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Boots & Rod. Photographed
by Edward, May 2010. ©2010 By Stanyan Music Group. All Rights Reserved
A Thought for Today
Better a false spring than a true winter.
FROM the¨BOOKS
GREY ON GRAY
You can point out mold
to some,
bring old diggings
and old bones into a conversation
or show them black garbed women
who only live to dress the saints,
and they will still believe
that death will never touch them.
These people are protected
by a kind of faith
religion or the mystic
cannot follow.
Not just fear but fantasy
is their imaginations icon.
It is this little band
of self believers
who do great damage, cause distress
and puncture others lives.
Alas, there are no strangers
anymore
and no strange places
left to see.
Even Eden has been settled.
And Lazarus could not afford
the real estate to rise from.
The phoenix coming up
from ancient ash and embers
would have to grope his way
through layers of decaying birds.
Hush, hush, don’t fret
but be prepared
to go this time and stay.
- from "Valentines," 1986
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