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Feels Like Geoff

from Then, and Then: a memoir by DATSON

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This is planet Earth
your stop ‘tween birth and death
Chaquira calls it life
but to me it feels like Geoff

Capture flock of birds
who suck in fevered breath
sweep out of the past
after everyone has left

Saddle up wild herd
extinguish barbecue
then unblock the drain
if there’s nothing left to do

Receive every blessing
of hero god right now
put bottles out the front
for the sacred cow

Try exercising discipline
of having too much fun
father scratches head from
too much time in sun

Get the golden fleece
use it as a rag
soak up all the oil
that’s leaking from the hag

She’s come in for a service
mechanics are unfound
bed her down in feathers
enfold her in the sound

The oracle of lips
you should read them every day

A serpent, big apple
a holy mad man’s quest
each of these resides
inside the mind of Geoff

A template, a metaphor
a software fluid plan
of how to be a child
trapped in body not quite man

Suddenly the knees
are folding towards the chin
I’m falling back inside
preparing to begin

This is planet earth
your stop ‘tween birth and death
Chaquira calls it life
but to me it feels like Geoff

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from Then, and Then: a memoir, released June 1, 2020
© Geoffrey Datson and Annette Hughes, Produced by Geoffrey Datson, Recorded and mixed at Greenroom Studio Cooroy.

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GEOFFREY DATSON is a sound artist, combining spoken word, electronica and instrumentation in his recordings. Many poets recite their work to music, but few are also composers. Datson's work is a synthesis of forms of sonic expression in which the voice and the sound field are interdependent. ... more

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