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Kalamu ya Salaam's information blog

 

photo by Alex Lear

photo by Alex Lear

 

 

 

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when you said you loved me

 

what did you do with it

after you didn’t anymore

after the rain of love dried

after laughs

after baths

after toast & watermelon

after cups of water in the night

after morning smiles & phone calls

 

i know what i did with mine

i have a wall of pain painted

  nigerian indigo,

  created lyrics for a howlin’ wolf,

  fashioned a mask of brown sadness,

  & in a midnight hour

  buried love’s corpse quietly

  watching dry eyed

  as the heart-red crypt slipped

  peacefully deep into

  the sea of my experiences

  where the brackish-green, obsidian

  sealed sepulcher shall sleep

  untroubled by resurrection attempts

 

when you said you loved me

i never thought of it in the past tense

 

what did you do with it

after you didn’t anymore

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Kalamu ya Salaam – vocals

Stephan Richter – clarinet

Wolfi Schlick – reeds

Frank Bruckner – guitar

Mathis Mayer – cello

Georg Janker – bass

Michael Heilrath – bass

Roland HH Biswurm – drums

  

Recorded: June 14, 1998 – “ETA Theatre” Munich, Germany

  

—kalamu ya salaam