Playlist:
Knowledge and Conversation - Dead Sea Apes
Did You Pay Cash For That Panic Attack - Royal Chant
Super Ordinary - Claws and Organs
Make My Sun Shine - Swim Deep
You Me and the Alarm Clock - Johnny Dangerously
Black Water Gold (Pearl) - African Music Machine
Numb - Hey Bulldog
Neither Seen Nor Heard - The Ivory Drips
Shadow - Honeyfeet
We Never Win - Whales In Cubicles
Shadow Dub - Hollie Cook
from A Man Young and Old
by William Butler Yeats
XI
From 'Oedipus at Colonus'
Endure what life God gives and ask no longer span;
Cease to remember the delights of youth, travel-wearied aged man;
Delight becomes death-longing if all longing else be vain.
Even from that delight memory treasures so,
Death, despair, division of families, all entanglements of mankind grow,
As that old wandering beggar and these God-hated children know.
In the long echoing street the laughing dancers throng,
The bride is catried to the bridegroom's chamber
through torchlight and tumultuous song;
I celebrate the silent kiss that ends short life or long.
Never to have lived is best, ancient writers say;
Never to have drawn the breath of life, never to have
looked into the eye of day;
The second best's a gay goodnight and quickly turn away.
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