Standing sentry beside the unblemished avenues of the upper-class fortresses which line
Beverly Hills and Bel-Air and all the other places where winners live and those who
Have not
Discovered the magic formula
May not reside,
The lilacs and myrtles and jacarandi
Burst forth
Insistently. Proudly. Defiantly.
Like hundreds of gravity-defying breasts, announcing to the world that
They shall live before they die.
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension…is itself a frightful despotism [serving] always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself…
Writer, poet, artist, improviser, lyricist, former television personality, and generally decent person.
Aficionados of the weird and wonderful, rejoice! Pianist-arranger Cory Smythe’s “Accelerate Every Voice,” gives new meaning to term “original music.” The recording offers strange and alluring sounds emanating from electronic keyboards and loopers, but the main sonic source is a quintet of human voices orchestrated into a collage of aural splendor that’s hard to describe...
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