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Friday, November 02, 2001  

np: for all the gentlemen and dykes, we play our pop-culture rhythms...

"1/2 length" (for kathleen hannah)

i don't think she expects
that i am listening
and if she does i'm sure
she thinks i'm mad
and spouting all the
traditional oathes at her
never belieing
the prejudice she has

and all I do
is feel so small
and wonder what I did
so wrong
to half a race

things she says
they worry me to death
i count and measure
everything i do
and say i'm sorry
to every living thing
for breathing my stench
into their living room

and all I do
is feel so wrong
and count how many times
I did harm
to half a race

it's creeping into
all the parts of me
i curse even my
simplest base desires
for being filthy, dominating
anti-freedom pose
i cannot be a man
cannot be a hu-man.

-------

to those who can recall, london in the fall, i beseech you
cry out to me.

these are the days with sun bearing down through trees in hyde park
the tall marble arch
and albert memorial in the full moon
my breath a cascading cloud, its halo

i walk busy streets and lift up humanity
in the midsts of war and death
everywhere
everyday
i lift you up

i will praise you in my skin
in my life
in my art
for within every single one of you
is me
is god
is you

i have taken on me
the symbol i choose
to represent you all
and my love of this:
this moment
this magic, this universal
heart
b-e-a-t

and i won't stand
to let anyone
deny my
human-abil-ity
i will not
be speared
for what i am born:

me.
and fuck you for thinking otherwise.

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i'm angry as hell. but i've already gone off about this with someone who will undboutedly read it, sigh goodnaturedly, and forgive me for going on and on.

at least, i hope so.

i saw nanci griffith last night. speaking of more positive things. a beautiful, heart rendering set of one of the finest country/folk writers texas has ever produced. she makes my heart tingle. and tonight, it's bastard son of country, jim white. if you haven't heard him..go listen to "handcuffed to a fence in mississippi" and see what i'm talking about. that man rocks. and the handsome family.

i think freewriting wore me out. london is beautiful. i'm in love with this city. and with brynn. and with my new..symbol. *wink* you might know..you might not. i'll post pictures eventually i reckon.

posted by J. Neas | 11/02/2001 11:20:00 AM


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