Recitation of...
A Feast of Friends
By Jim Morrison
Wow, I'm sick of doubt
Live in the light of certain
South
Cruel bindings.
The servants have the power
dog-men and their mean women
pulling poor blankets over
our sailors
(And where were you in our lean hour)
Milking your moustache
or grinding a flower?
I'm sick of dour faces
Staring at me from the TV
Tower, I want roses in
my garden bower; dig?
Royal babies, rubies
must now replace aborted
Strangers in the mud
These mutants, blood-meal
for the plant that's plowed.
They are waiting to take us into
the severed garden
Do you know how pale and wanton thrillful
comes death on a strange hour
unannounced, unplanned for
like a scaring over-friendly guest you've
brought to bed
Death makes angels of us all
and gives us wings
where we had shoulders
smooth as raven's
claws
No more money, no more fancy dress
This other kingdom seems by far the best
until its other jaw reveals incest
and loose obedience to a vegetable law.
I will not go
Prefer a Feast of Friends
To the Giant Family.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fIqq6OnD-A
Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
William Shakespeare
From The Tempest, Act 4 Scene 1 Prospero
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbziiWq_lJM
I don’t own the rights to this song. With gratitude to the BeeJees and all artists, across the world.
❤️
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grcXHCM3KDk
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References (incomplete)
Writer: On Socialist Realism by Abram Tertz with intro by Czeslaw Milosz 1959
Poet: Mao Tse-Tung Talks at the Yenan Forum on Literature and Art 1956
References:
Theater Artist: Peter Brook; The Empty Space
Theater Artist: Meyerhold
Play-write: Ibsen
Writer (“dissident” / “politician”) Vaclav Havel; Power of the Powerless
Poet: Charles Bukowski; The Genius of the Crowd
Writer: (“cultural critic”) Eugene Ionesco
Writer: Shakespeare’s sonnet 30
Writer: Pasternak
Artist: Ai Wei Wei
“Unable to create art they will not understand art. They will see their failure as creators only as a failure of the world.” -Bukowski
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Keep the ghost light on.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9rECUZI9cA
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akzvmlOyb5I