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NONVIOLENT MUSIC

Elephants murdered

for ivory piano keys,

 cats for

violin strings

goats for drumskins

(for that matter,

chickens for drumsticks.)

Is music more beautiful when

the instrument is nonviolent?

Is a flame more smokeless

when the candle's not made of lard?

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GREAT WRITERS' ADVICE

"I don't give opinions. I let my characters
do that." -Stephen King-

"Beauty is framed in space."
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh-

Footnote:

some are paraphrased

COPYRIGHTS AND PATENTS

God doesn't claim that artists plagiarize

when they paint fanned peacock eyes

nor accuse of infrigement of copyright

those who His meditation whispers down write.

Nor indict as forgers those who paint His sunset skyart

But God disapproves of those who patent his rainforest plants.

I kiss her Apocalypse,

She strums my violet skinny ribs,

I pluck her violin string hair,

finely tuning the walk up the long white winding stairs,

He looks down at us from a prism,

Not a sound to cry,

A Fool laughs,

Just listen,

A new symphony,

Made of old love and sadness,

Of magic made in the throughs of love and madness,

Tightrope walking on Epiphany,

It will never come,

Death,

Life,

Just the inevitable fall and rise,

I can make something real,

It may be ugly,

Everything makes us happy,

A Falling Fall leaf defines the seasons seed,

to defy beautiful,

I shall not,

It holds it's own hemisphere,

quaking and shaking,

I have been inside for too long,

The break in the gate will not last long,

A slow moving fog,

One last song

I kiss her Apocalypse,

She strums my violet skinny ribs