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Evening Thoughts (part one)

from The Enlightened by Johan Troch

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Atmospherics / produced by Johan Troch.
Flugelhorn played by Steve Dillard.
An excerpt from 'Leaves Of Grass' (1855) written by
Walt Whitman, read by Tom O'Bedlam.

lyrics

A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands;
How could I answer the child? . . . . I do not know what it is any more than he.

I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven.

Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord,
A scented gift and remembrancer designedly dropped,
Bearing the owner's name someway in the corners, that we may see and remark,
and say Whose?

Or I guess the grass is itself a child . . . . the produced babe of the vegetation.

Or I guess it is a uniform hieroglyphic,
And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones,
Growing among black folks as among white,
Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff, I give them the same, I receive them the
same.

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from The Enlightened, released January 18, 2015
Steve Dillard (flugelhorn)
Tom O'Bedlam (recited the poem)
© 2014 / 2015 Adagio Productions

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