Author Topic: Meat Puppets Bass Player Critical After Shooting  (Read 5625 times)

eddie

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Re: Meat Puppets Bass Player Critical After Shooting
« Reply #15 on: December 03, 2020, 10:50:59 am »
Another Reason Why I Don't Keep A Gun In The House

The neighbors' dog will not stop barking.
He is barking the same high, rhythmic bark
that he barks every time they leave the house.
They must switch him on on their way out.
 
The neighbors' dog will not stop barking.
I close all the windows in the house
and put on a Beethoven symphony full blast
but I can still hear him muffled under the music,
barking, barking, barking,
 
and now I can see him sitting in the orchestra,
his head raised confidently as if Beethoven
had included a part for barking dog.
 
When the record finally ends he is still barking,
sitting there in the oboe section barking,
his eyes fixed on the conductor who is
entreating him with his baton
 
while the other musicians listen in respectful
silence to the famous barking dog solo,
that endless coda that first established
Beethoven as an innovative genius.





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Re: Meat Puppets Bass Player Critical After Shooting
« Reply #16 on: December 03, 2020, 01:01:24 pm »
POTW


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Re: Meat Puppets Bass Player Critical After Shooting
« Reply #18 on: December 03, 2020, 01:46:27 pm »
He was the US Poet Laureate for a bit...under Clinton (?)

Re: Meat Puppets Bass Player Critical After Shooting
« Reply #19 on: December 03, 2020, 01:57:44 pm »
He was the US Poet Laureate for a bit...under Clinton (?)
hmmm...can you name 5 of the last 10 without googling it? (you probably can)
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Re: Meat Puppets Bass Player Critical After Shooting
« Reply #20 on: December 03, 2020, 02:24:43 pm »
There was a time in my life when I could...today not so much.