Q: and A: With Phantom Lennon

Q:
1955 Skiffle
washboards
ging ging-e-ging, ging ging-a-ging
wah shoo booo roaaahh rarrdes?

A:
scroll thumb Skiffle
scroll the thumb Skiff-riff-a-swiffle
thing-a-thing
“Oh, no! Yo! No!”
echo
washboard
Sgt. Pepper &
swashbuckler.

Q:
Pepper
Sweater in the
shredder
The Metaphysics of Sneezing?
“Ha Choooo?”

A:
“Bless you
for the rest of the year.
Bless you.”

Q:
The Ghost sang these lyrics,
“Bless you for the rest of the year?”

A:
Below
Below
Be low
Tune
Boy low
Tune slow
72nd Street Slow Station

Q:
subway club rub track
grub scrub trap
your lap your lap
clap clap
The Rat sat your hat flat?

A:
Your own interview with Mister Phantom, $3.50.

Q: Really? Turn on? Tune in? Drop out?

A: Yes. Yes. Oh, & piss off, piss on, and kiss on the Saints!

Q:
And the backup?

A:
Three thousand Voices
chant.
command.

“Piss off the Saints! Piss on the Saints! Kiss. Kiss. Kiss on the Saints!”