broonzy).

What you gonna do when the oil goes dry?
Gonna sit right there and watch those Arabs die.

Salvador emits a thick screen of international finance to cloak, at least from the rank and file, his Liquefactionist activities. . .But over a few stiff yages he lets his hair down among friends.
“Islam is jelled consommè already,” he says,dancing the Liquefactionist Jig. . .And then,unable to contain himself, he bursts into a hideous falsetto:

It’s trembling on the brink
One push and down it sink
Hey, Maw, get ready my veil.

“Well, these citizens have engaged the services of a Brooklyn Jew who passes himself off as the second coming of Mohammed. . .In fact Doctor Benway delivered him by Caesarians section from a Holy Man in Mecca. . .
“If Ahmed won’t come out. . . We’ll go in and get him.”
This shameless plant is accepted without question by the gullible Arabs.
“Nice folk, these Arabs. . . Nice ignorant folk,” Clem says.
So this phony gives out with a daily Surahs on the radio:”Now friends of the radio audience, this is Ahmed your friendly prophet. . . Today I’d like to talk