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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: seven notes holding my mind together
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 02:11:31 -0500 (EST)
seven notes holding my mind together http://www.alansondheim.org/longneckedsazlabel.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/longneckedsaz1.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/longneckedsaz2.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/longneckedsaz.mp3 seven notes that didn't head towards consonance oh yes they tried, they yearned, but i refused it was this that held my mind together refusing the consonance, keeping them scurrying it was in that fashion that they never left or arrived they marched to and fro, they murmured, they pleaded it was in my fashion to hold keep them in abeyance after all nothing was ever promised, nothing at all i was honored tonight by the saz of ahmet tekeli he gave me permission to play endlessly on and on without the gift of reciprocity, without beginning without end, somewhere one had to stop, someplace one had to desist now these seven notes have saved my life and nothing will ever resolve again the scissors remain open, the wound never heals ecstasy never leaves the place, alive or dead seven notes that didn't head anywhere seven notes without the gift of ending or beginning seven notes that didn't head anywhere at all