disturbance in the atmosphere

- postmodern poem -
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Sam Cooke without a shadow of a doubt


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Slate blue cloud-cover advances from the west


Voices on the phone skip greetings and identification


Disembodied in the atmosphere,


They simply ask for someone,


Sans quantification,


Talking into a world busted open with connectivity,


While the slate blue clouds come East,


And birds fly West


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Bob Dylan Rolling Thunder Revue


photographs from 1976


announced to be presented in


a new book;


Comments from Guardian Readers:


"Quite possibly the greatest period from the greatest solo artist of all time"


"Agreed 100%"


"Or not - the greatest solo artist of all time is Joni Mitchell - Dylan himself will tell you that"


"She's unlistenable"


"Sam Cooke - without a shadow of a doubt"


...and we think to ourselves, it's like politics,


Back and forth, back and forth,


And different things have different meanings


to different people


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The world has opened


While the sky darkens, and


lowers --


Thunder


Lightning


an abrupt, chilly drop in temperature,


And power-billows of sweeping rain


drive us indoors


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