Mercury Rev - So There (As Read by Robert Creeley)

Mercury Rev provide accompaniment to Robert Creeley while he reads his poem "So There"

So There
-- for Penelope Highton

Da. Da. Da da. Where is the song.
Whats wrong with life

ever. More? Or less
days, nights, these

days. What's gone is gone forever
every time, old friend's voice here. I want

to stay, somehow, if I could
if I would? Where else to go.

The sea here's out the window, old
switcher's house, vertical, railroad blues, lonesome

whistle, etc. Can you think of Yee's Cafe
in Needles, California opposite the train

station can you keep it ever
together, old buddy, talking to yourself again?

Meantime some yuk in Hamilton has blown
the whistle on a charming evening I wanted

to remember otherwise the river there, that
afternoon, sitting, friends, wine & chicken,

watching the world go by. Happiness, happiness
so simple. What's that anger is that

competition sad! -- when this at least
is free, to put it mildly.

My aunt Bernice in Nokomis,
Florida's last act, a poem for Geo. Washington's

birthday. Do you want to say It's bad?
In America, old sport, we shoot first, talk later,

or just take you out to dinner. No worries, or not
at the moment, sitting here eating bread,

cheese, butter, white wine like Bolinas, Whale Town,
my home, like they say, in America. It's one world,

it can't be another. So the beauty,
beside me, rises, looks now out window

and breath keeps on breathing, heart's pulled in
a sudden, deep, sad longing, to want

to stay be another person some day,
when I grow up. The world's somehow

forever that way and its lovely, roily,
shifting shores, sounding now, in my ears. My ears?

Well, what's on my head as two skin appendages,
comes with the package, I don't want to

argue the point. Tomorrow
it changes, gone, abstract, new places

moving on. Is this some old time weird
Odysseus trip sans paddle up

the endless creek? Thinking of you,
baby, thinking of all the things

I'd like to say and do. Old fashioned time
it takes to be anywhere, at all.

Moving on. Mr. Ocean, Mr. Sky's
got the biggest blue eyes in creation

here comes the sun! While we can,
let's do it, let's have fun.

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• Robert Creeley

[DubWang]

finally on youtube ... nice one

[poolsidenyc]

Havent dug it since 15 years. Nice.