From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2013 #902 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Unsubscribe:mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe Website:http://jonimitchell.com JMDL Digest Thursday, June 27 2013 Volume 2013 : Number 902 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: This Rain, This Rain [Jamie Zubairi Home ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 01:54:32 +0100 From: Jamie Zubairi Home Subject: Re: This Rain, This Rain Listening to the first night (Catherine's video) and a clearer audio from the second night I'd like to suggest an amendment to Vincenzo's good work. There are a few small word differences between the two nights. On the first night she omits 'Soulless' from 'soulless trees' but both nights I think she says 'New York' and not 'in Europe'. I think it makes more sense that it's New York, with its skyscrapers. I've never seen Europe (and I guess I mean 'the Continent' ;-) as having many skyscrapers, certainly not significantly during much of Emily Carr's lifetime. Much changed now though. Is this the wettest place on earth? My little fire is sputtering. Oh, now my hot water bottle's gone and burst, And I'm mean mad And I'm muttering Soggy biscuits! Balky sheets! The bucket brimming where the canvas leaks. I smack my dogs for muddy feet. Oh, this rain, this rain will not retreat. That painting I made yesterday - Who would want to look at it? It's just a mess! Greens and greys. I threw a stupid book at it. I'd hoped to catch tree-souls in paint. But hope! That's for idiots And saints. My trees Are incomplete. Oh, this rain, this rain will not retreat I wish I had a real good pal, Someone I could stand to listen to. I don't care - guy, gal, Just someone who could stand me too. If I was nicer, less astute, Less compelled to spew the truth... The truth is seldom soft and sweet, And this rain, this rain, Will not retreat, All big cities make me sick, Except New York, I don't know why. Big buildings stretching up brick by brick. Like my cedar groves, they scrape that sky. It doesn't rain like this back there. Oh, it rains enough, just enough to wash the air and sweep the litter off the street. But THIS rain, Oh, This rain will not be beat I wrote this poem for Emily Carr, Though she's been dead for quite some time. Most of these words are hers, But some are mine. I made them rhyme. This rain, This rain, Oh, this rain Jamie Zubairi Actor, Voiceover, Painter, Photographer. Acting Agent: Pelham Associates 01273 323 010 SpotLight Showreel Unbroken Line Upcoming Appearances: *Balinese Dance Performance*, June 13th, City University, Angel *Caged Bird Sing*s July 1st LOST Theatre, Stockwell. Recent work: *Tino Sehgal Unilever Commission "These Associations" *Turbine Hall, Tate Modern *Unbroken Line*' OvalHouse, supported by public funding from the Arts Council of England. ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2013 #902 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------