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a large garage

from theater of trees by John R. Campbell

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The world was all sleeping, all falling to sleep,
oh, and the part of the world that is all-inclusive
wants me to know. Was it only a scene,
everything, the streetlights and the pines,
right down to the scent of snow?
The problem from the first was my love
of scenarios, absurdities in sequence
that I called my life. I turned to paintings:
as with Degas' dancers, the moment
was rendered so vividly
that history, in a fit of rapture, fled.
Left here afloat, I can only observe
as the girl in the tutu spins.
Now all I can see is this theater,
as absurdities spill out to the street.
Alone and uncertain, I walk among rows
of gabled houses, each turret smothered
in autumn maples. A man is urinating
behind a tree, singing, and a large garage
is harboring a green and secret jeep.
Drivers in their darkened cars,
moist amidst upholstery,
and warm among their metals:
these are the sinister,
comic in their search for meaning
as they clutch and shift and marvel,
enclosed in a world that is not their own.

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from theater of trees, released August 8, 2016

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John R. Campbell Corvallis, Oregon

John R. Campbell creates soundscapes via jazz, experimental, contemplative, spoken word, & alt roots textures. He's worked with
Trio Bravo triobravo.bandcamp.com
Blind Lions blindlions.bandcamp.com
Woodman/ Kellam/ Campbell woodmankellamcampbell.bandcamp.com
Avant Garage
avantgarage.bandcamp.com
& others. His blues persona, Green Man Blues, can be found at greenmanblues.bandcamp.com ... more

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