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The playlist for Sunday 12 Oct 14 8pm to 9pm Pacific Edition of The Justice Department: Musique sans Frontieres
~~ "The Edge of a Crater and the Crater is on Fire" ~~
1 - Bobby Womack -- "Across 110th Street"
2 - Rose Batiste -- "Nobody Loves Me Like My Baby"
3 - Brenda Holloway -- "Starting The Hurt All Over Again"
4 - Brook Benton -- "My True Confession"
5 - Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell -- "Your Precious Love"
6 - Linda Jones -- "I'll Be Sweeter Tomorrow"
7 - The Four Tops -- "Still Water Love"
8 - Marvelettes -- "Destination Anywhere"
9 - The Velvelettes -- "He Was Really Saying Something"
10 - Bill Withers - "Just The Two Of Us"
Station Break
11 - The Stanley Brothers -- "Pass Me Not O' Gentle Savior."
12 - Big Mama Thornton -- "Wade In The Water"
13 - Little Axe -- "Down To The Valley"
14 - Bobby McFerrin -- "Psalm 23"
15 - Chris Thomas King -- "Revelations"
16 - Gram Parsons, Emmylou Harris & Linda Ronstadt -- "In My Hour of Darkness"
17 - Daniel Lanois -- "Where Will I Be"
There are trees and they are on fire. There are hummingbirds and they are on fire. There are graves and they are on fire and the things coming out of the graves are on fire. The house you grew up in is on fire. There is a gigantic trebuchet on fire on the edge of a crater and the crater is on fire. There is a complex system of tunnels deep underneath the surface with only one entrance and one exit and the entire system is filled with fire. There is a wooden cage we’re trapped in, too large to see, and it is on fire. There are jaguars on fire. Wolves. Spiders. Wolf-spiders on fire. If there were people. If our fathers were alive. If we had a daughter. Fire to the edges. Fire in the river beds. Fire between the mattresses of the bed you were born in. Fire in your mother’s belly. There is a little boy wearing a fire shirt holding a baby lamb. There is a little girl in a fire skirt asking if she can ride the baby lamb like a horse. There is you on top of me with thighs of fire while a hot red fog hovers in your hair. There is me on top of you wearing a fire shirt and then pulling the fire shirt over my head and tossing it like a fireball through the fog at a new kind of dinosaur. There are meteorites disintegrating in the atmosphere just a few thousand feet above us and tiny fireballs are falling down around us, pooling around us, forming a kind of fire lake which then forms a kind of fire cloud. There is this feeling I get when I am with you. There is our future house burning like a star on the hill. There is our dark flickering shadow. There is my hand on fire in your hand on fire, my body on fire above your body on fire, our tongues made of ash. We are rocks on a distant and uninhabitable planet. We have our whole life ahead of us.
-- Zachary Schomburg
"The Fire Cycle"
The playlist for Sunday 31 Aug 14 8pm to 9pm Pacific Edition of The Justice Department: Musique sans Frontieres
~~ "Nearly Ruined With Good Employ" ~~
1 - Phil Ochs -- "When I'm Gone"
2 - Pete Seeger -- "From Way Up Here"
3 - Crooked Still -- "Wind and Rain"
4 - Abigail Washburn -- "Backstep Cindy and Purple Bamboo"
5 - Old And In The Way -- "Hobo Song"
6 - Dan Bern -- "Black Tornado"
7 - Joni Mitchell -- "All I Want"
8 - Chris Whitley -- "To Joy"
Station Break
9 - Buena Vista Social Club -- "Dos Gardenias"
10 - Ibrahim Ferrer -- "Buenos Hermanos"
11 - Omara Portuondo -- "Canto lo Sentimental"
12 - Victor Jara -- "Plegaria a un Labrador"
13 - Paco Ibanez -- "Los Versos Mas Tristres"
14 - Bebel Gilberto -- "Simplesmente"
15 - La Caina -- "Bailando Va"
16 - Yatu -- "La Luna""
I’m thinking it’s time to go back
to the peach farm or rather
the peach farm seems to be wanting me back
even though the work of picking, sorting,
the sticky perils and sudden swarms are done.
Okay, full disclosure, I’ve never
been on a peach farm, just glimpsed
from a car squat trees I assumed
were peach and knew a couple in school
who went off one summer, so they said,
to work on a peach farm. She was pregnant,
he didn’t have much intention, canvases
of crushed lightbulbs and screws in paste.
He’d gotten fired from the lunch counter
for putting too much meat
on the sandwiches of his friends
then ended up in Macy’s in New York
selling caviar and she went home
I think to Scranton, two more versions
of never hearing from someone again.
I’d like to say the most important fruits
are within but that’s the very sort of bullshit
one goes to the peach farm to avoid,
not just flight from quadratic equations,
waiting for the plumber,
finding out your insurance won’t pay.
Everyone wants out of the spider’s stomach.
Everyone wants to be part of some harvest
and stop coughing to death and cursing
at nothing and waking up nowhere near
an orchard. Look at these baskets,
bashed about, nearly ruined with good employ.
Often, after you’ve spent a day on a ladder,
you dream of angels, the one with the trumpet
and free subscriptions to the New Yorker
or the archer, the oink angel, angel
of ten dollar bills found in the dryer
or the one who welcomes you in work gloves
and says if you’re caught eating a single peach,
even windfall, you’ll be executed.
Then laughs. It’s okay, kiddo,
long as you’re here, you’re one of us.
-- Dean Young
"Peach Farm"
The playlist for Sunday 27 July 14 8pm to 9pm Pacific Edition of The Justice Department: Musique sans Frontieres
~~ "A Displaced Young Woman With Cropped Hair" ~~
1 - Muddy Waters and Tao of Groove -- "Honeybee Blues"
2 - Paul Murphy -- "Soul Call"
3 - Amy Winehouse -- "Valerie"
4 - Dusty Springfield -- "Spooky"
5 - Aitanna77 -- "This Car is Going Nowhere"
6 - Damien Rice -- "The Blower's Daughter"
7 - Alcoholic Faith Mission -- "Nut In Your Eye"
Station Break
8 - Sufjan Stevens -- "Casimir Pulaski Day"
9 - Iron And Wine -- "Upward Over The Mountain"
10 - Mogwai -- "Take Me Somewhere Nice"
11 - Death Cab For Cutie -- "I Will Possess Your Heart"
12 - Esbjorn Svensson Trio -- "The Well Wisher"
I only have a moment so let me tell you the shortest story,
about arriving at a long loved place, the house of friends in Maine,
their lawn of wildflowers, their grandfather clock and candid
portraits, their gabled attic rooms, and woodstove in the kitchen,
all accessories of the genuine summer years before, when I was
their son’s girlfriend and tied an apron behind my neck, beneath
my braids, and took from their garden the harvest for a dinner
I would make alone and serve at their big table with the gladness
of the found, and loved. The eggplant shone like polished wood,
the tomatoes smelled like their furred collars, the dozen zucchini
lined up on the counter like placid troops with the onions, their
minions, and I even remember the garlic, each clove from its airmail
envelope brought to the cutting board, ready for my instruction.
And in this very slight story, a decade later, I came by myself,
having been dropped by the airport cab, and waited for the family
to arrive home from work. I walked into the lawn, waist-high
in the swaying, purple lupines, the subject of June’s afternoon light
as I had never been addressed — a displaced young woman with
cropped hair, no place to which I wished to return, and no one
to gather me in his arms. That day the lupines received me,
and I was in love with them, because they were all I had left,
and in that same manner I have loved much of the world since then,
and who is to say there is more of a reason, or more to love?
-- Jessica Greenbaum
For a Traveler
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(12-String Ovation Balladeer Astoria, Oregon / copyright Justice Putnam)
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(Field of Tournesol Normandy, France / copyright Justice Putnam
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Voices and Soul appears on Black Kos Tuesday's Chile; poetry chosen and critiqued by Black Kos Poetry Editor, Justice Putnam.
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(Cut Stones and Arch St Ceneri, France / copyright Justice Putnam)
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(Chateau de Valicourt Montmorancy, France / copyright Justice Putnam)
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Question: Who is your audience? What are you here for?
Answer: Tribal Alliances, Heart-felt Convictions, Passionate Reason, Random Abandon, Sustainable Civility and a kiss; to comfort the sad and the mad Ones; the Ones roaming the International section of the American Supermarket at night; or roaming the neglected streets looking for an angry malaprop to sink their teeth into; the Ones who seek without seeking and learn as much as they teach; the Ones who embrace and kiss and embrace again; the Ones who sing the song of the city and the ballads of the forest; the Ones who chant the rhythm of the sea and hum the melody of the desert; the Ones who sing the prayer of Her name and Her name is the World. Yes, those are the Ones. -- JP
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(Man, Girl and Broken Window Klamath Falls, Oregon / copyright Justice Putnam)
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So that explains it... !
Sunlight and Water Pitcher Muir Beach / copyright Justice Putnam
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... Or does it?
(Holy Bible and 3 in 1 Oil Berkeley, California / copyright Justice Putnam)
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I took another small sip of water as the next questioner rose, this time by the stacks of French novels. She was cute; red hair, tall, maybe 5'9" or 5'10", well proportioned. Had to be another doctoral student in Comparative Literature at Cal; so even at 24 or 25, was too young for my wandering eye.
"You stated," she stated determinedly, "and I quote; 'Comedy, Poetry and Fiction are only effective and only become Art if there is a Truth behind the humor, the verse and the lie.'"
"Yes," I uttered to fill the small silence.
"In your writing; in your humor, verse and lies, are you telling a Truth about yourself?" she asked, "or are you telling a Truth about the Culture and Society as a whole?"
"Yes," I answered.
--Justice Putnam
"Conversations With The Audience"
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(Motown NN14 Detroit, Michigan / copyright Justice Putnam)
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(Chair, Floor and Electric Cord Berkeley, California / copyright Justice Putnam)
"The most unostentatious, the most inexpensive, the most ridiculous chair, if a chair can be ridiculous, which could be devised. Brassai chose precisely this insignificant chair and, snapping it where he found it, unearthed what there was in it of dignity and veracity. THIS IS A CHAIR."
-- Henry Miller
"The Eye of Paris"
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(Rail Road Crossing Sonoma, California / copyright Justice Putnam)
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(Farm Road Olema, California / copyright Justice Putnam)
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"Many heroes lived before Agamemnon, but they are all unmourned, and consigned to oblivion, because they had no bard to sing their praises."
-- Horace
"Still the race of hero spirits pass the lamp from hand to hand."
-- Charles Kingsley
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(Lamp and Post Berkeley, California / copyright Justice Putnam)
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(House Ruins of Poet St Pol Roux Brittany, France / copyright Justice Putnam)
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Josephine
words and music by
Justice Putnam
Josephine
Josephine
I’m pleading
With Josephine
(m/8) Taking the steps
Down to the sea
Somewhere along
The coast of Normandy
Where the white
Fossil sands
Churned turbulently
Where men rushed
Into battle
And died violently
Whose last
Dying breath
Was to plead with
Josephine
Josephine
I’m pleading
With Josephine
(m/8) Could be
The grasslands
Of the Sioux
No matter
Which side
They were on
They were all
Thinking of you
Could be in
In the South Pacific
Or the Persian Gulf
An Indonesian jungle
Or an Arctic hut
Could be in a
Manhattan penthouse
Or a cold water den
(coda) We’ll all grasp
At that last
Bit of hope
In the end with
Josephine
Josephine
I’m pleading
With Josephine
(tacet) Josephine
Take me
Home
© 2005 Justice Putnam
Fleur du Sel Musique
and Mechanisches-Strophe Verlagswesen
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Rest in Peace Aaron Schwartz
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(Morning Fog And Surf, Muir Beach, California / copyright Justice Putnam)
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