Of Peaches and The Universe Next Door
By miraclemiles on April 21, 2024 11:31 pm
Featuring 2Sanguine, my father, on vocals. He's visiting us from his den on the rainier side of the state this week. I asked him what he wanted to contribute to this week's track, and he said he wanted to read some poetry. We had a great couple of hours sitting at the dining room table, talking about poetry and life and recording him reading. He has some poems that have stuck with him over the years, and some favorite classic authors that happened to be in a book I had handy where we discovered some old favorites.
The poems I ended up choosing for the track are, in this order:
- [in Just-] by E.E. Cummings (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47247/in-just)
- To a Poor Old Woman by William Carlos Williams (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51653/to-a-poor-old-woman)
- The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot (partially read) (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/44212/the-love-song-of-j-alfred-prufrock)
----> 2Sanguine says he often says a line from this as he rolls up his trousers in the morning, since he's shrinking in his old age.
- pity this busy monster, manunkind, by E.E. Cummings (https://allpoetry.com/pity-this-busy-monster,-manunkind)
Music is from a live Creatures Once band jam with myself and bandmate Monstrosus. He sounds amazing guitar. A real family and friends collab here. Grateful for all of it.
And grateful for all of your music, WB crew!
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