Luyện nghe bài hát Self Evident

(inspired by the WTC disaster)

yes,
us are just poems
we're 90%
a leanness of meaning
approaching
and upon a time
we were
rushing down the of a giraffe
yes, rushing down the long
what the p.a. announcement says
yes, rushing the long stairs
with the of eternity
and distilled
to eighteen
burning down our
the hall
down the
in a building so
it will always be there
yes, it's of a pair
on the bow of Noah's ark
the most couple
just kickin back
against a perfectly sky
on a beatific
in its summer breeze
on the day America
fell to its
after strutting around for a
without saying you
or

and the shock was
and the was deafening
between the and the punch line
'cause we were all on for work that day
we all boarded plane for to fly
and then while the were raging
we all climbed up on the
and we all held hands
and jumped the sky

and every borough up when it heard the first blast
and then every dumb action movie was surpassed
and the uptown by foot and motorcar
looked like war than anything I've seen so far
so far
so far
so and ingenious
a poetic so far gone
that every newscaster was struck dumb and stumbling
over 'oh my god' and is unbelievable' and on and on
and I'll you what, while we're at it
you can keep the
keep the
keep and every TV
that's been trying to me
to
in some school punk's plan to perpetuate retribution
perpetuate
even as the toxic smoke of our lesson in retribution
is hanging in the air
and there's ash on our
and ash in our hair
and there's a fine silt on mantle
from kitchen to Brooklyn
and the streets are of stories
twists and near misses
and soon every bar is crammed to the rafters
with of narrowly averted disasters
and the whiskey is
like before
as all the country
just shake their heads
and

so here's a toast to all the folks who in Palestine

El

a toast to the folks living on the pine ridge reservation
under the cold gaze of mt. Rushmore

here's a toast to all those nurses and
who daily provide women with a
who stand a threat the size of Oklahoma City
just to to a young woman's voice

a toast to all the folks on death row right now
awaiting the executioner's
who are shackled there with dread and can only into their heads
to find peace in the form of a

take away our playstations
and we are a third nation
under the thumb of some blood royal son
who the oval office and that phony election
I
it don't a weatherman
to look and see the weather
Jeb he'd deliver Florida, folks
and boy did he

and we hold truths to be self evident:
#1 W. Bush is not president
#2 is not a true democracy
#3 the media is not me
I am a poem heeding hyper-distillation
I've got no room for a lie so
I'm looking out over my whole family
and I'm my glass in a toast

here's to our last drink of fuels
let us vow to get off of sauce
away the swarms of commuter planes
and find train ticket we lost
once upon a time the line followed the river
and peeked into all the
and the laundry was
the graffiti was us
brick walls and bridges
we were rolling over
through
under
I dream of like Duke Ellington
in my own car
I dream of waiting on the blonde wooden benches
in a grand aglow with grace
and then out on the platform
and feeling the air on my

give back the its distant whistle
give the back its soul
the big oil companies the finger finally
and relearn how to
yes, the are all around us and a change is waiting there
so it's time to pick through the rubble, clean the
and the air
get our government to pull its big dick out of the
of someone else's
put it in its pants
and the hypocritical chants of
forever

'cause when one phone rang
in two and one
at ten nine
on one one
which is the we all called
when lone phone rang right off the wall
right off our and down the long hall
down the long
in a so tall
that the world turned
just to watch it

and while at it
the first time around?
the
the Ryder
the garage?
the princess that didn't even feel the
remember joking around in our on avenue D?

can you imagine how many paper cups would have to change their design
a fantastical reversal of the New York skyline?!

it was a joke, of
it was a
at the
and was just a few years ago
so let the show
that the FBI was all that case
the plot was obvious and in everybody's face
and that scene

the CIA
or is it
committing countless against humanity
with this of eventuality
as its
for abuse expensive abuse
and it didn't a clue
look, another to see through
way up
on the 104th

key
another
10%
90%
3000 some poems as people
on an almost too day
must be more than
in some passion play
so now it's job
and my job
to make it way
to make sure they didn't die in
sshhhhhh....
listen
hear the