KBYD March 18, 2015

KBYD March 18, 2015 by Kbyd on Mixcloud

Playlist:

Da Da Da Beasts - Asian Women on the Telephone

Promises - Monophonics

Cut The Roof Off Your Car - Boys Boys Boys

Heat - The Higsons

Walk a Line - Them Bruins

Hiders Waltz - Motion Picture Actress
Degobah System - Wounded Lion
Fly Boy Blue / Lunette - Elbow
Gate 49 - Stiff Little Fingers
Camels - The Electric Cheese
I Knew It - Silverclub

Yoop - Garden of Elks
The Curse - Sex Hands
Firewalker - Jungle Fire
Funky Donkey - The Beastie Boys

Poem:

The Blue Swallows

by Howard Nemerov

Across the millstream below the bridge

Seven blue swallows divide the air

In shapes invisible and evanescent,

Kaleidoscopic beyond the mind’s

Or memory’s power to keep them there.

“History is where tensions were,”

“Form is the diagram of forces.”

Thus, helplessly, there on the bridge,

While gazing down upon those birds—

How strange, to be above the birds!—

Thus helplessly the mind in its brain

Weaves up relation’s spindrift web,

Seeing the swallows’ tails as nibs

Dipped in invisible ink, writing…

Poor mind, what would you have them write?

Some cabalistic history

Whose authorship you might ascribe

To God? to Nature? Ah, poor ghost,

You've capitalized your Self enough.

That villainous William of Occam

Cut out the feet from under that dream

Some seven centuries ago.

It’s taken that long for the mind

To waken, yawn and stretch, to see

With opened eyes emptied of speech

The real world where the spelling mind

Imposes with its grammar book

Unreal relations on the blue

Swallows. Perhaps when you will have

Fully awakened, I shall show you

A new thing: even the water

Flowing away beneath those birds

Will fail to reflect their flying forms,

And the eyes that see become as stones

Whence never tears shall fall again.

O swallows, swallows, poems are not

The point. Finding again the world,

That is the point, where loveliness

Adorns intelligible things

Because the mind’s eye lit the sun.