Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 18:15:07 -0400
Subject: Re:  eno


M wrote:

> ... beset by money problems.  One might in fact ask
>whether this is not the subject matter of all music.

Probably, and thence to all art. Money problems, though, 
are a stand-in for heartache, which may be the root of
what's ineptly called art lacking heart, aching.

Blues goes where art can't reach, keening too. Bagpipes
on the loaming, centuries of inherited grief for dead unknown,
babies unborn, untold lives haywire with disconnect, sparks
awaiting an arc.

Percussions, though, are out of the world. Have you heard the
beating of the canvas in frustration of coloratura longing, the 
whisper of the spatula hurling gobs of over-easy albumin, the 
slither of sweaty satin or serge on competition piano seats,
the spatter of Joplin's nicotiney sweat slopped on stageboards
of unnamed temp stadia?

Plainspoken text, grammar oh so so-so, polite conversation, 
rigorous discourse --  what pain and pleasure do they inhold,
withhold of music heartbeating to tones beyond the ear's range?

Sister, can you spare a tune, to magic glue a fissure?



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