(III Rewrite - 02/22/2019)
terribly beautiful tears welling
eyes and chest heaving in
and out I tremble to write
something anything even one
word, damn it, shaken and shook
my head shaking words can’t describe
this no .... NO .... nothing at all
I gasp enraptured
-Gary Edward Geraci
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Gary Edward Geraci (
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- Comment from author about the poem: Beauty. Breathtaking beauty. (Original Blog Text Posted in 2007 by Gary E. Geraci, hyperlinks added this posting - Actual names and addresses redacted by author, May 2012. Where indicated, all dates and case numbers are authentic and can be retrieved under Federal Open Records law.) Music courses through my body, blood, and soul. Music is the salve, the spirit which animates my mind, body, and soul. Greater than any other singular force, refreshing, sustaining, pushing, and motivating, I have elicited a lifetime of benefits from all that is musical. I am in deep gratitude for such divine gift. Inspiration drawn from music has sustained my spirit during the deepest, darkest hours especially when staring down seemingly insurmountable adversity. During my approximate year long legal battle against Mortgage Bank WF, I can define a particular genre of music that dominated my world: hard rock. One band in particular, Slipknot, produced a double live album called “9.0. Live.” This work single handedly accompanied and sustained my soul during the countless hours consumed researching law and writing legal documents and briefs. The spectacle of the live show this album memorialized, a stage full of musicians and performers, identities concealed in horrid, goulish, zombie like dress, simply blew me away. I found the front man’s attitude and explicit commentary between songs regarding his stand against corporate record labels to be immensely satisfying, especially when introducing the album’s platinum status to his cheering audience. I played this album over and over again, day after day, and at high volume levels. Normally a “riff” rather than a “lyric” man, the line “I fight for the ones who can’t fight” in the song “Pulse of the Maggots” resonated with particular clarity and meaning during this period. Further, I could relate the sheer, unrelenting pain in the singer’s repeated scream “SHE ISN’T REAL, I CAN’T MAKE HER REAL” in the song “Vermillion” to indignation borne by a judicial system not capable of administering justice for all. Ironically, Mortgage Bank WF, N.A., the division strategically placed in the front and center of the battle by Mortgage Bank WF legal counsel, is headquartered in none-other than Des Moines, Iowa, the same location the band Slipknot calls home! I declare my gratitude to the people of Des Moines, Iowa, to the band Slipknot, and to the city’s burgeoning creative class!
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It's a 'towering' piece if it's the one I think it is. If it's not that piece, I'm probably talking rubbish again! lol.
Do you know the Widor piece too? I'm no expert - it's a Fugue of his I think.
Oh it’s towering all right Orchidee - suicide rates would be cut in half if this sort of work (Bach’s) would possess and inspire people’s souls; if just only for a few minutes and then onto another great work of art followed by another and another...
Thanks Gary. Pity things would have the opposite effect if I went from one song to another to another.... would drive people mad - tortuous! lol. Aww, why they say they can't tell if it's me singing or two cats fighting? They're horrible to me! lol.
Wow, how to answer that? I'm gobsmacked that of all people with tasty skills such as yourself your pen has waned and left you to the floor. Get back up now or I'll be paying you a visit with a new pen !!
And I love pens Kevin (and your favorable review) but am so stubborn with routine that I told my wife “No” when she asked if she could purchase a nice pen for my birthday. “I’ve already got this one”, (my prized S.T. DuPont of which, I fear, I will have to answer to someday regarding the sin of ‘attachments’) “and refills too!”
The power of J.S.Bach can be so overpowering at times.
Amen Goldfinch - and what joy it is that we can go, right now, within this very minute, and type the title of this work into our browser, and within seconds, listen to the very piece that inspired this poet and countless others I’m sure!
So true Gary, so true.
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