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The Soldier His Wife and...
by
Red Sparrow
on
Endless Loop
(2002) samples
The Charles Bukowski Tapes
(Barbet Schroeder,
):
The Soldier his wife and the bum
I was a bum at San Francisco that once managed to go to a symphony concert along with the well dressed people. And the music was good but something about the audience was not. And something about the orchestra and the conductor was not. Although the building was fine and the acoustic 's perfect I prefered to listen to the music alone on my radio. And afterwards I did go back to my room. I turned on the radio. But there was a pounding on the wall. 'Shut that god damn thing off.' There was a soldier in the next room bubbling with his wife and soon he would go over there to protect me from Hitler. So I snapped the radio off and then I heard his wife say 'You shouldn't have done that'. And the soldier said 'Fuck that guy' which I thought was a very nice thing for him to tell his wife to do. Of course she never did. Anyhow I never went to another live concert. At that night I listened to the radio very quietly
War has it's price and peace never lasts. And Millions of young men everywhere will die. As I'd listening to the classical music I heard them making love. Desperatly and mournfuly to Brahms, Mozart, and Climax and through the shared walls of our darkness.