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current without oxygen

from A Prelude Of The Aftermath by Walt Kosty & Ralph Bendel

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Then another day you’re listening and the wind carries in a story, a slight breeze perhaps that causes you to quiet your mind. You hear the rippling of the air, sense a caressing hand. The memory of the story circles and lands in your lap reaches up and comes to rest in your head. You begin to breathe, breathing into the memory, and then the wind returns; carries you along in the current.

You go where it takes you.

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the poem:

fallow
but yet addicted
to the ever churning wheel
in truth
it’s an effortless challenge.
as seconds assume their place
in the hierarchy of time set adrift
adrift in this longing without end

do not tell me
what you have heard
when you speak
tell me what you felt
not what you saw
because time casts a defiant
shadow onto hearts
and the smoke
of unattended fires
simply dissipates
in the elusive wind

out there
lost in the under tow
the story goes
that Jim’s father
was an alcoholic
not much of father
more of an alcoholic
ten years had passed
in the space that lay
undisturbed between them
one late night
a crazed distant call came
after the kidnapping
but before Katrina
and arrived unannounced

a slurred landline connection
static bleeping verbs
tears of remorse 90 proof
stumbling along curves
wailing about how baby how baby Ernie
was set aloft into motion
and into the current
the current that burst through
through the windshield

when the old man crashed
into an oak tree one lonely
night in the woods
of southern Louisiana

do not tell me
what you have heard
when you speak
tell me what you felt
not what you saw
because time casts a defiant
shadow onto hearts
and the smoke
of unattended fires
simply dissipates
in the elusive wind

at the bottom of the sea
ancient water trapped
in rock cries out for release
standing here
in this mirage of peace
we are struggling to breath
in current without oxygen
one two three four
exhale inhale
repeat repeat repeat

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from A Prelude Of The Aftermath, released May 14, 2022
The poem was written and performed by Walt Kosty (ASCAP-Studio Magnolia). The music was composed, arranged, and performed by Ralph Bendel (ASCAP-Studio Magnolia) using the Godin ACS-SA and Fender Telecaster guitars with Roland GR55 synthesizer and Alesis SR16. The photograph, "Oh August Moon" is by Walt Kosty.

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