Audio Collage: Starting Directions To
This is a poem mashed up with a piece of music … wherein a robot takes over a Glitch Mob song and manages to give directions to a place worth getting to.
I’m imitating the experience of my smartphone interrupting my music to give me directions. I decided to write my own ‘directions’, get the computer to read them, and then mash it up with a song with a beat (with apologies to The Glitch Mob, who made the song, called Fistful of Silence, but had no control over what I did with it).
Listen first (loud), then read the words.
Starting Directions To …
Starting directions to
the land that I promise you.
Proceed to the route.
Proceed to the route.
Turn thou neither to the right nor to the left.
Do not be afraid of the desert.
Turn thou neither to the right nor to the left;
nor make up your mind to return to the land
where Pharaoh broke your back …
with bread
In the endless horizontal,
there has always been a pillar
of fire
And after the scorching desert heat by day
and fire by night
only a blind man would miss the cloud.
Proceed to the route.
Proceed to the route.
Proceed to the route.
At dawn,
turn to the east and face the rising sun.
Raise your fist.
At the right moment, open your hand,
to reveal its well-traveled lines to the brightening sky.
And as the heavens read the roadmap of your palm,
know that you have already come
home