Received 05/01/2008 23:36

Songs

Had something to say. Crap. No memory. Like the dream that fizzles from memory before I reach the breakfast table.

Could someone on our planet, upon word that I ordered red meat and cheese, could said person please tap me on the shoulder and remind me not to do that?

Thanks.

Blotation. Dizzy-eyes. Red meat. Red meat. Red meat. No more red meat.

Still can't remember what I had to say.

Tap tap tap lick lick lick licking sound of these fingers pecking the keyboard.

I passed three hours at the kitchen table today copying out piano pieces I wrote from March through today. Copying it for why? Who will ever need a readable copy over the one-off sketch? Well, the A Minor song is mighty sweet. All my stuff this month is named SONG in honor of the Brigit Pegeen Kelly poem, and in honor of the fact that I was going to call my recent stuff SONGs anyway. The hacked-off goat's head swinging in the winds, braying at the head's body, that is my melody. Songs. I will write songs.

I *think* that is what I sat down to say.

Received 05/01/2008 14:24

What's

Going on around here. There is, literally, a police officer on every single street corner.

I didn't do anything.

Maybe it's Sean Bell related.

My friend M. was in town a few weeks back. We were walking up Broadway. As a black guy who'd been living in rural Pennsylvania for a few years he said "Man it's nice to walk down the street without worrying about dudes in pickups coming at me with baseball bats."

We laughed. A full but nervous laugh.


Received 05/01/2008 01:48

Strictly business

Feeling soft. Girls touching me. Telling me I am this. Telling me I am that. Looking away. Well, that last part is nothing new. Remembering how nice girls are like space aliens. Unusual and bizarre. Thinking about Monday's ghastly experiment in which I tried to EXPRESS MY FEELINGS through music I wrote. Never again. From here forth it is back to business. Strictly business. In music as in all things. T'ings. Tongs. Ting a tong along...

 

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