Poem for Hoppy daevid allen & Soft Machine live at the UFO Club, 1967 Youtube video 3'57" https://youtu.be/7byv6v_ku7w 'this is a poem dedicated to John Hopkins, the poem to the City fathers of London, [] the world...' our fathers who art in [] we are speaking to you fathers in political insane asylums [] of the dead body politic professors of the magic lie we are speaking to you presidents, potentates, police inspectors of the mind popes of the popular [] we are speaking to you [] of the easy speak yes men of the lip-service and [purse] fiddlers of the [] we are speaking to you [] shepherds of people down the avenue of promises the powers of [] just around the corner available soon no [] strings attached just over the rainbow on cloud sixty-nine brain invaders? punishement dealers manufacturers of [eyesight] you are blind commanders of the strong arm of the black leather authority rejoicing in your [] armies of the second [] we don't want to know about you and your supermarkets of the [platitude] we are sick of being raided for illegal thoughts and jailed for possession of the smoking flower as you prosecute explorers of the mind [] father let us prey our fathers whose [] is heaven hollow be thy shrines thy kingdom [] thy foundries [] on a [edge] in seventh heaven sell us this day our hands and heads lest we be [] trespassers lest we forgive not thy trespass against us and freed us from evil for grime is the kingdom the power and the glory [unintelligible] ('thank you')