covid music https://youtu.be/uIYxD3uDPQg VIDEO http://www.alansondheim.org/hegelung.jpg because my playing is ragged because i start and stop because notes are elided because tones are added because i can't remember what i might have forgotten because i might have forgotten something i can't remember because my fingers might skip one position for another because my fingers might add another position for another because i stop and start o fear of dying and reconciliation because i start and stop o love of birth and separation because i might dance to the right tune at the wrong time and dance to the wrong tune at the right time holding time with the rhythm of my feet and thought of garden losing time with the rhythm of my hands and memory and memory of something i might have forgotten if i could remember and forgetting something i might have remembered i can't remember and the fingers stopping and starting over the days of the week over the weekly days and hours of the days over the hourly days and what has been happening to months and what has been happening to years what century might we be returning and remembering yes i'm playing the hegelung and the hegelung what a beautiful instrument this is watching my fingers dance the string and strings losing and finding rhythm and memories of the dance memories of the song and the grace of the hegelung as the narrowing of the ibis or graceful bill of another always another as my fingers move o i am trying to remember to remember i'm playing the hegelung and this november and this november and november and oh yes this november and a tuesday perhaps or thursday so many days of the week so many weeks but less than the number of days so many months but less than the number of weeks there were hours in the day and then there were more hours there were minutes there were some minutes in the day and i think yes some minutes in the hour there had to be some seconds somewhere dust falling i am playing the hegelung i am playing the hegelung and i am playing the hegelung i am playing the hegelung i am playing the hegelung because my playing is ragged it is beautiful because it is beautiful because it is the hegelung o all the patience in the world o all the patients in the world __ gloss: perhaps too poetic, an escape perhaps, perhaps just poor playing, deteriorating body? i don't think so but itdt (in these dark times) who can tell anything? to anyone? it's a period of negative potential, positivity teetering on potential loss, negativity harboring potential gain. i just don't know none of us does, do we? do they? who are they? who are we? who am i? now that i've descended as far as i can into commonalities, i'll quit while i'm ahead. __ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
