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Re: [motm] A farewell to bliss.

2011-04-28 by Paul Schreiber

It's not 1999 anymore (sigh....)

Paul S.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John L Rice" <Drummer@...>
To: "'adambaileynow'" <criticalstories@...>; <motm@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 8:27 PM
Subject: RE: [motm] A farewell to bliss.


> Wow, beautifully written although seriously tragic! What happened?
> 
> John L Rice
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: motm@yahoogroups.com [mailto:motm@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
>> adambaileynow
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 6:09 PM
>> To: motm@yahoogroups.com
>> Subject: [motm] A farewell to bliss.
>> 
>> Farewell Modular synthesizer!
>> 
>> Your assemblage strewn asunder.
>> Echoes of Moog, Eno, Radigue,... Xenakis!
>> 
>> and dearest Wendy.
>> 
>> Your quavering dulcet tones took me to inner,
>> and outer spaces.
>> 
>> Deeper than the Detroit abyss.
>> 
>> Said it was my dream since I was but seven years from the womb.
>> 
>> We felt chosen to tame you.
>> 
>> Christened by fiery chariots.
>> 
>> Blessed by the rusted steamrollers upon Mannheim.
>> 
>> Icy play-fields:
>> rinks of glass and flame.
>> 
>> Regret that I wanted to possess you so,
>> fully.
>> 
>> No man can truly possess a beautiful and wild entity as thine self!
>> 
>> That I now know.
>> 
>> 
>> Too soon have I lost you.
>> 
>> The chasm in my heart is unknowable to the uninitiated.
>> 
>> A bleak mystery of bereavement, solitude, and acridine tears.
>> 
>> 
>> I weep alone.
>> 
>> 
>> Someday again I swear to lay eager hand upon your metle shores!
>> 
>> Gentle, apt fingertips will adore your lines as Apollo would have
>> Daphne's,
>> before the beckoning river,
>> and the sorrowful refrain of the rustling Laurel tree.
>> 
>> 
>> I am undone.
>> 
>> 
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