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Forgetting Home (or how can I forget you if you won't go away)

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Forgetting Home (or how can I forget you if you won't go away)

Euphemisms white wash his-story

So truth disappears under vague denial

Southeast USA above Florida

Sharing a border with Pensacola

Where the past lives on

In retrospective theme parks

The past is alive everywhere

Our world is full of museums

Memories gather into congregations

...

Wednesday 22nd January 2014 11:50 pm

ImproviXation #107

Some days I wish I could bend my knees

Lean backwards and wail like a saxophonist

But I know anyone within earshot

Would hear that wrong

There are days

I feel like screaming

But I don’t dare

I’m afraid of what the

Vibrations might cause

On days like that I like to clamp on headphones

Crank up volume on John Coltrane

Archie Shepp

Alb...

Thursday 26th September 2013 4:55 pm