BOB

you were a long days dying

my friend

the poetry

of death

bares little

resemblance

to reality

it is dirty

filled with blood

medicine

foul smells

shit

and long

nights

when

it is exhausting

redundant

excruciating

one is afraid

to sleep

afraid of

not waking

of not knowing

where you are

what has happened

where are

the memories

the travels

the experience

is there some

place

where they

are stored

for eternity

your manners

were exquisite

until the end

always asking after others

as you lay there

immobile

at the end

you asked for people

wanting

i think

one last time

to see the smiles

of friends

to hear the

sound of laughter

song

once

before

the sirens call

I was not there

that last moment

goodbyes at

that point seemed

meaningless

you had already gone to

wherever

we go

with your voice

now singing

loudly once more

the songs

you always remembered

that day: For Annie, of course

That day

When it is

Understood

If the labors of cosmologists

Have proven to be

Futile

If the sky has

No meaning beyond

Itself

I will love you

Not defiantly

Not in spite

Because

I do

If the stars prove to be

Mere chandeliers

And the universe is then

Plural

It matters little

I will love you

As carbon

As stardust

As light

If

It is shown

That the Clockmaker

Abdicated

If then and there

The moral compass

Is obliterated

I will love you

As a breath

As a soft night

As the corpuscle that

Sings

In you heart

As that which

You always knew

I will love you

meltdown festival

This years meltdown festival was curated by Ornette Coleman and included a brilliant cast including Baaba maal, the roots, The Master Musicians of Jajourka, Yo La Tengo,Patti Smith, Moby... Now, if I were curating heres whom I would Have:

ORNETTE COLEMAN!!!!!!!

Don Byron

Abida Parveen

Wayne Shorter!!!!!!!!!

Kris Kristofferson

Godspeed You Black Emperor

Caetano Veloso

Yo la Tengo

The Kronos Quartet

The Decemberists

Aretha Franklin

Seu Jorge

Jon Hassell

Terry Riley

Michael Franti

The Roots!!!!!!

The Sierre leonoe All Stars

TAJ MAHAL!!!!!!!

Brian Wilson

RB Morris

Zachary Richard

Gilberto Gil

Gilles Apap

TV ON THE RADIO

Prince

Robert Fripp

Casandra Wilson

Milton Nascimiento

Ry Cooder

John Mclaughlin and Remember Shakti

Leonard Cohen

Happy fathers day

a silly holiday perhaps,still,nice to acknowledge the dads among us.Blessings

Darwish

When I read the news

i still could not

believe

in Houston?

so far from where

you came

the invisible town

on the invisible map

i never met you

personally

your words would sing

like mourning doves

I never

had the moment

to make you coffee

my delicious coffee

offer you a sweet roll

a newspaper

and quiet

never heard

your voice

which took the cadence

of three generations of trilling

tuned to a higher pitch

never had time

to walk with you

amongst the roses

the magnolias

apple blossoms

to let

the petals fall on your

shoulders

and into your speech

and now

as smaller men become

meaner

your words hang

on the trees

fight for space

on the broken pavement

and on the birds

who were never

afraid

old masters

why does the past

old and gone

still smell sweet

why do i crave

my mothers

cooking

even when I am not

hungry

why are absent friends the best

conversationalists

{walking foward is so difficult

with your neck

craned

behind you}

is it nostalgia

or age

is the future so

terrfyingly bleak

am i so

tied to an image

that never

actually

existed

that is is better

to give in

to ennui

then to pick

up a shovel and read

essential music

JS Bach Mass in B minor Philippe Hereweghe
JS Bach St MAtthew's Passion again Hereweghe
Mahler symphony #3 Claudio abbado
Bob Dylan:Blood on the tracks
Bob Dylan:Blond on Blond
Neil Young:Tonight's the night
Arvo Part:Tabula Rasa
Arvo Part:Litanies
Blind Willie Johnson:complete recordings
Miles Davis:Kind of Blue
Miles Davis;Sketches of Spain
Miles Davis In a silent way
Philip Glass Music in 12 parts
Grateful Dead:Europe '72
Grateful Dead:Live Dead
The Band:Rock of Ages
The Band:eponymous
Kronos quartet:Black angels
Kronos Quartet:Cadenza on the night plane
Charles Mingus:at UCLA 1965
Charles Mingus:Epitaph
Charles Mingus: Mingus ah Um
Charlie Parker:Compelte Bird on Verve
Charlie Parker:Complete Dila and savoy sessions
Otis Redding:OTIS box set
Olivier Messiaen: Vingnt regars sur le enfant Jesu` by Aimard
Olivier Messiean:The canyon to the stars Simon Rattle
Olivier Messiaen:St Francis of assisi opera
Bach:Cello suites Pablo Casals
Glenn gould:Goldberg, 54,55 and 81
Glenn Gould Bach the well tempered clavier
every damn thing Gould did of Bach
Johnny Cash: complete sun recordings
Chuck Berry: complete 1950's chess recordings
Nikhil Banerjee:Purabi Kalyan
George Crumb:ancient voices of children
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson:Neruda songs
Lorrinae Hunt Lieberson:Rilke songs
THE ENTIRE ELLA FITZGERASLD SONGBOOK ESPECIALLY
The Duke ellington songbook
The louis Armstrong songbook
The Harold Arlen Songbook
The Johnny Mercer songbook
Sun Ra:space is the place
Sun Ra:Whta planet is this
Stockhausen:Mantra
Stockhausen:Zodiac
Frank Sinatra:Only the lonely
Frank Sinatra:A man alone
Yves Montand:Olympia 1981
Gilberto Gil:The sound of revolution, 1968,1969
Gilberto Gil :Quanta
The rolling stones:Sticky Finger
The rolling stones:Exile on main street
John Coltrane:A love supreme
John Coltrrane:meditations
Ingram Marshall:Three penetential visions
Ingram Marshall:Kingdom come
Caetano Veloso:Tropicalia
Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso:tropicalia 2
Milton Nascimiento:Pieta
Sarah Vaughan:the complete roulette studio recordings
Frank Sinatra:a man alone
Roy Orbison:The soul of rock and roll
Emmylou Harris:Cowgirl's Prayer
Emmylou Harris:Red dirt girl
The Clash:Sandinista
The Clash:Combat Rock
The Roots:things fall apart
the roots:Phrenology
Lyle Lovett:Joshua judges ruth
Lyle Lovett:I Love everybody
The Gospel Soul of Marion williams
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan:Paris concerts
James Brown Live at the apollo1 &2
James Brown:the foundations of funk
Terry Riley:Poppy Nogood
Terry Riley:In C
Terry Riley and Kronos quartet:Salome dances for peace
The Beach Boys Complete Pet sounds sessions
Brian Wilson:Smile
Bob Dylan:Highway 61
Bob Dylan :Nashville skyline
Louis armstrong the hot 5's and sevens complete
Duke Ellington:EVERYTHING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Stating with Black and tan ,at newport,the Blanton webster band
The Ellington Armstrong sessions, the coltrane sessions, the sacred music!
Jon Hassell Maarifa street
Jon Hassell:Power spot
The Modern Jazz quartet:BOx set
The MJQ:Final concert
The MJQ From bach to blues
Aretha Franklin:BOX SET!!!!!!
Aretah Franklin:Amazing grace
The Beatles:Rubber soul
The Beatles:Sgt Peppers
The Beatles
Abbey Road
The Beatles:The white album
The Beatles:Revolver
Georeg harrison All things must pass
Pink Floyd :Pipers at the gates of dawn box
Pink Floyd:animals
Pink Floyd:Dark side of the moon
Pink floyd:Atom heart Mother
Bob Dylan live 1966
The clash London calling
Jefferson airplane:Volunteers
Jefferson airplane:Surrealistic pillow
Memphis sanctified Jug Bands,1928-1930
Yo La tengo:I can hear the heart beating as one
Bjork:Homogenic
Bjork:vespertine
Animal collective:strawberry Jam
Animal Collective:Merriweather post
Jimi Hendrix:Jimi at Monterey
Jimi Hendrix:Hendrix at woodstock
Jimi HendrixAre You expierenced
Jimi Hendrix:Band of Gypsies
DEAD CAN DANCE: 1981-1998
Mahler sympony #2 Leonard bernstein
Ravi Shankar:at monterey pop
Ravi Shankar:Chants of India
Patti smith Horses
Parri smith Trampin'
Patti Smith:The Coral Sea
Curtis Mayfield:Superfly
Curtis Mayfield:Curis live
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin II
Ornette Coleman:EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!
Ornette Coleman:Beauty is a rare thing
Ornette coleman :Complete science fiction sessions
Ornette coleman:Skies of america
Ornette coleman Virgin Beauty
Ornette Coleman:Sound Grammar
John daams:Death of Klinghoffer
John Adams:El Nino
Stravinsky:Psalms
Stravinsky Firebird suite
and finishing out today
The Rite of spring

The Blog author after another Mets defeat

daily

I wake

rub my eyes

breathe deeply

offer gratitude

for all that has happened
all that will
occur
remember to
smile
often
if only as a
reminder
of my
futility
go through the day
each one
oddly different
happy
sad
free
tight
loud
soft
alive
though
each
gratefully
curl up
a comfortable
mattress
a beautiful woman
await
sleep


I wake
rub my eyes
breathe deeply
offer gratitude...

respect

Tolerance is the beginning, not the end result,of respect. How can believers of any faith not respect the inherent beauty of the other? How can LOVE not be universal?Are we not created in the image of LOVE,the love that guides the universe?So often i see and hear the words that create the divides, as, somehow retreating into the fear of faith, we become insular,frightened,xenophobic as opposed to open.Whether one belives or not, we are, each, children of the Creator.We deserve nothing less then the best form and to each other.

a day later

it 's late now
too late?
only history
or those who claim
to make it
tell
the dream
formed on the strangled bones
of the firsts
salted with tears
of the afters
consummated by wealthy landowners
necrophiliacs mostly
all property owners are created
equal
well
sort of
was
is
a lie
always

not to say
that
imperfection should be
abolition
simply
starting with a
startling
falsehood
is a strange way
to start a
relationship
and the legacy
bequeathing
this
our sacred
honor?

holy stones

listen now
the evening smell of lime
and salt
the days hoarse whisper
yawned close
the night
sits away
debating
itself

time
now
for the story
angels dance
on lightning strikes
off water
people huddle
mumbling easy
prayers
into the now

ancient
holy
rocks
the night
always come quickly
here
the sun
is only a guest