WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.460 align:middle line:90% 00:00:02.460 --> 00:00:05.760 align:middle line:84% That was "Day After Day of The Dead." 00:00:05.760 --> 00:00:07.080 align:middle line:90% This is "Anabatic Jukebox." 00:00:07.080 --> 00:00:17.928 align:middle line:90% 00:00:17.928 --> 00:00:20.916 align:middle line:90% [PIANO MUSIC] 00:00:20.916 --> 00:00:32.390 align:middle line:90% 00:00:32.390 --> 00:00:38.330 align:middle line:84% Skin, bone, meat, blood suspect, we were again on our way 00:00:38.330 --> 00:00:40.550 align:middle line:90% somewhere else. 00:00:40.550 --> 00:00:43.880 align:middle line:84% Body suspect, gone what soul was, 00:00:43.880 --> 00:00:47.660 align:middle line:84% Ohlone games dropping painted sticks lay behind us. 00:00:47.660 --> 00:00:53.060 align:middle line:90% Lone coast receded, we moved on. 00:00:53.060 --> 00:00:59.390 align:middle line:84% Sentient wind we'd be one with again, lost what soul once was. 00:00:59.390 --> 00:01:03.620 align:middle line:84% Lone coast, honed edge we hurt our feet on. 00:01:03.620 --> 00:01:06.125 align:middle line:84% Again, we were beginning to be gone. 00:01:06.125 --> 00:01:09.128 align:middle line:90% [PIANO MUSIC] 00:01:09.128 --> 00:01:10.480 align:middle line:90% 00:01:10.480 --> 00:01:14.300 align:middle line:84% As though there'd long since been only one sun, blank sun. 00:01:14.300 --> 00:01:18.530 align:middle line:90% The one sun sun's eventual end. 00:01:18.530 --> 00:01:23.930 align:middle line:84% Blank blacked in thick indelible ink, bird beak stylus, 00:01:23.930 --> 00:01:26.110 align:middle line:90% again we'd soon be gone. 00:01:26.110 --> 00:01:28.930 align:middle line:90% [PIANO MUSIC] 00:01:28.930 --> 00:01:32.230 align:middle line:90% 00:01:32.230 --> 00:01:35.530 align:middle line:84% For now it was only a window I stood at, 00:01:35.530 --> 00:01:38.980 align:middle line:84% a boat-bodied harp on the box as I looked out. 00:01:38.980 --> 00:01:42.520 align:middle line:84% Mamane looked over my shoulder, 'Reverend King' 00:01:42.520 --> 00:01:43.930 align:middle line:90% the next cut came up. 00:01:43.930 --> 00:01:47.970 align:middle line:90% 00:01:47.970 --> 00:01:50.970 align:middle line:84% Laughter broke out, we'd all been weeping. 00:01:50.970 --> 00:01:54.780 align:middle line:84% Sob held at bay by giggle, we burst out laughing, 00:01:54.780 --> 00:01:56.910 align:middle line:90% happy to hear time turn back. 00:01:56.910 --> 00:02:00.140 align:middle line:90% [PIANO MUSIC] 00:02:00.140 --> 00:02:03.830 align:middle line:84% Trane's bass reed made us laugh, keep crying. 00:02:03.830 --> 00:02:08.389 align:middle line:84% Dolphy's clarinet's high carouse. 00:02:08.389 --> 00:02:13.010 align:middle line:84% Ribcage theater, tease, tickle, long fingers 00:02:13.010 --> 00:02:16.430 align:middle line:84% working what was down deeper, laugh 00:02:16.430 --> 00:02:19.340 align:middle line:90% though we did although we wept. 00:02:19.340 --> 00:02:21.260 align:middle line:84% We slapped hands and were laughing, 00:02:21.260 --> 00:02:23.420 align:middle line:84% happy to be young, again, glad not 00:02:23.420 --> 00:02:25.265 align:middle line:90% knowing better, knew better. 00:02:25.265 --> 00:02:27.980 align:middle line:90% [PIANO MUSIC] 00:02:27.980 --> 00:02:38.830 align:middle line:90% 00:02:38.830 --> 00:02:41.290 align:middle line:84% Not one death but many we'd heard. 00:02:41.290 --> 00:02:44.740 align:middle line:90% And a breath now said the same. 00:02:44.740 --> 00:02:50.980 align:middle line:84% The other box, the box we were stuck in sound our one release. 00:02:50.980 --> 00:02:54.460 align:middle line:84% Bent pitch gave rise, we insisted, 00:02:54.460 --> 00:03:00.040 align:middle line:84% to what words gave reason to be, each the eventual ghost 00:03:00.040 --> 00:03:01.390 align:middle line:90% we sometimes were. 00:03:01.390 --> 00:03:03.550 align:middle line:84% Each that all would end up there. 00:03:03.550 --> 00:03:06.400 align:middle line:90% 00:03:06.400 --> 00:03:10.300 align:middle line:84% An announcement, notes posted as we made our way out. 00:03:10.300 --> 00:03:14.230 align:middle line:84% One felt a friend's gaze cross one's right shoulder, what 00:03:14.230 --> 00:03:17.626 align:middle line:84% one looked at also looked at from in back. 00:03:17.626 --> 00:03:20.542 align:middle line:90% [PIANO MUSIC] 00:03:20.542 --> 00:03:21.520 align:middle line:90% 00:03:21.520 --> 00:03:24.770 align:middle line:84% Husk it was one heard, it's unsteadiness. 00:03:24.770 --> 00:03:28.850 align:middle line:84% Reed's unwieldiness the boon it now was, captious, 00:03:28.850 --> 00:03:31.370 align:middle line:90% we heard it crack. 00:03:31.370 --> 00:03:35.480 align:middle line:84% Thus the birdboy's dreamt kin came to include us, 00:03:35.480 --> 00:03:38.480 align:middle line:84% cracked husks' fissures whispering, 00:03:38.480 --> 00:03:40.640 align:middle line:90% droll whistle we fell back from. 00:03:40.640 --> 00:03:45.300 align:middle line:90% 00:03:45.300 --> 00:03:49.320 align:middle line:84% A Sahelian furtherance it was we heard, Salif Keita, 00:03:49.320 --> 00:03:52.410 align:middle line:90% another new cut on the box. 00:03:52.410 --> 00:03:56.340 align:middle line:84% We pursed our lips, bit seeds albeit the box 00:03:56.340 --> 00:04:01.530 align:middle line:84% fell apart, the utopic box it continued to be. 00:04:01.530 --> 00:04:06.240 align:middle line:84% Pursed our lips, bit seeds, gap all that was left, 00:04:06.240 --> 00:04:09.840 align:middle line:90% bit seeds broke our teeth. 00:04:09.840 --> 00:04:14.670 align:middle line:84% Air sucked in through all the emptiness was bodiless, 00:04:14.670 --> 00:04:16.470 align:middle line:90% we all stood as one. 00:04:16.470 --> 00:04:19.392 align:middle line:90% [PIANO MUSIC] 00:04:19.392 --> 00:04:32.070 align:middle line:90% 00:04:32.070 --> 00:04:35.310 align:middle line:84% Sprung polity's pneumatic jukebox it was my friend 00:04:35.310 --> 00:04:38.580 align:middle line:84% and I surmised, each of them the ghost 00:04:38.580 --> 00:04:45.220 align:middle line:84% he or she would eventually be, crevice and protuberance moot. 00:04:45.220 --> 00:04:47.445 align:middle line:90% What would be there? 00:04:47.445 --> 00:04:50.350 align:middle line:90% What would not? 00:04:50.350 --> 00:04:53.170 align:middle line:84% Friend whispering into one's ear, maybe not. 00:04:53.170 --> 00:04:55.405 align:middle line:84% Polity, we stood as though we were. 00:04:55.405 --> 00:04:58.680 align:middle line:90% 00:04:58.680 --> 00:05:03.030 align:middle line:84% The window showed a shoe-box garden, green's wild edge 00:05:03.030 --> 00:05:08.520 align:middle line:84% turned in on green itself, blade rolled into each leaf, blood 00:05:08.520 --> 00:05:10.710 align:middle line:90% each leaf's reglet. 00:05:10.710 --> 00:05:13.626 align:middle line:90% [PIANO MUSIC] 00:05:13.626 --> 00:05:25.800 align:middle line:90% 00:05:25.800 --> 00:05:29.550 align:middle line:84% We stood transfixed by the box's pull upward. 00:05:29.550 --> 00:05:32.970 align:middle line:84% A balloon or a kite it might have been. 00:05:32.970 --> 00:05:36.180 align:middle line:84% A new cut sang the singer's beloved, 00:05:36.180 --> 00:05:40.290 align:middle line:84% recalled her dressed in only a scarf and on the scarf 00:05:40.290 --> 00:05:46.550 align:middle line:84% the smell of neck sweat, late night's agitant perfume. 00:05:46.550 --> 00:05:50.030 align:middle line:84% It was the glass's way of speaking we saw, 00:05:50.030 --> 00:05:53.750 align:middle line:90% windowpane bell jar thick. 00:05:53.750 --> 00:05:58.400 align:middle line:84% Worried would we get there, what we saw be what we'd get, 00:05:58.400 --> 00:06:02.790 align:middle line:90% belled horns bellow again. 00:06:02.790 --> 00:06:07.020 align:middle line:84% 'Reverend King' came back to us, neck sweat notwithstanding, 00:06:07.020 --> 00:06:10.770 align:middle line:90% belled horns' bellow, bray. 00:06:10.770 --> 00:06:12.930 align:middle line:84% We stood reminded we'd been there 00:06:12.930 --> 00:06:17.460 align:middle line:84% before, caught in the walls' rumble, 00:06:17.460 --> 00:06:21.184 align:middle line:90% saltbox dismay we swayed inside. 00:06:21.184 --> 00:06:24.076 align:middle line:90% [PIANO MUSIC] 00:06:24.076 --> 00:06:33.240 align:middle line:90% 00:06:33.240 --> 00:06:39.330 align:middle line:84% Rumble was back, rubble, wall all window, again. 00:06:39.330 --> 00:06:40.860 align:middle line:90% Atlantis. 00:06:40.860 --> 00:06:43.350 align:middle line:90% East St. Louis. 00:06:43.350 --> 00:06:47.520 align:middle line:90% Either, might have been both. 00:06:47.520 --> 00:06:49.710 align:middle line:84% It was a march we were caught up in, 00:06:49.710 --> 00:06:53.730 align:middle line:84% commencement, a march we consoled ourselves. 00:06:53.730 --> 00:06:56.670 align:middle line:84% Marched, albeit we stood unmoving, 00:06:56.670 --> 00:07:00.150 align:middle line:84% stood hoisted high we'd have said. 00:07:00.150 --> 00:07:03.690 align:middle line:84% Jericho, we'd have said, wall falling, 00:07:03.690 --> 00:07:07.110 align:middle line:90% wall all rung, even so. 00:07:07.110 --> 00:07:10.260 align:middle line:84% Hoisted, albeit we stood our legs dangled, 00:07:10.260 --> 00:07:13.860 align:middle line:90% feet came off the floor. 00:07:13.860 --> 00:07:16.890 align:middle line:84% The horns played hurt it sounded like. 00:07:16.890 --> 00:07:19.980 align:middle line:84% We ascended the wall that wasn't there. 00:07:19.980 --> 00:07:21.945 align:middle line:90% Where were we? 00:07:21.945 --> 00:07:24.210 align:middle line:90% We were gone so soon. 00:07:24.210 --> 00:07:26.040 align:middle line:90% We demanded they tell us. 00:07:26.040 --> 00:07:29.340 align:middle line:84% See-thru brink an abeyance, my friend and I 00:07:29.340 --> 00:07:32.640 align:middle line:90% and the we I what-said. 00:07:32.640 --> 00:07:34.890 align:middle line:84% We were spawn of what tore loose. 00:07:34.890 --> 00:07:36.090 align:middle line:90% Our legs dangled. 00:07:36.090 --> 00:07:39.420 align:middle line:90% Mud clumps fell from our feet. 00:07:39.420 --> 00:07:41.850 align:middle line:84% A call climbed our throats as though it were we 00:07:41.850 --> 00:07:44.820 align:middle line:84% the horns enlisted, move what was otherwise 00:07:44.820 --> 00:07:48.922 align:middle line:84% wall stuff, adobe, colloquy, straw. 00:07:48.922 --> 00:07:51.754 align:middle line:90% [PIANO MUSIC] 00:07:51.754 --> 00:07:56.010 align:middle line:90% 00:07:56.010 --> 00:07:59.820 align:middle line:84% Abide my friend, I heard myself say. 00:07:59.820 --> 00:08:07.500 align:middle line:84% The box's mouthpiece it seemed, wood lips, box head, box body. 00:08:07.500 --> 00:08:11.830 align:middle line:90% Abide, I said, even so. 00:08:11.830 --> 00:08:15.820 align:middle line:84% It wasn't puff, however much it seems so. 00:08:15.820 --> 00:08:20.050 align:middle line:84% The friend who stood at my back and to my right. 00:08:20.050 --> 00:08:29.660 align:middle line:84% Box head, wood lips, box body, shadow box, cardboard insides. 00:08:29.660 --> 00:08:33.470 align:middle line:84% Abide, I said, more to myself it might have been. 00:08:33.470 --> 00:08:40.630 align:middle line:84% Wood lips, box body, box tongue, late aspect, 00:08:40.630 --> 00:08:48.301 align:middle line:84% late luxurious music, endless till it ended, we found out. 00:08:48.301 --> 00:08:51.283 align:middle line:90% [PIANO MUSIC] 00:08:51.283 --> 00:08:58.740 align:middle line:90% 00:08:58.740 --> 00:09:04.860 align:middle line:84% Stood happy sad at the sonic window, om mani padme hum. 00:09:04.860 --> 00:09:11.660 align:middle line:84% The glass we looked in through bell as in bellow, again. 00:09:11.660 --> 00:09:15.440 align:middle line:84% Fret not thyself, my friend said it seemed, I said, 00:09:15.440 --> 00:09:19.890 align:middle line:90% bell as in bellow blared on. 00:09:19.890 --> 00:09:24.030 align:middle line:84% Death obsessed friend and foe which is familiar. 00:09:24.030 --> 00:09:28.790 align:middle line:90% Fret not thyself I did say. 00:09:28.790 --> 00:09:35.030 align:middle line:84% Empty window mu as in mood, I do believe, I said it seemed, 00:09:35.030 --> 00:09:36.500 align:middle line:90% I said." 00:09:36.500 --> 00:09:38.300 align:middle line:90% [PIANO MUSIC] 00:09:38.300 --> 00:13:26.000 align:middle line:90% 00:13:26.000 --> 00:13:29.050 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:13:29.050 --> 00:13:51.000 align:middle line:90%