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Lights

from 1369 Lights by Bryan Thomas

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Turn to the art of the past to make sense of the present. These fragments I shore against my ruins.

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My hole is warm and full of light.
Yes it is full of light.
There's no brighter spot in all of New York than this hole of mine.

This does not exclude Broadway.
Or the view from the Empire State
These two spots are among the darkest in our so-called civilization... culture.

I have one-thousand three-hundred sixty-nine lights

There's only one radio
I plan to have five
Playing the same song at once to overcome the acoustical deadness

Pour me some sloe gin
Over vanilla ice cream
As Louis bends his military instrument into a beam of lyrical sound

I have one-thousand three-hundred sixty-nine lights

So I fight Light & Power with light

This is how the world moves.
No arrow. No spiral.
Prepare for the boomerang of history. Keep a steel helmet handy.

Immature poets imitate.
Mature poets steal.
I stole that from Eliot. I stole it just to prove him wrong.

I have one-thousand three-hundred sixty-nine lights

Truth is light.

Truth is light.

credits

from 1369 Lights, released October 31, 2008
The Buggy Jive is: BT: lead vox, acoustic guitar; JENNIFER: electric guitar; CLEOPATRA JOANZ: bass; LADY MAC: snare, hi-hat, kick drum, tin can.

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Bryan Thomas Albany

Nippertown’s Greg Haymes says Albany soul rocker BRYAN THOMAS's "writes smart, and he writes from the heart, balancing intellect, passion and politics.”

The Times Union named him“Best Male Singer-Songwriter” shortly after he released his acoustic hip-hop debut Radio Plastic Jennifer in 1999. The follow-up soul rock epic Ones and Zeros was Metroland Magazine’s “Album of the Year” in 2002.
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