Overread at the Counter: Poem for 9-11 and Orange Caligula

 What Once Was Music Is Now the Crashing of Towers

What once was music is now the crashing of towers,
Tumultuous tumbling down to bury the bodies
Of people known, and unknown, and no longer known,

And every breath we draw is the drawing of ashes
Of the trees that once gave us air, now dying
In the flames of our iniquity, our perdition

Now takes our tears and rises the oceans,
Until the waves overtake us, and we drown;

All this is nonsense, insensate.  The music
That once was our love is now merely the 
Clanging of cymbals, the clanging of a madman

Who laughs at us, telling us that our deaths,
In the rubble, in the fire, in the depths of the oceans,
All these deaths 
Is simply is
What it is.



MR
2020-0911

Overheard at Table 2: Salinghetti Chronicles Vol 332 Track 3

SC Vol 332 t3

I'm not the one for going,
nor for false explosions
I'm not the one for knowledge, nor
the valley of past experiences,

and I know that you are with me
and I know there is no resistance
and I know that which will contain us
will carry us through the distance,

and you have blossomed all my friendships
and you have shown me how to touch
and you have offered me a tall ship
to sail into the distance
to sail into the distance

where we will never more be found.



MR
2020-09

Overheard at Table 2: The Salinghetti Chronicles Vol 316 Disc 2

316 d2 t17

Everybody wants to live their lives.  August wants to be alone.

They were left in the car park.  They didn’t know which way they were supposed to go.

They kissed in the garden.  They found a tiny place to pray.

Overheard at Table 1: Don't Wanna Be on a Ventilator

Well, I don't wanna be on a ventilator
Just pull that plug and I'll see you later
Don't keep me here, don't be a hater.
I don't wanna be on ventilator

If I happen to catch some strange disease
Don't want no machine to make my heart beat
Cut the power and let my soul roam free
If I happen to catch some strange disease.

Well, I don't wanna be on a ventilator
Just pull that plug and I'll see you later
Don't keep me here, don't be a hater.
I don't wanna be on ventilator

Well, I don't wanna be on a ventilator
Just pull that plug and I'll see you later


MR
2020-0908

Overheard at Table 4: Jesu or Elize

Niall Carter: JESU JOY OF MAN'S DESIRING!

John Steppenwolf: FUR ELIZE!!!

Ava Gouday: Oh God, are they arguing about the most beautiful song again?

Lucky Moran: Yeah, looks like it.

Ava: Oh Lordy, when do they start throwing coffee cups at each other.

Lucky: Duck!

Overheard at Table 3: Preparing for Bible Study

Whenever I prepare for Bible study, I'm usually petrified.

Because you want to get the Word right?

Well, actually it's because of my wife.

Your wife?

Yeah ... she's always like "You froze on that part" or "You didn't go deep enough" or "You gave too much unnecessary detail" or "You were boring people" and I'm always completely wigged out!

You can't prepare Bible studies to please your wife.  You gotta prepare them to honor God.

I know, but it's tough.   God doesn't speak to me as clearly as my wife does!

Overheard at Booth 1: Things They Said ... Not

I didn't say that.  It was probably Confucius.

- Sophocles


Sophocles is a lying twat.

- Confucius


Don't want to get in the middle of that.

- Abraham Lincoln


I'm not sayin' nuthin'.

- Mark Twain


Who am I to judge?

- Oliver Wendell Holmes