David Pointer joins the women in music contest with this first poem. The picture above is of Pussy Riot. I couldn't find a public domain picture of them with instruments.
Covert:
Major Summons
The
female fronted bio-punk band was
like
an uninsured motorist, plunging,
plowing
through the crowd issuing
all
citations from the stage in asbestos
boots
and pink gas masks/stun guns
propped
up, toppling elevator music
storming
onto vinyl, CD, and MP3
behind
explosion proof microphones
straining
to distribute melodic throat
choked
vapor as molten vocal darts
from
twin lead singers covering the
club
as joint air-attack team justified
I thought it would be interesting to post Beiderbecke's grave instead of the same old picture of him. However, you may want to see what he looked like.
Song
War Scribbling
It was coffin-lid literature, but
not a song lyric, exhausted I
recalled an antique dealer had
sold a 1920’s microphone style
table lighter out from under me
as I imagined Bix Beiderbecke
dead at 28: breathless, spiritually
bruised and wanting to fire up a
tune about this old time jazz biz
trumpet player that would have
a modern day flapper outspinning
the band, floating on new sound
high-heel torque, and ¾ time….
It was coffin-lid literature, but
not a song lyric, exhausted I
recalled an antique dealer had
sold a 1920’s microphone style
table lighter out from under me
as I imagined Bix Beiderbecke
dead at 28: breathless, spiritually
bruised and wanting to fire up a
tune about this old time jazz biz
trumpet player that would have
a modern day flapper outspinning
the band, floating on new sound
high-heel torque, and ¾ time….
I can't believe how difficult it was to find a public-domain image of someone watching the Vietnam War on TV!!
When
I Was Young: 1967 Cut
Eric
Burdon and the Animals
were
underdog ambassadors
I’d
been waiting for to combat
excessive
parental guidance…
floating
over every idea of fun
like
a fire extinguisher sent to
preserve
international disorder
and
war wearing Velcro smiles
big
as variety show ventriloquists
telling
us invaders were tourists,
never
mentioning the nearly six
million
napalmed civilians lost
behind
the radio static and now
Here is a little music for you. I'll start with Pussy Riot's song in memory and mourning for Eric Garner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXctA2BqF9A
I'm also adding some Bikini Kill here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzMGqVh8G20
Since David mixed in Bix Beiderbecke, I'll include some of his songs.
I'll finish with the Animals:
This collection of music reminds me of the free form radio shows at WMFO in the 1980s. I feel like I ought to include one video of the Grateful Dead:
Enjoy -- and be sure to send your votes to thesongis@gmail.com!
http://thesongis.blogspot.com/2015/06/vote-in-mourning-and-memory.html
http://thesongis.blogspot.com/2015/06/vote-in-mourning-and-memory.html
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