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523 b.c.
did you abandon all your articles
when you shed your hippie skin
did you swallow down your dictionary and find a quiet spot to bury that secret chord you found among your travel souveniers
did you confront the inner city
in all its joy and pain and german beer
or sneak over the border where the berkeley wise men teach and talk your way round a melody while the waves crashed
on the beach
did you write down every town you were where you wrote down every tune
did you dance under the starwheel
where the night train passed
beneath a tropic moon
do you vent your rage and pace your cage at all the trouble you’ve never seen
do you wonder at the world of beauty in every leaf in every falling tree
is gavin’s woodpile higher than when i first saw you saturday when you mused on good and evil behind that florentine cutaway
you might say we’re only humans or i suppose it might be sing to the hoop dance rhythm of an ancient man chanting in a forgotten tongue
have you air’d out all the badness
did you get that late phone call
did you ever send those photos raise the morning star or repair the kitchen wall
when you broke out of the folk bins did they try to put you back
did the rhythm of great big circumstance ever help you to make contact
did you tip-toe through the jungle with your solar-powered thumb and write a top-ten for prometheus after time and salt and sun
did you see the circle widen
did you know you struck a spark
could you see me brushing away that tear in the back of the room in the dark
when you called upon all stumblers to illuminate the night and admonished us t’ward charity and open heart
and a fiercely burning light
tom kelly’s bike rumbles down
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