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    transfix+transform+transfuse+transgress+transcience+transitive+
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RERIFFS

Three Poems by Eric Satie and Martin Spinelli

[SPIN04.01]


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.................Veritable False Preludes (for a dog).............. 

                                Severe Reprimand


                                                   fadb fadb
give away
                                                   B B B B
                                                   G G G G
                                                     ^a #c f b
like the same
                                                     A A
                                                     F F
                                               ^a #c f b
convince
                                                    A A
                                                    F F
imbibe
                                              G A D ^d






..............Prelude of the Heroic Door in the Sky...............

                         Without Numbers

                                                           ^e
                                                       c   ^b    a
                                                 _ _ f d  g f d ^b
Calm and deeply soft.
                                                  D D ^G A  B
                                                  C B  B C ^G
e
F e
                           superstitiously
f D
e e
                                                   G  F ^E    a
                                                   D ^E ^b
                                                  ^f  e ^g _ #C
with reference

                                         D   E  
                                         d  #G  
                                         b   b   g g
                                        ^g _ a _ E E
very sincerely silienced.
                                  a a
                                  d d
                                         d g b g
                                        #f d e d
In a timid step
                                         e e d d 
                                         a a a a
                             ^e ^f
               ^f   ^b  a ^f  g  g     c
                e _ ^E #c  e  E ^d _ _ e
avoid any exaltation of sacrilige
                A  ^f   A  ^f     D
                G  ^a   G  ^a     F
              _ C   d _ C   d
without pride
               _ a c  #f c
                 f     b
                       d
                            #c a b #f
                             g     #a
obligingly
                             E #G
                               #C






....................Ahead of the Latest Thoughts..................

                              Idyle


                                       fgad fgad fgad fgad fgad
The bottom is very friendly, isn't it true?
                                       f#gad fgad fgad fgad gg#g
slowly ambivilent.


                          Dawn Serande

          
                          A  #F   A                              
                         #F   D  #F
                          D _ B _ D
without light
                          d  bb  d
                                        #F      A    A
                                         D     #F   #F
                                         B _ _  D _  D
Linger, but decently.
                                                #C  #C
                                             #D.#A. #A. _
                                                           a a
                                                  ^b^b     f f
                                           ggga bb d d _ _ d d
Someone is at the door.
                                           a g   a g   a g   A   A
                                           g d   g d   g d  #F  #F          
                             _     _     _ d.d. _ D  D
put your hand in your pocket
                                           b. b. b.  b. b. b.

and pretend.
                                     g.  c.
                                     b.  a.




RIF/T: An Electronic Space for Poetry, Prose, and Poetics
Editors: Kenneth Sherwood and Loss Pequeño Glazier
ISSN#: 1070-0072
Version 4.1 Spring 1995


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