Luyện nghe bài hát Self Evident

(inspired by the WTC disaster)

yes,
us people are poems
we're 90%
a leanness of meaning
approaching
and once a time
we moonshine
rushing the throat of a giraffe
yes, rushing the long hallway
despite the p.a. announcement says
yes, rushing the long stairs
with the whiskey of
and distilled
to eighteen
burning down our
the hall
down the
in a building so
that it always be there
yes, part of a pair
there on the bow of ark
the most couple
just back parked
against a blue sky
on a beatific
in its Indian summer
on the day that
to its knees
after strutting for a century
without saying you
or

and the was subsonic
and the smoke was
between the setup and the line
'cause we all on time for work that day
we all boarded that for to fly
and then while the fires were
we all climbed up on the
and then we all hands
and into the sky

and every borough looked up when it heard the blast
and then every dumb movie was summarily surpassed
and the exodus uptown by foot and
looked more like war than anything I've so far
so far
so far
so fierce and
a poetic so far gone
that jackass newscaster was struck dumb and stumbling
'oh my god' and 'this is unbelievable' and on and on
and I'll tell you what, while at it
you can the pentagon
keep the
keep each and TV
that's trying to convince me
to
in some prep school plan to perpetuate retribution
retribution
even as the blue toxic smoke of our lesson in
is still in the air
and there's ash on our
and ash in our hair
and there's a fine silt on every
from kitchen to Brooklyn
and the are full of stories
sudden twists and misses
and every open bar is crammed to the rafters
with tales of narrowly disasters
and the whiskey is
like before
as all the country
folks just shake heads
and

so here's a to all the folks who live in Palestine

El

a toast to the folks living on the pine ridge reservation
under the stone cold gaze of mt.

here's a toast to all nurses and doctors
who daily women with a choice
who down a threat the size of Oklahoma City
just to listen to a woman's voice

here's a to all the folks on death row right now
awaiting the guillotine
who are shackled there with and can only escape into their heads
to find peace in the form of a

'cause take our playstations
and we are a third nation
the thumb of some blue blood royal son
who stole the oval office and that election
I
it take a weatherman
to look and see the weather
Jeb said he'd deliver Florida,
and boy did he

and we hold these truths to be evident:
#1 George W. is not president
#2 America is not a democracy
#3 the media is not me
'cause I am a poem hyper-distillation
I've got no room for a lie so
I'm looking out over my whole human
and I'm my glass in a toast

here's to our last drink of fossil
let us vow to get off of this
shoo away the swarms of planes
and find that train we lost
once upon a time the line followed the river
and into all the backyards
and the was waving
the graffiti was us
from brick walls and
we were rolling ridges
through
under
I dream of touring like Duke
in my own car
I dream of on the tall blonde wooden benches
in a grand station with grace
and standing out on the platform
and feeling the air on my

give back the its distant whistle
give the darkness back its
give the big oil the finger finally
and how to rock-n-roll
yes, the lessons are all us and a change is waiting there
so it's time to pick through the rubble, clean the
and the air
get our government to pull its big out of the sand
of someone desert
put it back in its
and the hypocritical chants of
freedom

'cause when one lone rang
in two and one
at ten nine
on one one
which is the number we all
when that lone phone rang off the wall
right off our desk and down the hall
down the long
in a so tall
the whole world turned
just to it fall

and while at it
remember the first around?
the
the truck?
the garage?
the princess that even feel the pea?
remember joking around in our on avenue D?

can you imagine how many paper coffee cups would have to change design
following a reversal of the New York skyline?!

it was a joke, of
it was a
at the
and that was a few years ago
so let the record
that the FBI was all over case
the plot was obvious and in everybody's face
and scoping scene

the CIA
or is it
committing crimes against humanity
with this of eventuality
as its
for abuse expensive abuse
and it didn't a clue
look, another window to see
way up
on the floor

key
another
10%
90%
3000 some disguised as people
on an almost too day
must be more poems
in some passion play
so now it's job
and my job
to make it way
to make sure they didn't die in
sshhhhhh....
baby
the train?