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jwesley
Member Rara Avis
since 2000-04-30
Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

0 posted 2013-07-21 12:50 PM


Curb Damage

Why does the DJ
play the same old songs
when I need something new,
the magic, the birth
of new horns and words
instead of
howling like wolf's prey
knowing it's going to die.

Horns and words,
prayers to the gods
in the sky . . .

oh my Lord,

Oh,my Lord . . .


Caught a note from the radio.

A single note,
a beginning,
something new,
something bordering on
beautiful . . . and then,

it was gone, leaving
just the pain
where I'd fallen
and my head hit the curb –

leaving me howling,
like wolf prey,
knowing I'm going to die,
because
the smell of curb damage,
coppery, metallic,
plentiful enough,
alcoholic senses spilled,

the smell of Death

wolf prey,
wolf prey,
knowing
it's going to die.






© wesley james beard, jr.


© Copyright 2013 Wesley James Beard, Jr. - All Rights Reserved
JerryPat2
Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975
South Louisiana
1 posted 2013-07-21 12:58 PM


You got carried away with this one, huh, J? I have no concept of anything new, especially in music and politicians. As for music I creep back to pristine country music when it was country music. When I'm not there I am content to lay back with the sixties and seventies and their acid rock and soulful jive. As for politicians, the White House is occupied by a new one. I'll pass. Good luck on that new sound you are searching for, I fear it is a thing of the past. Strange to say that something new is in the past, but this I believe.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

Michael
Moderator
Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-13
Posts 7666
California
2 posted 2013-07-21 06:47 PM


Well, Jimmy, I don't listen to the radio for precisely the same reasons.  The grossly overrepeditive nature is enough to make me wish I were dead.

Seriously, I like the way to touch on just a glimmer of hope off one stray note, only to have it sweep you back the wolf prey.  That there's the story of my life.  

Michael

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere
3 posted 2013-07-21 09:42 PM


Jimmy, that was way cool dude!!I know what you mean my friend.  They used to say if it is too loud you are too old. Now I believe I would say if it sounds more like noise than music, I'm too old. (I ask children for directions...it is still out there you just have to know who to listen to)God bless

Lori

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California
4 posted 2013-07-23 05:20 AM


I could appreciate something new and different.
                    Ida

Gale
Senior Member
since 2013-06-10
Posts 578
Russia
5 posted 2013-07-23 05:33 AM


Oh, radio!
Did you ever hear this?
https://soundcloud.com/carolinehamilton/walking
I'm not sure if radio played it. I've found it in another forum, one lady wrote it and another sang, and it's in English )

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