jrtom

snagged from maradydd:

Put your music player on shuffle, and write down the first line of the first twenty songs. Post the poem that results. The first line of the twenty-first song is the title.

Notes:

• I've got a lot of instrumental music, and it seemed a shame to leave it out entirely. So I've left it in where it occurred, but didn't count them as part of the 21 songs.
  
• I took some liberties with arrangement into stanzas.
  
• I left out the 2 tracks of French language lessons.
  

Personally, I think that Meredith's worked much better as poetry, but the title of mine kicks ass in this context. I'm just sayin'.

"Tell Me, Who's That Writing?"

Only a woman's heart
Send your love
Fear no more the heat o' the sun
Did you see the frightened ones?
Here am I

[instrumental: sub-Saharan]

I saw you dancing out the ocean
I don't want to spend the rest of my life
Oh, Mary, don't you weep
[percussion solo]
[piano solo]
Today...find my way

[Celtic instrumental]
[orchestral instrumental]

There's a calm surrender to the rush of day
[orchestral instrumental]
You come out at night
Domineo veniteo sacramentum

I am just an aging drummer boy
When John Henry was a little baby

[brass ensemble plays "Summertime" from Porgy and Bess]
Hey girl
Send your love
Climbing under
I see me with you and all the things you do

[brass ensemble instrumental]

This is the day
[percussion solo]
Seven weeks have passed now since she left me

I think this constitutes adequate background information for the reason that I typically create playlists. (Often playlists consisting of several hundred songs, but playlists nonetheless.)