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Cliff is a Blue Angel

from Threnody for a Forgotten Plague by Stephen Mead

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Love song 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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Cliff Is a Blue Angel

With a Prussian blue crystal heart.
It is clear as the kindness
In my lover's seal gaze.
Back streets, alleys,
Roll from Cliff's robes:
Time's winding sheet
Unfurled 'til he's nude.

Soldier, your bones of armor
Are whitest radiance, the roman
Shoulders shucking off duties,
War's tours, a grief-----

Now Cliff is so pure,
The pool of each eye,
A portal for an earth,
For an ocean...

Two tears, tattooed,
Are high by his left cheek,
The ear, gold-hooped...

Cliff, is it Dover washing white
Froth over indigo there where you are?

Oh Holocaust Nosferatu, half gypsy
James Dean, half shaved Genet,
You are a saint out of prison now
& what of our own tears?

Mortal is flesh, as is sorrow
Only a season...

Cliff, wave back to us
& spit your tobacco-----

Blue birds sail forth with good news.

credits

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


Sonar Ping: DigiFishMusic (Cliff is a Blue Angel)

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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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