Mushroom Man of Canterbury Lane
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Where the grass is silver
and the silver is grass,
Where the wondrous spells 
of Warlock Web are cast, 
Where the sun is shade
and shade is the sun
Where once a week it rains
light on anyone,
  There lives the Mushroom Man of Canterbury Lane.

Where the snails are springs
and the springs are snails
Where the children bring
flowers without fail, 
Where North is straight up
and up is straight North
Where all realize
his or her worth;
  	There lives the Mushroom Man of Canterbury Lane.

Where gorillas dance
as if under a trance
Where jungle is desert
and desert is jungle,
Where for six days all play
but on the seventh all stay
still and without thought
watch the light fall;
  	There lives the Mushroom Man of Canterbury Lane.

Where the trees are chairs
that bend with the breeze
Where the great silky
Vamintha can roam free,
Where the fish fly
and the flies fish
making themselves
their captives' dish;
  	There lives the Mushroom Man of Canterbury Lane.

Where absence is sin
and sin is absent,
Where moles study their holes
to see where they will went,
Where light comes but once
and all stay inside
watching the downpour
from their windowpanes,
  	Save the Mushroom Man of Canterbury Lane.

Mushroom Man is considered a tad strange
For on the rain day he does not cower
with fright and hide like the rest, but goes outside
and catches the teary light in a pail.
He brings the bucket to his 'room and paints
it bright - a cylindrical gold delight
which fades in intensity and brilliance
as the week wears down
  	in the 6 day shade;

When flowers hold children under a pale sky
When the mammoth Vamintha lumbers by
When fluorescent vines shine the way through brush
When violet apes scour the desert plush,
When moles crawl in the tunnels Web built fast
When the past is peace and the peace is passed
When shadowless souls shatter and winds blow;
When everything is free except the will 
When Web melts turquoise fire, conjures snow
   and directs all with his magickal refrain,
  	Save the worshipper of the hidden light,
the Mushroom Man of Canterbury Lane.