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Soothsayer Said

from Attic & Cellar by aeroplane, 1929

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Soothsayer Said

A greyhaired man
wincing down the dirty sidewalk
into the teeth of the wind, muttering glossolalia

at the ragged newspapers blown by.
“You will make your mistakes,” he cried from the
washedout place behind his blind seer’s eyes.
“Yes, the Mark of Cain is still tucked away inside...”

(You can’t go home if you want to;
you’re too choked to say when you first knew.)

So the soothsayer said
and I gripped your hand in the phonetic torrent,
all damp and trembling—a painful prophecy, a poisonous portent:

“...like a pigeon who, hovering and shuffling wild
under tarpaulin like a deck of cards, grew proud
and thought he was a hummingbird, gone haught,
and believed he could escape the curse of his kind.”

Well, it was just as he said. The villagers
were coming out with pitchforks and torches,
resolved to burn a witch—hissing, hungry, for an execution.

“The flames will dance and lick our feet and thighs.
It will hurt at first but will pass like nightmare nights.”

“No, we’ll run again from these rituals and rites.
Like two brokedown birds we will make our frenzied flight.”

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Credit

Frederick Chu – cello
Frédérique Gnaman – violin
Jacob Eli Goldman – bass guitar, rhodes
Trevor Johnson – voice, radio
Alex Mazzaferro – voice, piano, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, tambourine
Wil Mulhern – drums

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from Attic & Cellar, released July 1, 2010

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aeroplane, 1929 Springfield, Massachusetts

aeroplane, 1929 was a band from New England. Between 2005 & 2010, they released two albums & two EP's on Topshelf Records. The band consisted of Alex Mazzaferro (vocals/guitar/keys/lyrics), Jacob Goldman (bass/keys/recording/arrangements), Noah Goldman (guitar/pedal steel/keys), & Wil Mulhern (drums), plus friends like Julian Veronesi, Chad Jewett, Dave Van Witt, Alex Syner, & Peter Federman. ... more

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