HEALTH - Before Tigers [mp3]
In the middle of the stream, in the rapids, on a log sits another universe. In this universe, spice and sand reign supreme without subtlety. On the banks of this stream sits still another universe and across the way on another log on another bank, another universe that is the same. In these mirrored universes, bombs drop like the upside down letter V, marking the places whereby sexual encounters will determine the fate of the Allied Powers. Further up stream, on a rock, another universe again, another again and again and again. The water sags on the rocks before rapidly flowing into the crevices of the centrally-located log. Time is frozen there, occasionally, for undress and with lavish care the clothing is re-adorned so as to give the impression of having never left. These universes all sit with legs dangling in the stream, the feet at the end cold from the water and bare for the travels. Up above through the tree limbs, the sun is meandering, a maundering steamy haze lifting in evaporative waves and it passes before the page, with each turn of the page and the light changes shape casting shadows on each next.
For each of these universes, time operates according to the rule of the page and in that stream, time passes according to the laws of the universe and after a different time, on a different page, in a different mind has passed its past, a rejoinder relieves the responsibilities inherent in literature. The universes step from their logs and their rocks and their banks to assail the foodstuff residing inside and they discuss the implications of such a peaceful passage of water through the graves, there are graves under the water and they agree that the earth is a grave.
HEALTH is a rhythm and blues band from Los Angeles. The featured song is from the album Get Color. Purchase the music at Amazon | Insound | eMusic.
