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Mournful meditative piece on collecting a loved one after the Lockerbie plane crash

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Victim #29


They brought his body on a forklift
Because there were so many crates,
So many names to keep track of
As if this was a factory which,
I see now, maybe it is.

Last night I had that dream again:
A silver bird in the night sky, serene
Over the Atlantic. Strange, trying to
Wake, but I knew what was coming,
How the immense belly, in close up,
Would open & then, as though filmed
From a distance, seem so small,
Almost a dot though
Something else happened: a suspended
Spider, say, laying eggs
Except this was a plane & the confetti
Dropped
Were lives before the explosion which,
Last Christmas, was the only actual thing.

It still is, this year too, though I try
To make an effort every day, those blessed
Moments I’m not pissed at the government,
The air lines, who were warned, who should
Have looked, knowing the make, a SONY
Radio which encased the bomb…

No use blaming just the terrorists, who believe
They are at war, really feel it as so, with the innocents
They take simply soldiers unassigned yet
Dying because war is about loss.

Yours has been the hardest, yours &
The others I think of these nights, breathing the fire,
The stars, cold flares I must see with your eyes,
Must see & keep with me so as to hold all you loved
& you did love life

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from Choral Soliloquies (II), released May 21, 2017
from FreeSound.org, contributors I.D. from site

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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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