Celebrity Heads Songtext
von Flatus

Familiar faces grace the pages
We′ve seen them all and recognise
Grisly images committed to the ages
On gatefold sleeves which depict demise
Posthumously purulent happy-snaps
Gruesome Graphics reproduced en masse
Headshots arranged, skin décollaged
Scalpel and Pritt Stick for a meticulously
Crafted, magnificently morbid montage...
Homicides were deftly excised from
A Pathologists' manual of forensic stills


Suicides/accidents: immortalised
Analogous visage of curated gore spills
Livid marbled flesh in stark, putrescent hues
Star after death, so carefully trimmed and glued
Dead famous; gone but not forgotten
Celebrity heads... Remembered rotten
Not survived by their character
Just twisted memorial portraiture
Fates exemplified in Pop Art barbarism
Obituarial congeries of Dadaism
All that remains of a likeness in tatters