"PS-400 Old Poets- Hollywood" by Numi Who

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song to "Hollywood" by Karl Shapiro

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Numi Who

I now create music so people can spend time with better company.

Cover Songs on Soundclick: https://www.soundclick.com/numiwhocreativecovers Writing: https://allpoetry.com/Mr._Numi_Who- Books: Numi Who? on Amazon (books) Art: http://wbiro.deviantart.com Early Art: http://www.flickr.com/photos/38154648@N00 Music Videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/wbiro Self-made Music Catalog (to 2016): http://numi-imagination-creations.me/01-art-catalog/wbiro_artistic_catalog_1967-2016_update_34.html Original Music on Soundcloud (more complete list there): https://soundcloud.com/wbiro Cover Songs on Soundcloud (more complete list there): https://soundcloud.com/user-288568536

Song Info

Genre

Podcasts • Poetry

Author

words: Karl Shapiro; music: wbiro

Rights

wbiro

Uploaded

September 11, 2011

Track Files

MP3

MP3 5.2 MB • 128 kbps • 5:39

Story behind the song

poetry book improv

Lyrics

Farthest from any war, unique in time,
Like Athens or Bagdad, the city life,
Between dry purple mountains and the sea.
The air is smog and famous every day,
just like the postcard, bringing bungalows and sights.

Here where the eccentric thrives,
Laughter and love are leading industries,
The parasite, the scholar are well paid,
The quack, he wreaks his alabaster office,
The moron and the genius are enshrined!
And the mystic makes a fortune quietly.

Here, all the superlatives come true,
And beauty is marketed like a basic food.

And beauty is marketed like a basic food!
Like a basic food.

Alien, crude, hidious, whim, orge,
Secluded, beginning, spot, harum,
More true, like hidious Pittsburg!
Adolescence just as vile,
And yet it is archetecture and its talk, all the while.

Yes, yes, more glamorous to the ignorant,
The civilization of the brave,
This is its soul, this is the cleverest of all.

Rest from your dreams of travels, all is news,
No rooms claim is all is permanent,
Here may the tourist quite sincere at last
Rest from his dreams of travel.

Alice and Cinderella are most real!
Where history repeats its vivid blunders.

From "Hollywood" by Karl Shapiro

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