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i do not know music theory
but someone (a young
daughter of the man
i once knew) told
me the first
note sets
the key

how i think too much about god & purpose: eschatological theory
it is a wasted exercise like jogging or fencing or maybe that
is too cruel or glib a statement like making fun of L Ron
Hubbard or buggy whip manufacturers or those folks
who believe in positive thinking “i deserve to
be rich & beautiful & loved as if i were
Jesus or Mary or the soldier who
thru no fault of his own
thrust a spear into
Jesus’ side”

i am not a Christian but the story is beautiful
& we do appreciate rich & beautiful things
Freud told beautiful compelling stories
he won a literature award for them
& became world famous with
his theory but again i am
not a Freudian though
i do like sex even if
it’s a fictional
sort of sex

the key the daughter
told me is silence
an inhalation or
an exhalation
flesh on
flesh &
then

i am close to something very plain
a sort of love that releases love’s fictions
that follows between the yes & the no & what
the red flows into the green the black into the white
some beautiful story that begins with nothing set in stone
two hands cupped a nothing set in the soft stone of two palms
& if i listen very closely to what slides away when it reaches out
or do you know what—i said it best saying i do not know music theory
& that the story is beautiful & i hope your life is more positive than not as
i am very near something cupped in the hands of someone & i am letting go

© 2010 Richard Lance Williams August 23 nothing set in stone: tonality & texture

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