CASPER
THE FRIENDLY GHOST
Option-ARMs and the man I sing who first
came from Detroit-Berlin into Black-Scholes
flight to liquidity flight to safety flight to quality
Real city derelict house derelict storefront
ostalgia for the productive forces
dude that's not emptiness it's abstraction
asserting itself on the home front now
who will love in your hollowed carapace
Dilution of violence and grief
spread over centuries to come
a lamentation congealed and spent
in the orgiastic present
credit is a form of fortune
telling that is always right
except in what kind of story
"The engine of history"
arose as a phrase
in a blue century long
afternoon before this
motordämmerung now
the velocity of risk
passing through us
and coming out as
filter disco ghettotech
panta rhei of finance being
The world which extruded six story apartment blocks
and warehouses of brick and filthy glass which made
making and finally faded when we used the word
real behind the back of consciousness we meant that
we meant industry and the industrial age you want
a total philosophy well there is my metaphysics
came from Detroit-Berlin into Black-Scholes
flight to liquidity flight to safety flight to quality
Real city derelict house derelict storefront
ostalgia for the productive forces
dude that's not emptiness it's abstraction
asserting itself on the home front now
who will love in your hollowed carapace
Dilution of violence and grief
spread over centuries to come
a lamentation congealed and spent
in the orgiastic present
credit is a form of fortune
telling that is always right
except in what kind of story
"The engine of history"
arose as a phrase
in a blue century long
afternoon before this
motordämmerung now
the velocity of risk
passing through us
and coming out as
filter disco ghettotech
panta rhei of finance being
The world which extruded six story apartment blocks
and warehouses of brick and filthy glass which made
making and finally faded when we used the word
real behind the back of consciousness we meant that
we meant industry and the industrial age you want
a total philosophy well there is my metaphysics