Dirt and flies are no longer your enemies
The battle against them lost years ago
Grooved floors from a million scrapes
Boots and tools set in the back porch.
Here, lunch is dinner
Everything stops at 3pm
For Coronation Street
Peeling potatoes with aching hearts
This is when the children
Get into mischief
And horses lie in the sun
Tails swishing, nostrils flaring
Grasshoppers intensify their pastorale
As the heat of the day peaks
I have only ever seen monarch butterflies in Saskatchewan
Abundant goldenrod frames gravel roads.
Never had I beheld the coast
But I was friends with a gentle ocean
Glossy blooms of blue flax undulating
Waves crest, unbroken by trees.
Generations of border collies
Bear the same name
Why learn something new
When there is so much work to do.
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"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 Callaghan7 days ago in Beat
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Fascinating poem and well written, good luck
What a quietly powerful piece—And that last stanza? Whew. Hits like wisdom carved into a barn beam.✨💖