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White Birch Blues
Jamika Ajalon, 2012

play song

Living room carpeted
with fragile eggshells

I took sanctuary under
white birch branch

pointed toward my wishing star
and railroad runway

leaves vibrating code
knew of things untold.

My midwestern white birch
bears memory rings
genetic encodings of
past and future things:

postcard executions
digitized and viral
traded along virtual
streams
next best thing
since the zombie scene

fiber time-firing squads
electronic electrocutions
beheadings, stonings…

and the postcard series
most sought
otherwise known as
the ‘organic crop’

leftover blues from the
days of Billie top-notch
critics praise its sanguine beauty
its brutal simplicity ­— its rustic poetry
as if tree, not noose
was framing the story.

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Jamika Ajalon is a poet, musician and filmmaker. She lives and works internationally.

Edited by Sabine Rohlf & Jo Schmeiser

The song White Birch Blues is work in process and was published here: http://soundcloud.com/jamajalo...

This text was published on November 12, 2012, in the Berlin music magazine “Missy”.