Sewers of Babel

What was once meant to give me access
to a personal concert of my own concoction
(Wherein i am always the privileged audience)
now allows me in this post to address an audience,
or at least create a remote machine rendition
of my finger pressure in text. Such is success
in a time of technology. End transmission.

It is only by the dimming of the screen, the removal of all the displays and means of writing that I can now see what the point is.

Read more!

Oh what heavy-handed justice might you pass to your kin?
The ship of what may have been in
has passed on into the night:
Where this, the fevered fights of our dreamscapes
take hold and heart
to bear righteousness for our part in the play of our escapes...
Makes free the mind tied up in the twine of yesteryeared thought-
Or asks our feeble although nimble fingers
to extract a feather for the cap of another.
What sister, what brother,
what lover of thought might grasp at the strings
of her own puppeteer with the sneer of a knower-
a kiss blower dangling in the trees-
watching the black widow spin webs
through the pane of the window we know as mirror,
denouncing the terror announced earlier that dawn.
When we cross the magic of our imagined lives with the thread of the living past
or the dead,
we tread, we plod
through many-angled halls to the dormant part of dreaming
to the doormat we become
if we choose, and we do,
to be slaves to memory.
Slaves to those haunts and spectres in the outlying
dumb green fields of youth-
there lies the both, the dead, and the truth.

The last thing on earth you want is to listen to any of this. Production level increased as I went on. This is my "Album" from the College Years.

"Bad Monkeys"

"Path of Evil"

"Six Hundred and Sixty Six Sloppy Seconds"

"Be Fruitful"

"Rush in Fool"

"All my Friends are Leaving me"

"Are you Married?"

"Slouching Toward Bethlehem"

Bizarre toilet seat that washes your bum with water. No, it's not a biday...

Excessive?

Pat Martino, Stanley Clarke, McCoy Tyner, Jack DeJohnette and more...