bought three albums today. i'm on sort of a black history month tip, though in all actuality i've been on this thing for most of my adult life. do you know me? i love soul music. i love. this music. i love Something even more than this music. Alicia Keys' new album. Very contemporary. Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings. Do you know this? i love soul music. they are doing something very retro...or is it? Lastly. Young, Gifted, and Black, Aretha Franklin circa 1972. Undecidedly classic. Quite possibly this album belongs in my top 5 along with Another Side of Bob Dylan and Glenn Gould's Goldberg Variations...Home on the Range. A ranch, a few albums, some whiskey, paradise...Paradise.
Feeling very all over the map, I'll do what is best and quote someone else. I found this woman recently on a bookshelf. Published a book of poems that are fucking strange and ridiculously good. she was born in 1978, huh:
What You Think When You Are Confused
I knew that somehow in the midst of this confusion
Was the true dawning of myself.
My soul was a man and like a man
I would wander forever among the stars and flowers, lonely.
My heart a lonely star with no matching star
Anywhere in the universe and even so
Looking like a man for somewhere
To rest my freedom and resent it.
--Dorothea Lasky
(my apologies to ms. lasky, copyright laws and all that. i just really like your stuff and i hate you for publishing poems at my age)
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