1. |
Introduction
00:40
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2. |
Double Dealing
01:36
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4. |
Evidence
01:25
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#17
"evidence"
for penny
if it were just
you, just me,
or as monk would
have it,
justice
would be served
but our sentence
is not so short
& our courtship's been so long—oh,
if it were just
the 2 of us, to start
a new life
together, but let the record
indicate,
the evidence
is piled up
all over town—
my older daughter
living here with me,
my younger
with her mother,
your older daughter
over with your mother
& the little one
holed up with you—
a chord
structure under
pinning whatever melody
or song we can make of it—
not just us, baby, but the fine
fine thing fate has made of us
—detroit
june 24, 1982
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5. |
Suburban Eyes
02:29
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#3
"suburban eyes"
for mary
they say the grass is
always greener
on the other side of the street
but when you get there
it's not, it just
looked like that
for a minute there,
& then it's gone. you're in
the same old place, only the people
are changed,
& the surroundings,
& the quality of life
which is not there. only you
are the same, everything else
is completely different.
now you are not there,
no, now you are the thing
that has changed
or has not changed
in all the confusion. you carry
all the places you've been
around inside of you,
the virginia countryside,
the streets of paterson, new jersey,
the apartments on the east side
of detroit, the northwest side,
in oak park. & now the house
where you brought me
to be all the men in your life,
absent like your father,
present like your two husbands,
or like the uncles who misused you as a child—
just like that, there were too
many of them & only the one
of me at hand. so,
although
i was there to stay
you sent me away
& as fate would have it,
the woman i left for you
was good enough to take me back
into the city
& into her heart again
where i intend to remain
(this is not,
by the way,
a monk piece. monk
never left
the middle
of the city
until his work was over
& consequently
the city
never left monk.
& for me, well,
i should have stayed there
in the heart
of the city
where i sure enough belong
—oak park, mi
may 30, 1984/
amsterdam
january 6, 2013
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6. |
I Mean You
01:35
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#20
"i mean you"
for penny
it's not just a case
of wanting to be in love
as if it didn't matter
just who you are
or the particularities, like
the way you make my blood race,
the certain taste of your skin,
or just how soulful you are
in every way, & how deeply
& completely you understand me
in all the nutty complexity
of my being—it's your intelligence,
your exquisite taste in music,
& the warmth of you i want,
baby, the warmth of you i want
like i've never wanted anyone else
—detroit
september 18, 1984
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7. |
Four In One
00:30
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8. |
Reflections
01:33
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10. |
Crepescule With Nellie
04:12
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13. |
I Surrender Dear
02:21
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14. |
Locomotive
01:20
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15. |
All Alone
02:12
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16. |
Boo Boo's Birthday
01:02
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17. |
Just One Way To Say
01:22
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18. |
Bye Ya
02:35
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19. |
Willow Weep For Me
01:16
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20. |
I Didn't Know About You
01:58
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21. |
Sixteen
01:07
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22. |
Criss Cross
01:47
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23. |
I'll Follow You
02:51
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24. |
John Sinclair Detroit, Michigan
"Sinclair is an iconic figure of ‘60s counterculture, famous for, among other things, having co-founded the anti-racist
White Panther Party"
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"John has taken the Blues, many Blues, many Blues singers, their words, their feeling, their lives, their conditions, the places and traces of where they was and is.
--Amiri Baraka.
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