Hellisinus. Absinth and amber.
Bitter barrows along ghostly roads.
Cold diamonds in her bloodbold eyes.
Beneath the crows and sparrows, flowing...
All along those dusty codas.
Lakeside romances where the cicadas come to make music,
come to lie. Lay and sway and dance and play,
where the next of November is fey.
We drink golden cups to suck the silken stuffs of gods,
the flowers from Hades we taste
to copulate in their gardens;
wicked and damned.
To degredate our names
in sin,
in stone,
in grey gravestones
and eat the earthen worms
& broken words of dead poets...
Defile ouselves on walls
& profanities
& paint our toenails green,
beneath unfinished clouds;
listening to Steve Vai
in a lighter shade,
in gentle ways
whispering
"Frank"
in burning blue essence,
like a Boston Rain Melody
that somehow gets away.
Where will all the little islands go
when the stars collide?
Absinth now and sin within,
this hell in us
all. This fire garden.
Die to live. Live to
be within.
(eNd.)
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
~Inspired by a friend;
you know who you are,
little birdie! Watch out, kittens have claws...
I think I'm a "radio"...heh, heh.
(But not the "Oh, radio").
(And just in case anyone is wondering, "Frank" is a song by the
wizard guitarist Steve Vai [Grammy Award-winning guitarist,
composer and record producer.; a song in honour to the genius
that was Frank Zappa who gave Vai his start...transcribing
some of Zappa's seemingly endless arrays of
experimental symphonic monster rock operas.
Vai is Zappa's "little Italian virtuoso"
&
listed as "stunt guitarist!"
Check out the lyrics, and then the song "Stevie's Spanking". Also,
"Boston Rain Melody"
is an enchanting Steven Siro Vai
soft/melodic instrumental...
"Die to live" isanotherVaisongtitle.
I was listening, obviously, to Steve Vai
while writing "Helianthus" and his music seemed
the perfect soundtrack to the poem. I've been fortunate
to see Vai a few times in concert, and I saw Zappa once,
shortly before he passed on to
that Eternal Fire Garden,
or the Great Gig in the Sky...
"As Above, So Below").
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