the grace of a corpse

the dead do not talk
the dead don't walk
the dead do not drive
the dead don't arrive
the dead do not play
the dead don't delay
the dead do not dissipate
the dead are never late

I can't tell you exactly what it is that the dead do
but they do it very well

Upcoming

So I've got a gig coming up. Here's the facebook events page, right here. I'm gonna be doing a lil' reading, don't have a show as yet but I do have a name. Rolling Stone, Vogue it's called. With a name like that you don't even have to have a show but hopefully should do by then. Time will tell. It inevitably does. See ya there.


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The Unwelcome Blues

There once was a lil' blue welcome mat
Who fell in love with the drop of a hat
Everyday hearing it's soft brown lil' felt pat
She didn't know why she loved it but she loved it and that's that
Blossoming, Blossoming underfoot

But one day there came one day
That that soft brown lil' felt pat went away 
What once was brown had now turned grey
The welcome mat feelin' like a heroine in a tragic play 
Dismay, dismay underboot

So Mr Caraway's welcomes became unwell
Though she read BLESS YOU her lil' heart was goin' through hell
Cos' o' how much she missed her lil' beau, or her lil' belle
Entering the house was different, why Mr Caraway couldn't tell
But felt it in his soul and on the soles o' his feet

I can't help falling in love with you

I've always loved this song, I can't help it probably. It's a song about inevitability. There's a difference between inevitability and inevetibalities. There's something reassuring about inevitability, it means you don't have to struggle so much. It just flows. There's something crushing about inevitabilities, it means you will have to struggle more. You get stuck in your tracks. Damn. We are born in to inevitability, inevitabilities are thrust upon us. Inevitability has grace, inevitabilities, if you're lucky, willl give you grace.  
  Inevitability is things like the sun coming out tomorrow (or not), the river flowing surely to the sea, just those things that happen or not. This song is about the inevitability of love. Some may find the inevitabilty of love to be a romantic notion. It's not really. Everybody loves somebody (or something) sometime and romance has fuck all to do with it. It's just part of life. As long as life exists love will exist in 1 or 2 or whatever ways of its various forms.
  As long as life exists death will exist in 1 or 2 or whatever ways of its various forms. In Slaughterhouse 5 after somebody or something dies the author writes so it goes. In this song when someone falls in love the singer sings darling so it goes.
  Some things are meant to be. Or not to be. Also, some things were meant to be.Or not to be. There's solace in that.

" 'Even now,' she thought, 'almost no one remembers Esteban and Pepita but myself. Camila alone remembers her Uncle Pio and her son; this woman, her mother. But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead, and and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.' "

Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey