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By chris Date: 2005 Dec 11 Comment on this Work [[2005.12.11.01.59.12948]] |
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"music is heaven" said thomas campion i wonder did queen elizabeth know? as she grooved to his tunes in gilded palaces lit by fire below which the rest of the known world lived lives quite far from heaven because there were clothes to wash fields to plow carts to pull stock to feed work to do children to nurse bread to leaven candles to light (you are heaven) i can't remember when it last rained here some days i think all that's not firmly tied down attached will just blow away with the rest of this city's dust picturesque postcard poverty colorful rust mi nuevo mexico i trust we'll someday all be mexicans again arizona will become a golf course texas will secede (praise je- sus) and everyone will forget she ever existed in the first place the lying war crime faces the best intentions twisted like our leaders suddenly like the memory of a twister from six springs past so on this night i can see the flashing red transmission tower on sandia crest some five thousand feet up in this heavy cold air that's settled on our heads and you're asleep in there and for one second maybe i'm aware of the irreplaceable moments that comprise this life this minute this hour this polyphony of our days radiant and without fear sung as brightly as boldly as we can manage while we're still here |