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Too, River
By
Stanley Alexander MARTIN
Mythics contents Form
"0". Mythics..........................2
(Innocence "Before"
(i)
(he hid the nakedness from Him because he was "Aware")
(he kneweth "his nakedness" with Him because he was "conscious")
("I")
("the-I die")
1. Preface on dub-poetry...8
2. Blues of the Flesh..........9
Love story set in a
pop music tradition
Glossary of Patois.......................... 27
3. The River......................29
Love story set in a
classical music tradition
4. Anima Rising................53
The last two days
of the Christ, retold
to classical rhythms
"0": the utterance of/at nothingness..."The Word"
2. Form Mythics content
(after Vladimir Propp)
(Equilibrium):
Dis-equilibrium:
Search ---->
Re-equilibrium:
(Wedding celebration)...
3. Contents mythics form
Journey to Life's fulfilment, and...
4. The neUn
Equilibrium: ","
/ refers,
/ and
v 1 is, and
Wedding: defers.
etc., etc... and 2 relates, and...
referral/deferral...
5. neUn maths
"0" : 1 &
1 & : 1 x 1/1 + 1
1 x 1/1 + 1 : 2 &.... : ...infinity &
6. neUn consciousness
neGus : sleeping
neAus : awakening
neXus : connecting ----> thinking
researching
translating
neYin : the loss at rising to One
neXus : enlightenment...
neXus-neGus : the sleep after enlightenment rising to Too... etc., etc...
7. One relates to Too
(after Standard English)
One knows the excellence of no-thing in all things: the tribute of the River;
Someone holds the keys:
Anyone can the further stairs, and scent the Heaven sent;
Everyone has the dream:
All-of-one knows
god: God is almighty;
Here a Person speaks
To Child:
is Unborn to
The Spirit awakening...
Love is the inner winding chords to Too: soul:
the Real is Sure, Certain: Concrete....
8. Mythic Structures
i. Form/Content
(after Ferdinand de Saussure)
Signifiers - "0"----> 1 : "TOO"
4 : 5! /
3<-----2
ii. Form contents Mythics
(after Claude Levi-Strauss:Greek myths being structures of how to form "2" from "1")
i.
Greek Myths F x : F y ~ F a : F Y
a b x a-1
Greek Myths: A = F (x) : F (Y) ~ B = F (b): F (Y)
a = -(i^2):i^4 b = i^2:-(i^4) x a - 1
Translates.... 1/-1: -1/1 ~-(1+1/1x1): -2/2: "0"/"0"
Which translates: "Functions of one and its contradiction, is transformed into two, contradicting the Word which is God", e.g., contradicting functions Y = -x ; x = -Y......
A man and a woman contradict and are transformed into a union of too (light or dark), in a contradiction with the forces of the WORD which is God... For example, Adam and Eve in Eden...
ii.
"Too" Myths:A = F (x) : F (Y) ~ "Too" = F (i^2}:-(i^4): F (Y)/"1"
-(i^2):i^4 i^2:-(i^4) x -x/i^2
Which translates: "Functions of One and its contradiction, is transformed into two contradicts to it = Too", e.g., contradicting functions Y = x + 1; x = Y-1, which yields:
1/-1 : "0"/"0" ~ x^2:i^2/1^2:1+1/1x1:-2: -2
A good man contradicts with the forces of the WORD and are transformed into a union of too in a contradiction with another union of too... For example in the Bible when chosen man Adam forms a union with Eve, and their too is contradicted by the too of the field...
iii.
River Myths: C = F (B = (x^3 + 1)) : F (Y^3 -1) ~ River = D = F (i^3):F (Y^3 - 1)
- i^3 i^3 (x^3 + 1) i^3
Which translates: "Functions of Too and its contradiction, is transformed into a discourse of Eight, in a contradicts to the WORD ", e.g., contradicting functions Y = x^3 + 1; x = Y^3-1, which yields:
...."Too" = -2:-B = 2 ~ River = 6+2i:8+: i^3 = i^2 = i^3(1-(i^4)) = "0"
A union of too in a contradiction with another union of too... are transformed into the relay of a discoursive fractal of eight, which contradict the WORD... The Too of Adam and Eve, yielded a discoursive fractal, or River, in later tales of Noah, Abraham, Lot, Moses, David, Solomon, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, and Yogi Singh....
iii. Form content Mythics
(after Roland Barthes)
1---> A Signifier defers to the floating utterance of nothingness ("0")...
2---> A Signifier always makes a referral to itself of a SIGNIFIED...
3---> A SIGNIFIED has deference to A WORD MEANING...
4: The WORD is relayed (referral/deferral!) in the total language as a path to truth, a "lie line": a "MYTH"...
5... Each "MYTH" owns a pattern of speech, a "DISCOURSE", which is its "too"! rhetoric...
... 6. "Programming": 7. "Catalogue": 8. "Library": 8+. "Web"....
8+. Go! Mythic translating Alphabet
(after Egyptology)
a - sleeping one/thing/"1"
b - be/big
c - caged see
d - do
e - awake one/the spirit-in-the-thing/he, she, it
ee - aware one/consciousness/"I"
f - force/sign bad
g - sign good/vehicle
h - home/heaven
i - aware one/thinking one/consciousness/"I"
j - just/joy
k - know
l - here
m - move
n - negatively top/black chief
o - connecting one/matter/"0"
oo - linking one/person/"you"
p - take it/leave
q - give it/stay
r - presently/are
s - understanding
t - the way/money
u - linking one/person/"you"
v - too/two
w - route
x - connecting/suffering
y - conscious one/soul/"why"
z - end
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Letters joining-up add "to" in their middle:
e.g., "oo" = "connecting one to connecting one"
= "one connecting one"
= "linking one".
Letters join-up to make words,
e.g., "book" = "be to linking one to know"
= "be you know"
"The River" means:
"The way heaven/home presently aware one of too to sleeping one present"....
1. Preface on dub-poetry
The term dub-poetry, meaning "poetry with a musical rhythm", usually reggae rhythms, was
coined in the 1970's by dub-poet. Oku Onoura; the genre had already been explored by Linton Kwesi
Johnson and John Cooper Clarke in Britain, and others in Jamaica.
The roots of dub-poetry lies in the Jamaican DJ's like I-Roy and Big Youth, and comes from a
tradition of poetry set to music harking back to the Last Poets, in the United States, Beat Poets in the
1950's and 1960's. As a form, dub-poetry is a survival through slavery of the African praise poets, the
Griots, who used songs to their kings and others in the culture, and acted as folk historians.
As praise poets, the dub-poets were journalistic spokespersons for the common folk, and spoke
up about news events in the history of the culture they lived in, giving praise or curse accordingly.
Nowadays, a derivative of the griot-style, rap, is commonplace, but most commonly, with the
political stance not always there, the rappers boasting, or talking grandly of themselves...
Dub-poetry dealing with the politics of personal relationships is not too common, and is the
essential feature of this book, especially in The River and Blues of the Flesh. I have taken some of the
rhythms too, away from much of their traditional bases and into the classical genre...
Stanley Alexander Martin
April 2000
4. Blues of the Flesh
Love story set in a
pop music tradition
1. Pop
And if you are a star, shines
signal, shines as a sun, shines
not as you are, shines
light years away in the distance, shines
without par; shines in the past,
makes you bleed light eternal, you can't be dark:
yet you can be darker,
darker than you are:
so tell, tell me how
stars can be so much of everything, tell
me how you pay to shine
eternally, become a star,
how stars start;
and how stars fade away...
Can't face the truth about the day;
day's break
day's distance into dark, day's
clouds, and day's
rain along the way, a day
away, day's
sun garages in its park, day dreams,
the sky's altar is a holy dress:
all I can see is stars...
2. Dub
Cat along low walls raw
he walks, no
cantankerous talk he talks,
a Ewe:
spend no spare words writ wrote for me,
this cat tall Babel downs
to blackboard chalk...
Down the dead darlings dare
he drops, no
beaten brow of head he fops,
a Bantu:
runs rings around a roundabout you,
dedicated head
not buried by copse...
Sing the sound-songs talking
drumbeat, he comes
bass gongs beaten on every feet:
a Rasta:
ears harken laugh to
Africa, the swing
swells sing as past and
future meet...
Tell he tall tale till
trembles truth, mouth
mind; monster might follows
mute:
Yoruba?
Yes! and Ewe, Bantu too, and Rasta!
Lion along low wall walks tall in youth!
3. Reggae
Sidun sidung sidung
long time sun come
sidun sidung
nahm rum.
Gidun, gidung gidung
long time have fun
gidun gidung
ben' dung.
Lidun, lidung lidung
old man nah young
lidun lidung
-soon come!
4. Rock
Come to me sweet sister moon
I am the sun, I sparkle
and I am waiting:
juice me when the night-time comes;
and can you stay with me till tomorrow morning
when the dawn sits dew upon the grass like diamonds:
I shall hang the sky around your shoulders...
My iceberg heart likens to a sieve
through which the cold-water ocean breaks:
can you meet me
like two trains of colliding aches,
knead me like the baker bakes,
hear me like an empty church:
please, please translate,
lover, I await...
A sorrow sits upon me like a hawk
sits upon hot air,
a shadow veils the sun: it's winter
remind me of weathers when it's spring;
and can you lay upon my garden like a hedgerow
brighten my window-sill with flowers;
I shall thank you with a shine of summer...
My shrouded soul likens to a corpse
through which its breathing hesitates;
can you kiss me with the love
a sailor's ocean breaks
arm me with the strength my mother makes:
consider me like your holy book:
please, please relate:
I await...
5. Rap
I'm like a train on rail
a boat on sail
like a fisherman's line,
long gone bait: King Kong
of Empire state...
I'm either in a fever, or seizure, or neither:
grace, what a face! what shall I say?
"Do you love me?"
I stick like a fly
I pin like a bee
I'm high ball
rub-a-dub king: I love you
"Do you love me?"
Grand slam
out with ma'am
-you like my face!
-where's your place!
... O it's hot!
let's take off what's-it-nots...
I'm either in a fever, or seizure, or neither!
Done!
"You've come?"
-What shall I say?
"Do you love me?"
Oops! boops!
too many cooks!
My you're fat!
Why is that?
"... O, I'm pregnant!"
Life jail sentence!
I'm either in a fever, or seizure, or neither!
Strife! I've a wife!
What shall I say?
"Do you love me?"
I stick like a fly, I
pin like a bee: I
love you!
"She loves me!"
6. Ragga
Man goes to blues-dance
man says to woman - yea,
let's go-deh! All night!
I who had the feeling there
I was let down
I who had the feeling there
left with a frown...
Like a journey into Africa,
my tongue became mute
there was a snake out there
playing on a flute
at once my heart sang:
finally with someone:
the tune on the flute was a brute!
But leaning on the temple hall
I knew others had been playing on my wall:
they say this was a place that was sacred!
At this my heart sang:
lost among the throng,
the pace of the place was a race!
I who had the feeling there
I was let down
I who had the feeling there
left with a frown...
We struck oil in the valley
the rhythm made us dance:
joy like needles,
thrusting like a lance:
at once my heart sang,
but the force made cells bang:
the cause of the pause was the laws...
7. Country Blues
She crazy, she crazy
crazy baby:
pork chop cooking up tonight!
that's right!
I got a woman so rare
I call her my tender roast beef...
I got a woman so rare
I call her my tender roast beef...
she melt like surlion,
like surlion she tastes so sweet!
I brought home my business
laid it out on the kitchen floor...
I brought home my business
laid it out on the kitchen floor...
when I finished working,
I wanted to work some more...
I'm a cook nine-to-five
every evening I'm a chef...
I'm a cook nine-to-five
every evening I'm a chef...
my woman like to eat meat,
one day she's eat us both to death!
Showed her my sausage
she say: "Lord! what a big piece o'pork!"...
Showed her my sausage
she say: "Lord! what a big piece o'pork!"...
I put it in the pot
and praised the God She invented work!
I stirred-fried that sausage
when the juice began to flow...
I stirred-fried that sausage
when the juice began to flow...
that meat got so tender
we practically ate it raw!
My woman vote for Labour
she likes to swell the poor...
My woman vote for Labour
she likes to swell the poor...
when we finished eating
like Oliver she asked for more!
I got a woman so rare
I call her my tender roast beef...
I got a woman so rare
I call her my tender roast beef...
if she don't get second helping
she holla out for thief!
8. Folk
Is birth by-the-way
and is birth wise?
Is that all you say?
"Qu'est-ce-que c'est que sais?"
My love's eyes!
Is life a run-way
and is life prize?
Is that all you say?
"Qu'est-ce-que c'est que sais?"
My love's eyes!
Is death away-day
and is death lies?
Is that all you say?
"Qu'est-ce-que c'est que sais?"
My love's eyes!
9. Lover's Rock
Galang galang
you always follow fashion!
Ring the rhythm, don't plea caution
me and me woman life at stake
so don't hold rhythm, play dub-plate
Galang galang
you always follow fashion!
Come to blues dance
to jump and prance,
dee-jay him, frighten dance...
mean say, man and woman left pickney
fi dee-jay him
play wit we?
Galang galang
you always follow fashion!
Dash wey the life uptown
flash we Dennis Brown;
please on Gregory Isaacs- else
blues-dance riot!
man and woman come fi rub belly
leave dem pickney watching telly
we married life at stake,
selector me warning you, play dub-plate!
Galang galang
you always follow fashion!
Wa this! Mr Frankie Paul!
Steady Freddie - Lord!
me back against the wall
- mercy mercy selecter
please have mercy!
Selecter selecter, please have mercy!
10. Dub-Poetry
Galang alang yu own pace
galang boy, you is man
an you have a plan:
galang boy!
Bring her sing-ting
sing-ting fi de ring
mek she ring-ding,
she want sing sing-ting!
A wuk yu wuk
you nuh bruk, a wuk yu wuk
a pick up butt
you and she in luck - yu wuk!
Sickly pickney nah dead pickney
dem want wet-knee
dem soon healthy pickney!
A dutti shirt nah dutti!
but e wuti doh dutti boy,
she an yu pickney dem smile ee?
E wuti!
11. Samba
My love sends the ocean
tidies like a broom the waves:
kilns kisses of devotion to the night
she sits upon the day
and stares away the stars...
My love wears for ringlet the swooning sun
my love is mother-of-pearl the moon - but!
how long shall sunshine shimmer the naked moon
shimmy a shingle of shilling upon the night
shall a shilling of shine surrender to the night
shall night sunshine?
Or shall night shell shelter from a shanty town of stars?
12. Jazz Rock
Free!
Free!
Free at last!
Freedom, freedom at last!
Freedom is a bird without a heart,
heart-broke from start,
sitting on hot air it floats,
floats without a heart:
to die, to die and depart!
Sitting above heart
no heart clouds my chart
I sit above my chart:
hovering, I start to start,
Start wings beating fast, faster than fast:
windrush thrush,
thrusting to flush to rush
downwind seeking clear
gliding on air to hear
warbling in ear:
is my lover returned here?
Free!
Free!
Free at last!
Freedom, freedom at last!
Freedom is a bird without a heart,
heart-broke from start,
sitting on hot air it floats,
floats without a heart:
to die - and depart!
13. Urban Blues
Flood finding flushing,
flushing fire-flood and fire-storm;
fishing for fishes, fisherman's fright is form...
She could be upstanding,
swell me till day's break strolls along...
She could be upstanding,
swell me till day's break strolls along...
a match to a flame, a flame burning to a mighty sun...
Flood finding flushing,
flushing fighting fire-flood and fire-storm;
fishing for fishes, fisherman's fright is form...
Fine me find me
find my flavour flavouring your tongue - yes!
Fine me find me
find my flavour flavouring your tongue...
future's flight, future's flight has come...
Print paper pretender
print paper passion pretending pain...
pretext pretext!
pain pricks, pain pricks!
plain paper, plain paints pricks
print paper passion, pain is plain...
from my first moment of rising
I work and count the scars,
but each night my woman freed me,
she freed me from my prison bars....
Print paper pretender
print paper passion pretending pain...
pretext pretext!
pain pricks, pain pricks!
plain paper, plain paints pricks
print paper passion, pain is plain...
Drum drummie me heart drum drum,
bass beat by drum
down drum
beat bass by drum
hung drum
done drum!
Flood finding flushing,
flushing fire-flood and fire-storm;
fishing for fishes, fisherman's fright is form...
From a saint to a sinner,
from sinner to a sinner's fall...
From a saint to a sinner,
from sinner to a sinner's fall...
she would lay her cotton on me,
she wear me to the ball...
a man may journey and think,
the train would always come along...
a man may journey and think,
the train would always come along...
when he arrive at the station
the train has long since come and gone.
14. Afro-Rock
Drum drum drummy
me heart drum drum
hum drum
base beat by drum
hung on drum
dumb drum
done drum...
a welcoming home
welcome home
home from roam,
welcome!
akwaaba! welcoming within!
akwaaba! welcoming within!
akwaaba! welcome to my skin
welcome home to friend,
welcome home my friend...
akwaaba! welcoming within!
akwaaba! welcoming within!
I cannot sing the words
wings have given flight to words:
absurd
catch me, catch me. catch me:
all alone, freedom became a bird
bird-brained bird
gift-less with wings
tied-up with strings
akwaaba! welcoming within!
akwaaba!
welcome home my skin
watch me watch me watch me...
TAKE OFF!
Glossary
a - is
akwaaba! - welcome!
alang - along
ben' dung - rave up
blues - type of black dance music
bruk - broke
dash wey - throw away
deh - there
dem - them
doh - though
dub-plate - hit record
dutti - dirty
e - it's
ee - yes
fi - for
galang - go along/I don't believe you
gidun/gidung - get down
lidun/lidung - lie down
mek - make
nahm - eat greedily
nah/noh - not
pickney - child
Qu'est-ce-que
c'est que sais? - what is it that knows?
ring-ding - celebrate
rub-a-dub - sexy person
rub-belly - Black sexual dance for couples
selecter - one who chooses records at dance
sidun/sidung - sit down
sing-ting - something
wa - what
wet-knee - spoil
wit - with
wuk - work
wuti - worth it
yu - you
1. The River
Love story set in a
classical music tradition
River the beginnings
If the storms;
if the clothes wet and I
a rider in your storms:
if I a vehicle in my cruiser to your coast;
lightning bolt crashing to your heart:
shall you under me your umbrella;
shall I a shelter from the rain?
Landlocked the sailor from the shore;
land-sick
and swashbuckling to your door:
the suit wet and I
a thunder in your storms:
if I a passenger in your ship;
lightening into your deck of Queen of Hearts,
shall you suicide me at the rails,
haul me to your keel,
tie me to a knot in your ropes:
or whistle me onto board as Jack of your calling card?
If the storms;
if the sails wet and I
a rider in your storms:
shall I the spring clean and new,
shall night wrap me up in two wells,
shall we warm?
I a rider in your storms....
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