Brightblack Morning Light - Oppressions Each [mp3]
I wake up each morning aching from sleep, arms numb from the overwhelming weight of my heart, hips bruised badly blunted by feather-top pillow mattresses that are all the rage these days in vacation homes up and down the California coast line, brain buzzing but tea will save the day. I take a seat on the living room floor, legs crossed at an arbitrary angle, agility restored at the onset of some Yogic logic. I close my eyes and count to ten, then think think think of anything that doesn’t rhyme with ten. I fail, hen ben wren pen lend fend bend send when…
It is times like this that I wish I had never learned poetry, pitiless is my brain to the charming sound of words that sound alike, redundancy of letters realism is the only measure I have of the value of words these days, these days you wonder if I’m going to make it in my language without a reason except noise, seemingly simplistic similies complexified by similarly voweled words. It is times like this that I turn to my mantra.
“We don’t need oppression.”
“Release oppression.”
“Say hi oppression.”
“Nowhere to run oppression.”
“Nobody wants oppression.”
I repeat these lines to my inner rhymesayer until it is drowned in the oppression of repetitious rhythm. Absent these thoughts, I can concentrate on my meditative meanderings, I can clearly conceive of her lips lush lost in her mouth I can taste her tongue the brightwhite morning light of her shining enamel nips a bit on the tip tip tip I trace her jaw line with my kiss in search of the nape of her neck I bite and she peeps and I see the beginning of the day has begun again.
Brightblack Morning Light are a rhythm and blues band from New Mexico. The featured song is from the album Motion to Rejoin. Purchase the music at Amazon | Insound | eMusic.
