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I drank in the stupor

from Evocations: Exotic Settlers by Rusty Kjarvik

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"I drank in the stupor", founded on the original Latin meaning of the word stupor, as, 'to be amazed or stunned,' the piece draws from an experience during the Day of Lady Guadalupe in Mexico, where I observed my future wife from afar as she street performed music in a city square. The overshadowing presence of Lady Guadalupe breathed the immense breath of the goddess of compassion Kuan Yin, through her Chinese zither music, and both protectresses mirrored their gaze through mine, visually and aurally with a searching heart bursting and blooming with the stupefying gift love. As French writer and philosopher Paul Valery said, "Love is being stupid together."

Sound art vocalization-exclamation of "I drank in the stupor" featuring an epic wave of shakuhachi improvisations, published in written form for the 29th issue of Steel Bananas Quarterly, along with three other pieces in the new self-published chapbook, "A Sick Society Amuck" (www.scribd.com/doc/141224329/A-Sick-Society-Amuck)

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I drank in the stupor of cacophonous snow
blind midnight blood horrors
till dawn's resurrected weed drawn beyond -
hoarse, grotesque awe,
forever naming the ingrained hosts of cemetery brooding
under fine wintry lights,
the ancient melancholic seed
planted woodland northeast, Georgia to Maine,
climactic conflicts astir amid native rumors
climbing upward into the dimming roosts' long call
granting palm wishes in the Mexican eyeball drool
on John Lennon street fair-minded
donating beautiful soundless hearts
through world music motion
of our one universal language emotion
and the commonly evolved ground broken through violent social awareness
meant to survive generations
with the traumatic blessing of the great earthly groan
from
MA, virgin, temptress,
my Kuan Yin

March 7, 2011
Remembering Staring at My Love Expressing Alone on the Day of the Virgin of Guadalupe, written in Calgary

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from Evocations: Exotic Settlers, released April 23, 2013

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Rusty Kjarvik Brooklyn, New York

My ancestors are from the lands in and around what is now Norway, Poland, Germany and Greece. They lived above the Arctic Circle, spoke Yiddish, were Romaniote Greek, English settlers during the revolutionary war of America, and from Germany pioneered in 19th century Alberta, Canada where they also took Blackfoot names. They were buried in religious fame; and so I also go by Menachem ben Asser. ... more

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