What Is It All But Luminous by Art Garfunkel

Author:Art Garfunkel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2017-09-26T04:00:00+00:00

To bathe in the fountain you must take off your clothes.

Stage Life, so much less than it seems to be.

Spoken for and available, vulnerable to cant,

raked amid rivers of instrument cables,

even the floor is aslant.

We’re caterers, the band and I,

we serve courses from “El Condor” to Marvin Gaye,

the soundmen, the haulers, each in our way

pray for moments of truth.

We set up the lighting truss, go through the sound check,

look for the ensemble to fuse. Listening is everything.

Give it all up to the Gods and then get out of town…

But first stick around a while after the show:

They’re loading the speakers into the truck, miles to go

…I turn to the faces I sing for—I hear it, in the deep

heart’s core, there at the stage door. I see it, their glittering eyes are gay!

Fountain spray.

Each in her way went awandering while we played.

I personally prayed to the “verb” all night,

to the reverb, the echo, the wetness of sound.

I know my call. It’s all around me as I sign my name.

I feel the heart jump—all eyes dewy,

within a band of fans, I stand in makeup,

naked at the pump.

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