Vision of Sound:
A Concert of Live Music and Dance 2009
"Eine Kinda Bachmusik, pt.2" from "3 preludes to missing the point"
Choreagraphy: Cheryl Wilkins-Mitchell
Piano: Blaise Bryski
Dancers (The Syracuse University South Side Initiative KUUMBA Project):
Waniesha Allen, Caroline Charles, Ashley Green, Margaret Moreno, Niquan Williams, Amani Wortham

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In a surrealist year
of sandwichmen and sunbathers
dead sunflowers and live telephones
house broken politicos with party whips
performed as usual
in the rings of their sawdust circuses
where tumblers and human cannonballs
filled the air like cries
when some cool clown
pressed an inedible mushroom button
and an inaudible Sunday bomb
fell down
catching the president at his prayers
on the 19th green

O it was a spring
of fur leaves and cobalt flowers
when cadillacs fell thru the trees like rain
drowning the meadows with madness
while out of every imitation cloud
dropped myriad wingless crowds
of nutless nagasaki survivors

And low teacups
full of our ashes
floated by


"A Coney Island of the Mind" Copyright © 1958 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Corp.