POEM + AUDIO: WHEN YOU SAID YOU LOVED ME
when you said you loved me what did you do with it after you didn't anymore after the rain of love dried after laughs after baths after toast & watermelon after cups of water in the night after morning smiles & phone calls i know what i did with mine i have a wall of pain painted nigerian indigo, created lyrics for a howlin' wolf, fashioned a mask of brown sadness, & in a midnight hour buried love's corpse quietly watching dry eyed as the heart-red crypt slipped peacefully deep into the sea of my experiences where the brackish-green, obsidian sealed sepulcher shall sleep untroubled by resurrection attempts when you said you loved me i never thought of it in the past tense what did you do with it after you didn't anymore _________________ Kalamu ya Salaam – vocals Stephan Richter – clarinet Wolfi Schlick – reeds Frank Bruckner – guitar Mathis Mayer - cello Georg Janker - bass Michael Heilrath - bass Roland HH Biswurm - drums Recorded: June 14, 1998 – "ETA Theatre" Munich, Germany —kalamu ya salaam
