I've seen the Bernstein/Wilbur Candide and it sustained attention. For me, the most memorable aria was "We are all victims of love," or what have you, sung by the syphilitic chorus, with great choreography in the staging I got to see.
Gil Scott-Heron is consistently great IMO. John Cooper Clarke shows up in some poetry anthologies, and R.D. Laing did a splendid sonnet cycle to music called "Life before Death," out of print now and hard to find. He plays trumpet on it. It's not online.
Cheers,
John
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