An Outcast of the Wolf Island: The Silent Opera

The piece Tim Buckley dreamed of

with brand new lines,

courtesy of The Guardian,
The Nation
and other ZM outlets!

With special thanks to

Michael D. Weiss
(check his "Putin's mind"
in Golden Eggs section on the 
right-side
column!)

And a couple of false starts
as bonus material.

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A Message from the Grave

"Sit tight, and keep your knees together. You'll be just fine."

That's what I tell the kids at the bathroom of the day care center

where I work at. I've said so many times, in fact, I've started believing

in it myself.

Nothing, of course, could be further away from the truth.

I found the three volumes of history of Nokia -

the corporation, not the town -

at the garbage shed in Grbavica, Helsinki,

or Kannelmäki, as it was known in the past, yesterday.

This is the third video I've used the book collection in.

It's the story of Finland in 6 minutes,

accompanied by the late, GREAT

Tim Buckley.

Something tells me

the books are outdated - or else, why would

someone have left them in the shed?

What spoke the strongest of the

sadly and abrubtly ended life

of the three-book-

package was, however,

the fact that the volumes,

two out of three at least,

were written in Finnish.

Well, hello, beautiful!

Or so the titles suggested, anyway,

"Sturm und Drang,"

"Fuusio" and

"Globalisaatio,"

the last being the most beautiful word

in our language, if you

asked the opinion of

former President of the country,

Mrs Halonen.

But nobody does. Her days are gone,

and so are ours, and it's for the best.

No one writes a company's history -

or any history, I presume -

in their native tongue any more.

Not much else, either. My dabbling

of late in the field of Literature

is just a tiny drop of proof

in the vast, not-so-

Pacific Ocean.

Once a year just isn't enough.

And Lily knows it. And Tim knew it, too.

One final laugh from the Master:

Wikipedia informed me moments ago that,

'The "Carnival Song" which appears here

is not the song of the same name from Goodbye and Hello,

but an entirely different composition.'

That figures. He was a crazy son of a bitch and he was my brother. 

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