[identity profile] whos-on-1st.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] greatpoetry
My sister lost her virginity to the White Album
and even now she thinks Bungalow Bill
is a love song. How music photographs
a moment: I was thirteen, dancing

with a boy I wanted to kiss
when Al Green told us to stay together.
For three minutes and eighteen seconds
I believed, but over the summer
he moved to Wichita. Nights, much later
I fell asleep with someone else
to Dark Side or Kid A, until that afternoon

driving home the day after he left.
Bob Dylan's It Ain't Me, Babe
was in my tape deck--maybe even worse
was the low rush of cars
going over the bridge
after I cut the sound.

Date: 2006-03-20 04:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scriblingdreams.livejournal.com
I love this.
thank you so much for sharing.

Date: 2006-03-20 04:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stopyelling.livejournal.com
this is just so... personal.
i love it.

Date: 2006-03-20 05:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] joseishijin.livejournal.com
Wonderful. And so true how certain songs are like a slap in the face, the way they bring a memory so forcefully to mind.

*sigh*

Date: 2006-03-20 05:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rain-fae.livejournal.com
I relate to this completely. I love it! I think I'll have to post this in my own journal :) Thank you for sharing!

Date: 2006-03-20 06:55 am (UTC)

Date: 2006-03-20 08:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cabaiste84.livejournal.com
Awesome awesome awesome....

Date: 2006-03-20 08:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rachiecakies.livejournal.com
awesome!

is she related at all to simon armitage?

Date: 2006-03-20 01:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] desolateangel83.livejournal.com
Being a music geek, I love that poem!

Date: 2006-03-20 05:20 pm (UTC)

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