Friday, January 18, 2013

Chant: purpose


This is a gypsy waltz
This is a dusty land
This is a sharp drop
This is a place to dance
This is where the women dress in red
This is where the clear drink flows without fear
This is where the bass and the red lips and the clapping hands go

This is which door to open
This is which window to keep shut
This is the language to know
This is the tongue to dodge

This is the living place
This is the dancing place
This is the rejoicing place
This is the creative place
This is the living place

This is the watching road
This is the walking road

This is the road that you do not walk on while teetering
This is the pair of heels you swing in
This is the pair of heels you slave in
This is the pair of sensible shoes you show to no one

This is the sea place
This is the desert place
This is the fish place
This is the lime place
This is the sunflower place
This is the wandering place
This is the do not wander that way place
This is the map place
This is the guitara flamenco place
This is that spinning place

This is the pining place
This is the cardamom and spice place
This is the puula place
This is the sisu place
This is the hyvva place
This is the perkele place
This is the piru place

This is the desert place
This is the lost place
This is the don’t get lost place
This is the skeida place

This is the rootless place
This is the end place
This is the don’t drink the water place
This is the post apocalyptic outhouse place

This is the nothing to fear place
This is the hide under your bed during earthquakes place
This is the wear your goggles and mask during dust storms place
This is the listen to your mother place

This is the waltz place
This is the humming place
This is the Django Reinhardt place

This is the acid place
This is the waste place
This is the wasteland place
This is the wash behind your ears place

This is the raven’s place
This is the chai place
This is the desert place
This is the hopping place
This is the drumming place
This is the cook your meat to 145 place
This is the lock your doors place
This is the prepared place
This is the necessary place

This is the rejoicing place
This is the breathing place
This is the control place
This is the cactus place
This is the thundering place
This is the practical place
This is the focused place
This is the beautiful place
This is the Thomas Stearns Elliot place
This is the learning place
This is the surviving place
This is the planet’s place
This is the woman’s place 
This is the mother’s place
This is the tribe’s place
This is the mainstream subculture place
This is the bonding place
This is the loving place
This is the necessary place
This is the only place

This is the place we dig our shelters
This is the place we don’t sleep on
This is the place we rest our minds
This is the place we dance and sing
This is the place we rejoice in 
This is the place we exist in
This is the place we hang on to
This is the place we pushed into
This is the place we play accordion 
This is the place we survive
This is the only place
This is the only place left
This place is ours

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