Wednesday, October 10, 2007

More Than Style

This is Garamond at 16 point on this computer
Subject to, pursuant to, the hegemony of this time
This is the story thus far
The wind scattering the leaves
In the capitol

Can you see the time in motion?
Born in the usa, completed catholic schooling
Managed to rise out of superstition
But it took forty years and truly I am still a
Man who seeks retribution, a xtian/jewish need

Could I rise above this time?
This is Garamond at 16 points

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Jaguar Fred you distress me and I see you may have left now.
Your satellite in the Beach Cities there is nothing I can tell you
That you don’t already understand but where does that
Take us, in the nightly depths?

He ports his ancient altered self
Into today’s remembrance.
Are you there with your brother?
Is there alchemy in your life?
Does She come to you in your dreams
as She does in mine?

Because I can't control the typeface here, so I lose the actual image that started this. I have occasionally spoken to my friend on the west coast, trying to clear out the destructive brush in my mind, but I haven't heard from him in awhile. We both celebrate the Lady, in our own ways. Ranyard once wrote a novel in which a Jaguar, the car, defeated a Corvette, in a reprise of the Jan and Dean song "Dead Man's Curve".

The title is a reference to Arthur Lee and his group Love, from their seminal sixties album, Forever Changes. Here is the reference from "The Red Telephone":
This is the time and life that I am living
And I'll face each day with a smile
For the time that I've been given's such a little while
And the things that I must do consist of more than style.

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