no Encore, no new dates

no Encore, no new dates

 

 

 

shutdowns,

put-downs

 

tweeters with bad timbre

the bass, ear splitting din

corrupting the sheathing of the hall,

within

 

impasse in vinyl coating

the music stops

 

deft ears listen closely for a sound

then break into shattered peace

 

silent screaming

and inert musicians

watching their instruments

 

lean against crumbling walls.

 

 

erin-cilberto

1/21/18

Reviews

[andrew mitchell]

This doesn’t sound like music to me! MOre like a band that should quit and hang up it’s guitars.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you, perhaps they should.
j.

[barleygirl]

Always love your newly-minted & creatively-extended metaphors! This morning my reading choices seem to be focused on this widespread theme of relating badly! It must be epidemic! (((HUGS))) Fondly, Margie

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your kind words, Margie.
j.

[Annette Pisano-Higley]

Yes! Great metaphor, wordplay, eloquent language and timely theme. Great truth spoken sadly here. The “silent screaming”-brilliant. The cacophony, the “ear-splitting din” of ego and greed described perfectly. ‘Just another brick in the wall’...A Master Class write my friend!

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your kind review, Annette.
you are encouraging...
j.

[Annette Pisano-Higley]

........:)!

[R.E. Ray]

Another good one, J... and so timely. If this band of "535 members" (not including the shaggy maestro) were to disband and never play another miserable song, we'd all be better for it. Instead, we wait because it's the only band in town.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

yes, We Wait.
thank you, Robert.

j.

[Paul Bell]

I was listening to this politician telling the media the armed forces wouldn't be getting paid. But they would continue to do their job. Was hoping for a mass tweet of. Oh no we're not.
As usual, it's okay for rich politicians to survive. Always hits the man and women on the frontline.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

maybe just a Mass would do, to pray for those of us caught in the crossfire.
thank you, Paul.
j.

[Paul Bell]

Yeah, you must feel you're being held to ransom.