Robert Rnnes

Dragons Teeth
for
Bassoon and Timpani

After 3 Poems by
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

(2007 Version)

Robert Rnnes
"Dragons teeth"
for
Bassoon and Timpani
After 3 poems by
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
1st movement:
DRAGON'S TEETH
A headless man was running
down the street
He was carrying his head
in his hands
A woman ran after him
She had his heart
in her hands
The bombs kept falling
sowing hate
And they kept running
down the streets
Not the same two people
but thousands of others & brothers
All running
from the bombs that kept falling
sowing pure hate
For every bomb that dropped
up sprang a thousand Bin Ladens
A thousand new terrorists
Like dragons teeth sown
From which soldiers sprang up
Each waving a different flag
As the smart bombs sowing hate
Kept falling and falling and falling
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Copyright 2003 City Lights Books
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Til Odd Brge Sagland

DRAGON'S TEETH
by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
for Bassoon and Timpani

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Bassoon

Robert Rnnes
2003/07

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Robert Rnnes "Dragons teeth"

for
Bassoon and Timpani

2:Seascape With Sun and Eagle

Freer
than most birds
an eagle flies up
over San Francisco
freer than most places
soars high up
floats and glides high up
in the still
open spaces
flown from the mountains
floated down
far over ocean
where the sunset has begun
a mirror of itself
He sails high over
turning and turning
where seaplanes might turn
where warplanes might burn
He wheels about burning
in the red sun
climbs and glides
and doubles back upon himself
now over ocean
now over land
high over pinwheels stuck in sand
where a rollercoaster used to stand
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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Robert Rnnes "Dragons teeth"

for
Bassoon and Timpani

3:Constantly Risking Absurdity

Constantly risking absurdity
and death
whenever he performs
above the heads
of his audience
the poet like an acrobat
climbs on rime
to a high wire of his own making
and balancing on eyebeams
above a sea of faces
paces his way
to the other side of the day
performing entrachats
and sleight-of-foot tricks
and other high theatrics
and all without mistaking
any thing
for what it may not be
For he's the super realist
who must perforce perceive
taut truth
before the taking of each stance or step
in his supposed advance
toward that still higher perch
where Beauty stands and waits
with gravity
to start her death-defying leap
And he
a little charleychaplin man
who may or may not catch
her fair eternal form
spreadeagled in the empty air.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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3.Constantly Risking Absurdity

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