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Cravings
“Oh hell”, whined Sophia. “I can’t listen to this anymore. Why do you have to treat me like this?” “Who needs you anyway?” snarled Constantine. “You and your whining make me sick.” They talk like this a long time, walking down the street. A homeless man approaches them and gives them some advice. “A man’s…
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Kaleidoscope Tower
Colours, gleam A fine bird perches; in the eye, colours swirl There is music, music turning. It stands tall and proud, unmoved, as the singing rings, and the dead die, and the living live. And the Gold, Silver, and Wood gleam beside. The music box remains.
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Old Blue Eyes
Alone, Frank Sinatra slowly sheds a tear. He wishes he could quit smoking, while he sits by the river. Ol’ Blue Eyes doesn’t want to sing anymore. Frank never liked Led Zeppelin, but they dedicated an album to something he desired. Led Zeppelin III is dedicated to ‘the idea of forgotten completeness’- recorded in an…
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Long Beach Pet Sounds
Brian Wilson started a rock band with his brothers and friends in the early 60s, called the Beach Boys. He lived in a suburb of Los Angeles (Hawthorne), and became an international superstar, recognized for his musical genius. He has outlived many of his band mates. Calvin Broadus, known professionally as Snoop Dogg, started a…
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Tears In Rain
In the film ‘Blade Runner‘, the question that all of the characters grapple with is “What does it mean to be human? And, what effect does our humanity have on our actions?” “Blade Runner” displays the emotional reactions (love, hate, sorrow), that Replicants (humanoid robots) have, and the relationships they have with each other, in…
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Contrived
Some men pull a wagon wheel, and vomit in a bag Some men crystallize in bone, and leave themselves to hang I never really liked the smell of vomit or dead skin But I love the wagon man his walk And the bone man his sin
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High Strung Poetry and Analysis 