Sad News just in from Gary Lucas’ Facebook page - RIP ELLIOT INGBER [Captain Beefheart alum Winged Eel Fingerling]

 Now we have lost Winged Eel Fingerling . . . . . . 

No B.O. for this boy

it's like a winged eel fingerling

crawling thru lime jello

it's like a chrome black eyebrow

rolled out real long

a paper brow magnifying glass

fried brown, edge scorched, yoked

like a squeak from a speaker

behind forehead of the time

licorice schtick open tube

of valuable JuJuBees

--poem and drawing below of Elliot Ingber by Don Van Vliet,
on the back cover of "The Spotlight Kid" (1972, Warners)

Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band - Alice in Blunderland (Spotlight Kid)

Elliot at The Radar Station

Elliott Ingber - No, Excuse Me

Elliot Ingber - THE THE THE THE  [The 4)