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Robert Koji Onodera

  • PLACE AND TIME
  • DAD'S MUSIC
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Poem tacked to Dad's Bulletin Board, April 2018

Verdict With Guitar

 

This rising isn't air

but cups and saucers

formed by the roundness

of their own evidence

 

In the same sense the trees

though not yet guitars

are testimony of their own music, 

bending slightly 

 

There are charts 

to explain all this, 

and circuits, disregarded

by the weight of their own separateness

 

Still, no agency can prevail, no dessert

served. Nothing implied

except circumstances

already broken

 

And so these used ideas 

here worn like clothes 

will be compensated, without apology, 

by the softest chords of their instrument

-Jim Jarmusch

Tuesday 05.01.18
Posted by Lisa Onodera
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