Kazu Music discordant at first too much stimuli for neurodivergence to tolerate without an escape plan in place unless love and patience can settle and soften and rebuild a family in all its lovely mess.
@Home Studio – 210th poem of the year (After watching Music by Sia with Debbie and Celinda.)
Actors (clockwise from top C) Martin Luther McCoy, Dana Fuchs, T.V. Carpio, Ekaterina Sknavina, Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Kiva Dawson, Joe Anderson and Halley Wegryn Gross are shown in a scene from the film “Across The Universe” in this undated publicity photograph. https://images.app.goo.gl/VGx3qPKwxrQnu3xp6
i’m just a Girl standing here wanting you to Hold Me Tight so i can give you All My Loving. I Want to Hold Your Hand. though i endure tough times With a Little Help From my Friends, It Won’t Be Long before i need more than they can give, but I’ve Just Seen a Face that i can never forget, and that is saying a lot for me. i pray that god will Let It Be our destiny that we will Come Together forever, and if we ever get married, Why Don’t We Do It in the Rain? If I Fell, would you catch me? I Want You to be the one who always catches me, not the one who says, “She’s So Heavy”, and shirks the hard parts of love. Dear Prudence will be our saving grace, for our future will never lack with us in it. we’ll be Flying high the Blue Jay Way over the rainbow and off to neverland where I Am the Walrus and you are the Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite because you make my heart soar. Something you said to me changed my perspective forever, Oh! Darling. you loved me as i was, freckles and paleness, green-eyed simplicity, and Strawberry Fields Forever. it was a Revolution to be loved for myself and celebrated for my curves. you love me when i suffer, and While My Guitar Gently Weeps, you hold and comfort me, transporting my grief Across the Universe. you love me when my anger has turned our world Helter Skelter and i have forgotten Happiness is a Warm Gun aimed at a Blackbird the only way to handle strife? no, you have shown me that it’s ok to walk away, to pause, to let things simmer down, then say Hey Jude-iciously discuss our differences. Don’t Let Me Down, my love. don’t ever become someone other than who you are. whoever said, All You Need Is Love, never got a divorce. you also need the right person, a person who makes you feel like Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds when things are rough and you feel like lana in the dirt with slime.
@Home Studio – 89th poem of the year
Todd, Suzanne., et al. Across the Universe Widescreen., Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 2009.
Is it wicked to want love? Some think so. Perhaps they have never known the power that comes from hearts that beat in unison and lives that are fated to be intertwined like woven cords.
Is it wicked to demand respect? Some say so. Perhaps they have never known the freedom that comes from minds open to truth revealed by struggle and growth after the fight has been won and admiration earned.
Is it wicked to expect equality? Some believe so. Perhaps they have never known the joy that comes from souls fired by flames of cosmic boldness who know the real story is so much better than the lies.
@Home Studio after seeing Wicked on stage at Bass Concert Hall in Austin, Texas 3/16/24 (a Christmas give from my husband from this year) – 66th poem of the year
Wicked. Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman, 2003, Bass Concert Hall, Austin, TX, 16 March, 2024.
Seething anger must be aimed at an enemy, or else. If there is no target, they risk ricochet; with no one else to hurt, they have to feel all the pain.
@Home Studio – 59th poem of the year (after watching the 2021 version of Westside Story with Debbie, Yulia, and Celinda)
“Oh, there’s no need to cry because life is a carnival, and it’s more beautiful to live singing.” -Celia Cruz “Life is a Carnival”
“Ay, no hay que llorar que la vida es un carnaval, y es más bello vivir cantando.” -Celia Cruz “La Vida Es Un Carnaval”
“Ay, no hay que llorar…” Tears don’t heal a scar. Instead, accept la paz granted only by loss to those hit by the rule “Que la vida es cruel.”
You see, it’s a lie, this compunction to cry, for it says we’re alone, pero “nunca estará solo.” Dios está contigo. God is where we go.
And when we hate or raise complaint, sin, pollute, make war, “Ay, no hay que llorar…” Rather, sing one and all “que la vida es un carnaval.”
(@ Home Studio after watching the Spanish musical La Usurpadora: The Musical with Celinda and Debbie, which featured Celia Cruz’s song as the opening number. I have many happy Salsa memories dancing to this song – 14th poem of the year.)
Translation Spanish to English (It will not rhyme in the translation):
“Oh, there’s no need to cry…” Tears don’t heal a scar. Instead, accept the peace granted only by loss to those hit by the rule “that life is cruel.”
You see, it’s a lie, this compunction to cry, for it says we’re alone, but “we are never alone.” God is with us. God is where we go.
And when we hate or raise complaint, sin, pollute, make war, “Oh, there’s no need to cry…” Rather, sing one and all “because life is a carnival.”
Cruz, Celia; Daniel, Victor, “La Vida Es Un Carnaval,” Mi Vida Es Cantar, 1998. La Usurpadora: The Musical, Limón; Santiago, Hiojos, María. Walden Entertainment, Inc., 2023.
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