One syllable was dropped, so here it is again - a basic nine-syllable
line. Delete ad libitum.
"This is my sound!"
happened in the twenties in berlin
you learned everything from schoenberg
even how to light a cigarette
they caught his brother took him to a
cellar beat him up and tortured him
he lost an eye stefan left berlin
he learned from a little arab shepherd
playing a little homemade flute
he was involved in every fibre
were already a dozen voices
was one infatuation nach der andren
was the idea of teaching as a
compositional activity
metaphor was dragged in from any
place under the sun from cooking from
sex from traffic control from warfare
was almost as bad as program notes
at the same time we were all turned on
tremendous experience of the tide
a year later the toccata was
conceived to give back to nature its
shudder
learned a thing or two last century
now we are unlearning them real fast
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"I was crazy to come to this country, because I was liked a free country." - Sacco
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