<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460494" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0027 That Baker Boy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">and allowing that<br>records only record what’s recorded –<br>that’s, written records – the sounds are something else -</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the records say<br>that for most of your waking life<br>you were out of this world on drugs<br>or when you weren’t, you behaved<br>appallingly; excepting when you sang and played, <br>when, all agreed, you were ‘out of this world’..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and yet, you wrote an autobiography<br>or should we say memoir, that is, <br>what you might remember, which<br>is a catalogue of innocence, of purity, <br>of life as good, well lived…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">so I would not like to be<br>your prosecuting counsel, taking you through<br>this litany, each deed, each word..<br>I don’t think I could bear the pain..<br>was it what you really thought you were, <br>or what you would have wished to be? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I’ll settle for the love you whisper<br>in the ‘standards’, convincing us they’re holy writ; <br>pausing just where truth itself would pause; <br>and blowing the truth that finds and speaks itself<br>between the lips and lungs and trumpet’s mouthpiece; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">like some ancient seer or sibyl, shaman, visionary, <br>speaking, singing, truths which yet you do not know<br>or have forgotten. It seems that genius knows<br>the greatness of the art of which it is<br>(apt phrase) the mouthpiece; and all else<br>is of this world; subservient.</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=460494" data-title="0027 That Baker Boy de Michael Shepherd" data-description="and allowing that records only record what’s recorded – that’s, written records – the sounds are something else - the records say that for most of your waking life you were out of this world on drugs or when you weren’t, you behaved app..."></div> </div> </div>

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