City of Legends

I will fill in everyone on the second part of this entry’s title later…special thanks to Mark Petrulo for that tale.

The first part of the title involves an email I got just today from a reader in the Netherlands (no, not the Nether Regions or the Nefarious Zone) who had encountered a musical composition last Spring in the Netherlands and had opportunity to meet the performer and asked him about some lyrics he particularly enjoyed. 

He was told they were lines from a poem, but the performer (whose name I do not know yet) declined to name the poet.  The reader (whom I will identify as "Marcel" as that is how they identified themself) set out to track down the source, eventually finding out from a third party that it was from a poem of mine.  Unfortunately, no one seemed to be sure which poem (hey, over 18,000 poems in my catalog, it gets complicated).  So, Marcel wrote to me asking me to identify the lyric.

The piece I was given is actually two different sections from my poem "the philosophy of dreams", which you can read at the Amomancer site:  http://amomancer.blogspot.com/2007/05/philosophy-of-dreams.html and for which archive.org keeps a recording of my reading it in a virtual beatnik cafe.

So, there tis, the mystery lyrics in Netherlands are solved.  I have asked Marcel to tell me the name of the artist and where I might find an audio of the performance.  I will keep you informed…

Now, about the red Tae Kwan Do t-shirt…