swans

"Doesn't really matter, you know, what kind of nasty names people invent for the music. But, uh, folk music is just a word, you know, that I can't use anymore. What I'm talking about is traditional music, right, which is to say it's mathematical music, it's based on hexagons. But all these songs about, you know, roses growing out of people's brains and lovers who are really geese and swans are turning into angels - I mean, you know, they're not going to die. They're not folk music songs. They're political songs. They're already dead."
Jude, I'm Not There.

Illustration of goose from here.

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

les libertins

lightning bolts come with thunder
(bass, cymbals, snare, and all)
not a religion, not exactly
gods, these messed up boys, these
military wandering flowersouls,
these drugged up wonders. they are
the womb of music, spilling with ink and
teacups and syringes. scar cover their
skin like smoke from their cigarettes.
they smell like sweat and stardust.
planets stampede on their broken bones
and their ruins govern towers. but
they sing and sing,
they eversing. they eversing.

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