Old Lyrics and Tune
The water level in the Salinas is half what it was the last time Jonah and I went to the river. Footprints of Aziz are everywhere, inch-long glass transparent fish school in the warm shoals, and the tracks of drunks, snails perhaps, or clams I've never known, meander across the sand, leaving furrows.
He found a deeper spot and swam while I stood knee deep in the warmer current and read the 3rd act of Moliere's l'école des femmes.
The distance from 1662 to the present is absurdly small.
Contempler la bassesse où vous avez été,
Et dans le même temps admirer ma bonté,
Qui de ce vil état de pauvre villageoise
Vous fait monter au rang d'honorable bourgeoise
Et jouir de la couche et des embrassements
D'un homme qui fuyait tous ces engagements
As you read that you should be reflecting on Obama's choice of words, his tone, his view of his present station in life and those poor Pennsyltucky villagers he graces with his attention.
Then there's this:
Votre sexe n'est là que pour la dépendance:
Du côté de la barbe est la toute-puissance.
Bien qu'on soit deux moitiés de la société,
Ces deux moitiés pourtant n'ont point d'égalité:
L'une est moitié suprême et l'autre subalterne;
L'une en tout est soumise à l'autre qui gouverne;
Its good that Sir Elton John is using his station in life and letters to say "misogyny". Pity there aren't any straight guys with the same chops saying what's wicked obvious.
