ALHUMDULELLAH (FROM "LADY T")

Life is pristinus and deep
A bordello and a shallow ovation
A phantasm, set somewhere between rhythm and rhyme
Tubular bells and the bottom line is
Reality is a clap of hands or a pat on the back, so few and far between
I am a saxaphone solo, seductive and pure, resonant and silent, nebulous and clear, tabooed and promiscious, "wild and peaceful"I am upper suburbia and I am Venice harlem
I am one million and one contradictions to my complacent life.
Lady Tee - imperfect happy me, loved and hated and I can't please everyone
Aah but I try.
I am the answer to a question asked - where are you going?
I am the answer to a question asked - where have you been?
To and from Bali Hai and New Orleans - all in the same overture.
Romantically I am the warrior and the pacifist, the woman and the child, a calm and angry soul
And I can hang tough, even when things are moving fast.
And you, you are a pure and simple breed, out of the mouths of babies
Your simplicity will quench the dryest soul.
Sweet chariot of humanity, you will never die.
Sweet children of Yahweh, you have made my burlapped world blue velvet.
You and I are no more or less than each other - small fragments of the master's imagination, all so important
For it takes a million fragments to build one dream come true.
Eli - you have placed me here in Sodom
I have visited Gomorrah.
I have seen the blood of the prophets on unlean hands.
Grant that I may save at least one soul, even if not mine
Alas! Alas! The great city, her destruction has come about.
I have felt the pains of striving to be free, no irons or screws to crush my thumbs - 'tis the ignorant thoughts of man that have bonded me.
I have been persecuted and labeled just like you
Aah but you label Campbell's soup cans...not people!

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