It will end. This current of exhale and inhale.
Married to our dreams, that’s all that it is.
A brain that has feathers.
Taking flight to nowhere, yet everywhere.
As the numbers on the clock move with every blink.
The chandelier lighting hugs my dining room table, like my yoga mat hugs my temporal thighs.
While minimal satisfaction slides down my chakras as I downward dog.
Consumption of my solitaire religiously invaded me.
Widowing my present,
ticktocking me to death which is only another entrance.
How do we know which dreams aren’t real?
Rock-a-bye baby my Mary Poppins.
We all have to sleep to survive.
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Natasha Collazo
Selected Writer in Residency, Champagne France ---2026
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By Natasha CollazoExclusive • about a year ago
'20/20'
"Do It Again" the track that would ultimately open the Beach Boys final album on Capitol Records which was released on February 10th 1969 had originally been released as a single in August of 1968. The track was the first of many post-Pet Sounds era throwbacks to the early Beach Boys sound which would become continually more cliched and eventually lead the Beach Boys to the level of self-parody they would eventually succumb to in the 1980s while their closest contemporaries The Beatles nearing the end of their run in 1969 would go on to be viewed as the most influential band of all time. However, the song itself is not bad on its surface, and it opens with a futuristic sounding (for 1969) drumbeat captured by then-Beach Boys engineer Stephen Desper using tape delays on the drums performed by Dennis Wilson and John Guerin. The song has been re-recorded numerous times over the years on various Beach Boys-related projects most notably the 2011 re-recording at Capitol studios featuring the five surviving Beach Boys at the time backed instrumentally by various members of both the Brian Wilson Band and Mike Loves touring "Beach Boys" to promote the then upcoming Beach Boys 50th Anniversary reunion tour in 2012. The hammering and power drill sound at the end of the song was an excerpt from a track called "Workshop" that was to be a part of the uncompleted "SMiLE" album.
By Sean Callaghan8 days ago in Beat
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Natasha, this is beautiful. You are a gifted all around artist!
This is wonderful. You create such cool images. It's always a treat to read your work!
another great one! wonderfully written... "tictoking me to death" so good!
Thank yal so much!!!
“ ticktocking me to death which is only another entrance” really struck me! Incredible work, Natasha!
"The chandelier lighting hugs my dining room table, like my yoga mat hugs my temporal thighs." Oh my, I especially loved this line so much! I'm so freaking in love with your poem!
The lines.....Taking flight to nowhere, yet everywhere....I like the most.... I like your poem
That last line is so true. I have lived in a constant state of sleep deprivation for the past three years and I know the importance sleep plays in our survival. I really enjoyed your creativity in the words you chose to use and the overall thoughts and ideas. Job well done!!!