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Loud

Loud. Music. By: Stephen dobyns. Created by: Jenny and Matt. My stepdaughter. and I. round. circle. and. round. You see. I like the music. Loud. the speakers. throbbing. Jam-packing the room with. Sound. Sound. Sound. Sound. Sound. Sound. Sound. Sound. Whether . BACH. OR.

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Loud

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  1. Loud Music By: Stephen dobyns Created by: Jenny and Matt

  2. Mystepdaughter andI round circle and round

  3. You see I like the music

  4. Loud

  5. the speakers throbbing

  6. Jam-packing the room with Sound Sound Sound Sound Sound Sound Sound Sound

  7. Whether BACH OR Rock and Roll

  8. The volume Cranked up so each bass note VOLUME

  9. is like a smacking the gut

  10. But my stepdaughter disagrees

  11. She is 4 and likes the music decorous

  12. Pitched below her own voice

  13. that tenuous projection of self.

  14. With music blasting She feels she disappears

  15. Which in fact I like is lost within the blare

  16. is lost within the blare

  17. is lost within the blare

  18. is lost within the blare

  19. Which in fact I like

  20. But at 4, what she wants is self location and uses her voice as a porpoise uses it’s sonar: to find herself in all this space

  21. If she had a sort of box With a peephole and looked inside

  22. What she’d like to see would be

  23. What she’d like to see would be herself standing there

  24. What she’d like to see would be herself standing there in her

  25. , jacket , yellow plastic lunch box Red pants

  26. a proper subject for serious study

  27. But me, if I raised the same to my

  28. I would wish the ocean on one of those days when windand thick cloud make the water gray and restless as if some creature brooded underneath,a rocky coast

  29. Where someone like me was walking and has gone. with a road along the shore

  30. Loudmusic does this, itwipes out the ego,

  31. Leaving turbulent water

  32. and winding road,a landscape stripped of people and language How clear The air becomes, How sharp Thecolors

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