Yeah.
There's a lot of regional variation in the Cantares.
So the rhythms change based on the region
that's being represented in different sections
of the manuscript.
It's like the Confucian odes actually.
Confucius went out to all these rural areas of China
and just collected odes.
And you can track the regional variation in the Confucian.
Same thing in the Cantares.
So the rhythm changes in this one.
"XIV."
Citadel siege there, caught like a bird there.
Quickly, the feather trips across the drums,
beating leather.
Why sing?
Why bother?
Why remember?
It's a terrible time for all the households.
And only kids still live in rituals, vaguely.
Whose painting is that?
That one right there.
Ask the people why a child could see
such color, green shade of live water, ocher of old honey,
while we walk in dim downpours.
Lightning misses us like this.
We can scarcely reminisce.
Some say that, that, that.
I say this, this, this.