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Song of Death (featuring Will Oldham & Jodie Jean Marston)

from Last Poems by Bob Arellano

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words by D.H. Lawrence

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Sing the song of death, O sing it!
for without the song of death, the song of life
becomes pointless and silly.

Sing then the song of death, and the longest journey
and what the soul takes with him, and what he leaves behind,
and how he enters fold after fold of deepening darkness
for the cosmos even in death is like a dark whorled shell
whose whorls fold round to the core of soundless silence and pivotal oblivion
where the soul comes at last, and has utter peace.

Sing then the core of dark and absolute
oblivion where the soul at last is lost
in utter peace.
Sing the song of death, O sing it!

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from Last Poems, released February 5, 2021

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Bob Arellano Talent, Oregon

90's-band survivor. Lost album FISH+CRABS with Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & the Shelbyville gang available 1st time in >20 years on candy-apple red vinyl & digital; HAVANA CLUB with Jasper Speicher downloadable or just $1 more for factory-pressed rum-label CD; MR. LOVABLE fifteen never-heard solo tracks & LAST POEMS with Bonnie Billy & Jodie Jean Marston now streaming. Follow for blue-moon news blasts! ... more

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