Monday, September 29, 2008

The Experiment

I was thinking last week about doing something a bit different on the blog. Was thinking how listening to music, some lines jump out at you and begin throttling your imagination. Thought that perhaps a way of dealing with this would be to take such a line and expand on the idea, however it made your thoughts and blood flow at at a given point. Then version 2.0 suggested much the same so that confirmed the validity of the idea and I decided i might as well experiment.

"Yo, it kinda made me think of way back when,

I was the portrait of an artist as a young man." (Talib Kweli)

Given to remember

How I used to scribe everything on crumpled paper

That fit it my pocket,

whose words sought no profit

Yet, whatever was said and scribbled in the flashes of youth

Swirled across the sky at sunset as evening brought truth

Once, I once thought of my place in the world

Beside

That ginger haired girl

We would take the air we breathed and cup it in our hands

Made a wish; blew it out, over across the land

I stood beside her gazing across

A mutual horizon spinning our thoughts

Art is nothing more than the ache in my heart

Art is nothing more than playing our part

If love is to save all who come and move within our sphere

Then our art shall have nothing to fear

You will paint the stress and the peace of a mind ravaged

I shall create a story of a time that is savage

Then once upon sometime not too far from now

We will say we loved, we made art and knew how

peacelovefreedomejustice

-s

"this has been an experiment from the Free City."

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