Better just to take it and sever the ties as quickly as possible and then they don't have any responsibility towards you and can say things to you like: "We always know where you've been because we get orders for your records from that part of the world", which is entirely the wrong way around. So you follow what I'm saying?"
Have I proved myself to be one already or is this body used to dealing with imbeciles?
"As opposed to them begging you to go a tour to sell the record in which they've got a vested interest or might even say, own totally"
Forty One – Twenty One
"I will lift up mine eye
unto the gunsights
& aim for the Lord.
I will lift up mine eye
unto the gunsights
& squeeze the trigger
once more.
I will lift up mine eye
unto the gunsights
& even up
the score."
There was another poet Milton, but he lived sometime ago and bears no relevance to our poet Milton. Ted, who at the moment, is the Milton. One published work, " He also serves who only incubates" is an array of poems fit for madmen. Poems that are to words what his sax is to music.
Fairy Tale Poem For Crossed Fingers
"Once more unto
Once upon a Time
If we keep our fingers crossed
That is what we will surely find."
Are you still doing your poetry as a separate part? – I naively enquire.
"Not really as a separate part, it's an integral part. That is that lyrics are prose and vice-versa, usually, but last week in Montreal we arrived a day early to play and we stumbled on a poetry festival. We sorta jumped in there and did an, all around, 20 minutes sequence without music, and that was probably the most exciting thing that happened to me on the trip. There's not really much opportunity to do it but I like doing it very much. Recitations, the Milton's poetical works, "Intimations of Verbal Karate" and so forth. "