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Tschikovsky's Nina

from Whispers of Arias (II) by Stephen Mead

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Based on Ken Russel's "The Music Lovers", the story of Nina and Tschikovsky was a doomed one despite the inherent humanity of the two people involved.

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Tchaikovsky’s Nina


I had many men, but not the man,
Until him.
What did it mean?
Music sweeping over, the great
Composed redemption, or so I hoped,
Sending a letter, afraid…
He replied, even wrote me an opera,
The muse’s brew stewing us, rare
Tender hearted onions
That answered prayers pickled.
Brother & sister. He said:
Be patient with me.
I lay beside him in our marriage bed
Still waiting beyond what could not
Be shook or understood.
At least then, that’s how it felt.
Later came Mother Menace, madness,
The furies, irreconcilable, splitting
The rift wider, & us cast adrift
On those throes of liquor, laudanum,
With me, ME!, now asylum housed
Like his cholera-pocked Mom
Still a symphonic plague.

In between all that, yes, he still
Had his good moments, inspiring
Contemplation: sparklers in the hands
Of children, a rising fireworks tympani
While I, picturing this, here, confined
To these bars after fighting for grub
With the Others, here I am almost
Equally sedate with this,
This knowledge:
We should have let everything be.

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from Whispers of Arias (II), released December 24, 2012

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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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