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Vector 23

by Joseph Airport

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1.
When everything Washed onto the beach It was cozy and comfortable Afternoon rays slanting Through the great watchers The conifer kings “I switched my world Digging in the sand” When meaningless movement Brought on the curse There were winters and losers Transcription was risky The serial numbers matched But the location made no sense “Your lives will change” He sent his own father to prison “I told you that money was cursed”
2.
Uneasy in loafers Five-foot-11 Dapper sunglasses Bourbon and 7 The gent in 18-C Is not named D.B. One-way trip and 30 minutes in the air Sunglasses folded Eyes in mid-40s Lit a smoke for himself But nothing for me The gent in 18-C Lightweight black raincoat A dark-hued suit With a white shirt And distinctive J.C. Penney clip-on tie “Can you describe the guy?” Collared dress shirt Crisply pressed Mother-of-pearl tie clip Pinned hard to the chest The gentleman In seat 18-C Sat in the back By the jump seat Where Flo Schaffner Sentried the aft stairs “You better look at that note” he advised “It’s not my phone number inside” She sat down beside As he cracked ope’ the case Showed her eight red cylinders Four on top of four The gentleman in 18-C The gent
3.
The red brigade is Waiting in Cuba But I want you To take me to Reno Marching band With a busted tuba I want you To take me to Reno Round up the chaps Lower the flaps We’re steadily descending from air Lower the stairs Relinquish your cares There’s just no other destination Just take me to Reno Where the ladies dance Where I’ll spend all my winnings That came with my chance That I took Just shut up and take me to Reno
4.
It’s l’intégrale Black J.C. Penney tie Like Albert Weinberg’s Ode to the sky Owed to this guy It’s a shot of good corn mash With ice and Uncola Give him another glass Excuse me, miss I have a bomb in this bag I’m of the opinion Evil occasion is brewing False expectations eschewing It’s fin de siecle End of the world Come sit beside me How’s about a refill? And another cigarette My pet It’s a shot of good corn mash With ice and Uncola Give him another glass One final score to ease up the pressure Two hundred thousand more To know he’d never catch her Leapfrogging nations and diverse economies Laundering bills in astonishing quantities I’m going out the back door Have you got one on this plane? Reno is not my destination I have a soul in declension Hijacker’s moral dimension It’s a shot of good corn mash With ice and Uncola Give him another glass
5.
Alice Short Coral red Mandatory cap On her head Tina Blonde Loneliest Miles of oceans In her eyes Flo Wigged Career girl Stewardess Went to South Carolina To become anonymous Find her an alcove Find them an answer Alice, Tina and Flo
6.
Johnny cash-and-carry Flew like canary A page gone white If wishes are fishes They feed on flesh Pick the bones clean It’s like a cipher There’s a shroud O’er Flight 305 Northwest Orient switchboard Lights up like a tree Full of clues for me
7.
I. Cabin Oscillations Are you serious, Flo? You left him alone With a quartet of parachutes And 200 thousand Where is the twist? It’s barebones plotwise Air stairs descending Into the tempest of Cabin oscillations Gold-plated stations Cash reaction Why am I short Of one morning snort? Seeking a more secure archive So we clasp palms with the Hand from the void II. SEA-TAC Getaway It’s a getaway It’s a mystery He vanished between The pages of history Into books not yet made Books so new their pages were Still locked Inside the pine wood III. Vanished Between They found a placard They found a few bills But no Dan Cooper And no goddam D.B. He lives in between All of the lines Of books not yet written Future heartthrobs With whom we’ll be smitten It’s a getaway It’s a mystery He vanished between The pages of history IV. Necessary Symmetry Necessary symmetry Resisted unimposed One stone for two Palpable Opprobrium echoing In the halls of government A half-assed job Costs half your ass In the end Nowhere to stand V. Disturbed Equilibrium When air swallows sensorium Disturbed equilibrium Now nothing remains No suspects are left And hardly anyone remembers One stone for two Leaves no stairs to descend Disturbed equilibrium We are bucking that trend
8.
8:01 He wants the lights out Wants the curtains drawn He’s got a grudge He’s no one’s pawn 8:02 He cut the guidelines loose Lashed the cash to his ass All those meals they prepared Dashed against the bulkhead 8:03 Call in the interceptor jets from Boise Helicopter time Sleet and hail and rime They cannot contact the plane Something else to blame Besides the rain 8:05 Hydraulic lifts are down He is flying free In the darkness Drawn into a negative plane The Washougal awaits But call it back The missing minute 8:04 No one is on the floor Reno in view Himmelsbach on the horn Mystery unsolved No suspects absolved But roll it back The missing minute (Key to the drop zone Assumptions all unknown)
9.
Agents await your arrival Marching men Poxy fens Circling the drop zone again Outflanked Outfoxed Pine trees mar the horizon Agents await your arrival Messages tendered to HQ Himmelsbach in the brush Marooned north of Merwin Lake Hoping the local law can’t be found Rendezvous with Sheriff Moss Agents await your arrival Bullets fall like rain again Pacific Northwest a devil’s trial Agents await your arrival
10.
Pertinacious pursuit The historymonger Saved it for the air Couldn’t cut it much longer His intuitions resumed Their interior clamor Antenna channels The bureau dropped a hammer Chicanery practitioner Mystery insider ’Cause Himmelsbach And his name means trouble Himmelsbach Gonna be trouble Seeking his truth In a conspiracy bubble Portland 1980 Nearly one man’s testimony Secures indictment New scrutiny on the bounty Himmelsbach Gonna be trouble
11.
Vector 23 01:42
Victor’s vector is 23 Pacific Northwest tree canopy Keep it under 10,000 feet Lower flaps 15 degrees Of four collected chutes He chose the fateful two Back there alone Up to no good Up to his old tricks Fouling the hydraulics On course and locked in Over evergreen canopy The chainsmoking gentleman On vector 23 Fighter jets Intercept course Rain red hail Of Pacific North
12.
She was positively textbook In a hardcover kind of way Scarlet dress Scarlet scarf The plane’s delayed today Textbook accomplice She was absolutely notestruck When he passed the slip her way Clear words Plain threat Bourbon and 7 on the seatback tray But she sat She talked to him Some folks swore She walked with him She was positively textbook She was grounded Stunned and notestruck
13.
Cooper Vane 01:29
Aeronautical triage Keeps paddle perpendicular To fuselage When the craft is in flight Aft stairs held tight Not to be opened en route (If not simply bolted outright) Crew is grounded for the Cooper vane installation Spring-loaded ventral stairs Designed for hijack cancellation Aerodynamic wedge Mandated by the FAA Denying it would be obtuse You have to embrace all reports Submitted by the experts Go and train the vane Reform air travel with your refrain
14.
Wrinkled green Blanket terrain Thrown across the below He knows it He studied it He Braille-touched the contours Palpated pine pips and alpine ridges He says “It’s only a 20-minute drive to McChord” He’s pacific and reserved His ebb and flow Even out in the riptide Mr. Cooper only wants what’s fair “It looks like Tacoma down there” Not of all the dollars Just a few He says “Bring extra meals for the crew” He waits ten extra minutes For the sake Of not ending up drowned In Merwin Lake In the end Left with no option But freefall in air “Looks like Tacoma down there”
15.
Bombproof And crowded with oxygen Terrace Volcallure at Casa Cugat What Abbe wants That’s what Cugie gets And what Abbe wants Isn’t something you can guess It’s a blind side-road Through matchstick forest Abbe wants what Cugie gets On the terrace at Volcallure And what Abbe wants That’s what Cugie gets 16-foot-thick concrete Security terrace Volcallure at Casa Cugat With oxygen
16.
Wind grip It’s a knife whip Bloodied his fingers Tore down the placard Spinning free In the jet stream Plunging blind Frozen in the tempest 122 miles per hour Aimed into Washougal forest 9,000 feet in 70 seconds Freefall’s a bitch When the chute’s sewn shut I’ll be there In exactly four moments These FBI puritans Are the biggest sticklers
17.
Victor’s vector is 23 Pacific Northwest tree canopy Keep it under 10,000 feet Lower the flaps 15 degrees Of four collected chutes He chose the fateful two The chain-smoking gentleman Cutting guidelines now And he’s back there all alone In the passenger compartment He’s up to no good Up to his old tricks He’s fouling up All the hydraulics On course and locked in On vector 23 Fighter jets on an intercept course Through rain and hail of Pacific north Along the vector called 23 O’er an evergreen canopy
18.
Duane O Duane All you’ve brought me is shame Come here Josephine I’ve got something to tell you I’m Dan Cooper The hijacker is me 178 in the bucket Maybe 173 Let it die with me Yes I’m Dan Cooper My name was never D.B. Josephine O Josephine I’m an ex-con and a con man Arrested in El Paso for burglary But I had a smooth way with old ladies Met J. E. Roy in Jefferson City But I damn sure never met Jack Ruby Let it fucking die with me Duane O Duane All you brought me is shame Come here Josephine There’s 178 in the bucket Maybe 173 Let it die with me

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At long last, the mystery unsolved

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released March 6, 2022

All songs by Joseph Airport
©2022 Tsunami Patrol Music
Joseph Airport Records — JAR-025

Joseph Airport is Jereme Sanborn, Ben Penry, Jason Short, Dan Nolan, Joe Patterson and Matthew Cutter

Joe Filbrun: Oscillator/sequencer on track 7
Jim Mertz: Guitar on tracks 1, 7, 8, 11; synth on track 7
Jason Riley: Guitar on tracks 2, 9, 10, 13, 14, 16, 18; acoustic guitar on track 14

Recorded at Joseph Airport
Engineered and mastered by Jason Short at Big Stink, Ohio

Front collage, "NORJAK," by Cutter
Rear collage, "Hijacked!" by Sanborn

Design by Joe Patterson

Thanks to: Bob, Rockathon, Tobin, Dan Cooper, Geoffrey Gray, you

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"Vector 23 is full of driving post-punk ... Bowie-inflected art rock ... and, at least to one listener, shades of Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd." —MAGNET Magazine

"... An eccentric, zany little album whose catchy tunes and peculiar lyrics can put a grin on your face." —The Fire Note
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