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Friday, 23 December 2005 10:57 |
#43
bye-ya
for my daughter sunny on her 24th birthday
in the middle of my 50th year on this planet, each one of them spent in the great lake state of michigan, once & future o- jibway territory, & my only home
in this world to date in this 50th year it is time to leave behind the land of my humble ancestors & resettle in the southland of my sunniest dreams
where my daughter celia has made us a new place for our family, or a space for a new beginning at least in the veritable cradle of north american civilization as we are privileged to know it
so let me say my goodbyes to harrison & clare, ubly, kinde & port austin, owosso, wyandotte, berkley & flint, davison, albion, beloved detroit, the house of correction, ann arbor, jackson & marquette
& while my darling sunny & my dear mother elsie must be left behind, & all the family of my wife's left in detroit, we re moving out & heading south, to where the weather better suits our clothes
& the sunshine we seek may bring warmth to our bones & help mend our broken hearts, where the music that fills up the very air will heal our aches & pains & the ancestral spirits of the city we wish to adopt as our own
may lend us the balm of hope for our sorely battered temperament aww c mon, baby, it's time for us to go way down behind the sun to the land of new orleans time to leave all our winters behind & lift our spirits up to the southern sky
edward blackwell tribute riverboat hallelujah, tulane avenue new orleans may 4, 1991/
harmonie park, detroit may 25, 1991
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