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The Power of Cash
Johnny Cash is dead
and I'm drinkin' beer
listening to
the Man in Black,
a pure product of America,
name-check Kalamazoo
in his "I've Been Everywhere"
and,
you have to believe that
Voice
when he says
he HAS been everywhere.
Ah, it's an
American Recordings 1,2,3 and 4
Marathon
programmed by me
"Unchained"
lyric: "take this weight from me,
let my spirit be
Unchained"
Ah, the decay
evident in
"Hurt" video
70 year old Cash
covering
Nine Inch Nails
and who else could
without it seeming
wrong?
Who else win
MTV video
award for this?
How many times
do you think
MTV
REALLY
played this video?
Original outlaw,
rebel, outrider
Sight going
glaucoma
Cash, speaking
in his room
with shelves of
books:
"This is a room of
regrets
now.
I miss
my books."
Rows of history, theology
gone unused,
collecting dust,
shame.
Another beer
and Cash
singing
"I Won't Back Down"
more truth
from the Man
"I See A Darkness"
believe it
What makes
you trust
EVERY word?
"I'm doin alright
for
Country Trash"
"We'll all be equal
under the ground"
late Cash
"When The Man Comes Around"
symbolic,
biblical
Still
at height
of his
powers
Cash
from liner notes:
"I spent more time on this song than any I ever wrote"
based, loosely on the Book of
Revelations
Let's see better
from
contemporary
or hell,
someone half that
age
Ah, "hurt"
POWERFUL
Cash
BECOMING
this song
Possessing
overtaking
"I Hung My Head"
saddest
song
ever
heard
more
the songs,
hundreds,
maybe thousands
America,
piss-poor
for the
loss
Few
American Originals
left:
Vonnegut, Ferlinghetti, Mailer
Culture
overtaken,
watered down
No pure products
left
Here's to you,
John,
there
will not
be
another
(written real time, spontaneous
as I listened to American Recordings 1-4 and drank and drank
tears for the man in Black
and the loss
of another portion of
the
REAL AMERICA)
©2003 Paul Bach, Jr.
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