[Audio clip: view full post to listen] this is the start of a three song death scene. clarity is coming for mr. sullivan, and so is the end of this song cycle. the first step is acceptance. at that point he will be opened up to his core. and then the curtains will fall. as introduced [...]
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] probably the most depressing song yet, but i’m sure i can top it. after two weeks of revery, mr. sullivan emerges back in his hospital room. things continue downhill. not much to say here. the battlefield has shrunk to the point of the few inches that separate reality [...]
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] number 26. five percent of the way there… on an odd association, his son’s war experience shifts into his experience in the armed services in the early fifties, which reads more like a vacation. a singular shapshot of freedom and ease and shameless hedonism. how much is real [...]
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] i thought i’d write a few little ditties before getting back to the story line. my new music room has windows. there’s grass and sky out there. i can even see a piece of the space needle. i felt the happy songs coming… no such luck.
