john
lennon
your
art:
a voice -
you lived
but your
life
was the minor
point
the art -
it LIVES!
from
your final
departure.
ii.
of course
we all
rationalize
that the music
lives on
in grooves of vinyl
in the airwaves
& in our collective
memory -
but in fact
the music DID
die:
that wisdom
FOR humanity
&
AGAINST war:
never again to be
poised & positioned
against
those
perennial /
millennial
bastards.
iii.
i've come to
understand it like
this:
you take a human being
give him a guitar &
a piano
then give him the
impossible task to
transcend the mundane &
match
world governments
wit for wit
all the while creating
joy for
an entire planet's
populace -
call this person john
family name: lennon
give him life
then let History
absorb him
into its raptuous
feathers
of faith.