“In the garden grows a flower
Bending low to the earth,
Its face in the dust.
I can see
The dark side of the flower.
Painted face.
Can you see the dark side of the flower? . . .

Many colors are your petals,
Signifying, what?
Perhaps you see their meaning
Through a chemical prism.
The dew on your petals called love
No longer seems to sparkle in the sun.
The dew seems to cling
Only to your leaves,
And ooze,
Not flowing to moisten
The life of your blossom,
But closing off its breath.”

—Pastor John Rydgren and Peter Tork, “Dark Side of the Flower”, from the very odd, not to say bizarre, late sixties double LP “Silhouette Segments.” Originally released on the Weird-Oh label, catalog number Weird-Oh 002.