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Ponderosa

 

Ponderosa

 

Mental illness is, to borrow from James Brown, “Getting to be a drag! A man can’t do nothing no more.” He wasn’t talking about mental illness of course. He was too busy being “the hardest working man in show business.” He was in fact talking about sexual relations, but that discussion has gown tedious, odious, noxious & generally words ending in ious, somewhat like IOUs though that’s more likely to confuse. Obstruse then this journey into Mahler’s 4th Symphony, 3rd Movement. Apparently, Gustave had a composing studio at the end of his garden, acres from the domestic doings & tooings. He needed silence to get his groove on. His was not the concrete jungle groove of James Brown, even if I’m borrowing here from Bob Marley. “Anyway,” rejoindered Socrates, “…there’s more than one way to skin a cat!” My year 7s were shocked. Does this guy really have a working with children check? Sounds a bit loose to me! Mahler & Brown & for that matter, Marley had different agendas & 3 heads are better than one. Which is why I listen to each of them simultaneously. Well, not really, the words overtook me. But that would be something wouldn’t it? Noise in other words. Or perhaps Ornette Coleman’s Free Jazz? What is all of this aid of? Asks the rationalist. & Immanuel Kant rejoinders “what is all your rationality in aid of?!” Or in his wink to his cat “It’s getting to be a drag! A man can’t do nothing no more.”

 

 

Published & Copyright Malachi Doyle 2024.

 

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