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And Dream of Seas

from Threnody for a Forgotten Plague by Stephen Mead

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From "Threnody for a Forgotten Plague", work-in-progress dealing with the early days of the AIDS pandemic, specifically the fracturing of voices which literally and emotionally occurs during any such outbreak throughout time: the medical, political bureaucracy vs. the voices of humans fighting for their health and well being.

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And Dream of Seas
"I would rather drown, remembering——" H.D.


If the food stayed down
(& it did)

If the hands found each other
& not blindly
or just through letters,
that piercing paper touch
(& they did)

If we were soluble, the flesh
transparent & could merge
in a flow where nobody
drowned
or at least not alone
(& we might have)

If your voice, face was suddenly
inside mine & sky-lit eyes
looked out brighter,
an ocean in the all over dark
(& we almost)

If I were not sad, could feel
joy even in your leaving
without angry idols, fearful
obsession or the fact
fact of your sickness
(& I am)

or death
(am not)

then the last vast wave
would not want oblivion
(& we cannot)

only a sort of truth nearly
clear
(& we don't)

in this surge,
the real dream

which does not stop

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from Threnody for a Forgotten Plague, released December 24, 2014
In addition to instruments and sounds recorded around the house, and samples from MusicCreator5, the following sites also provided royalty free sounds and music:
SoundDogs.com, SoundBible.com, MP3Skull.com, InternetArchive.org (Various Unidentified Choral Chants before "tweaking"*), and FreeSound.org
*Ofert.Deprofundis, Sanctus Mass Viii, Kyrie-MassXviii

Particular FreeSound users (Cormi, Kerri, Setuniman, Suburban-Grilla, Pryght-One, ERH) provided


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Stephen Mead Albany, New York

A resident of NY, Stephen Mead is a published outsider artist, writer, maker of short-collage films and sound-collage downloads. If you are at all interested please place his name in any search engine in conjunction with any of the above-mentioned genres for links to his multimedia work and merchandise. To order CDs via VISA or PayPal please visit stephenmeadmusic.weebly.com ... more

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