- I cannot give the reasons
I only sing in tunes :
the sadness of the seasons
the madness of the moons
I cannot be didactic
or lucid, but I can
be quite obscure and practic-
ally marzipan
In gorgery and gushness
and all that's squishified.
My voice has all the lushness
of what I can't abide
And yet it has a beauty
most proud and terrible
denied to those whose duty
is to be cerebral.
Among the antlered mountains
I make my viscous way
and watch the sepia fountains
throw up their lime-green spray
— Mervyn Peake.