<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460288" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Sound of Cities</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Turn on again, that old, once new film of your life -<br>it's called the 'establishing shot'; and as it pans<br>across your once-favourite city, corny in the sunshine, <br>arty in the dusk and rain, the home to all your dreams, <br>the music slides in, takes the reins, the heartstrings of recall...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">New York: for some of certain age, the needle hiss<br>before the recording studio draws in, lung-deep <br>the low lights, the clink of glasses, murmur, <br>- the film's in blackandwhite, the evening suits, the faces too -<br>as the silky rhythm, the syncopated beat<br>tells the old old story of a love that's sour or sweet..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Pacific Coast: a background seethe of waves; <br>the studio's Zen-silent; reminiscent saxophone, <br>a dreaming horn, a rhythm barely sketched; <br>is it the silence that draws out the sounds, <br>or sounds (as in the haunting - plink - of Japan's films) <br>that serve to paint the silence? ...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Paris: rooftops in the rain; and yes, its blackandwhite again: <br>accordeon plays first, a cardboard lung<br>wheezing out a memory of the dance of love<br>or barrel-organ, cranking out a background<br>like an old toothpaste tube; it's only half-believed<br>like some street-beggar's story; but you both know<br>that memory's longing for this sweet dipped madeleine<br>of romance and the words of love, from that endless source<br>and flow of Seine, its quays, its honest poverty, <br>its silver-grey and words of love...</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460288" data-title="The Sound of Cities de Michael Shepherd" data-description="Turn on again, that old, once new film of your life - it's called the 'establishing shot'; and as it pans across your once-favourite city, corny in the sunshine, arty in the dusk and rain, the home to all your dreams, the music slides in, takes ..."></div> </div> </div>

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