"It sometimes happens
that the woman you meet and fall in love with
is of that strange Transylvanian people
with an affinity for cats.
You take her to a restaurant, say, or a show,
on an ordinary date, being attracted
by the glitter in her slitty eyes and her catlike walk,
and afterwards of course you take her in your arms
and she turns into a black panther
and bites you to death.
Or perhaps you are saved in the nick of time
and she is tormented by the knowledge of her
tendency:
That she daren't hug a man
unless she wants to risk clawing him up."
-Edward Field, 1967 (Curse of The Cat Woman)
I love this poem. This poem gives a cinematic visualization to the reader. Its like being at the movies, except its u reading poetry.
- In fact, what is so cool and inspiring about this poem is that it brought to me the realization of how u can take one particular piece of art in one for, and make into another. This brings me joy because it helps me to see how infinate art is and it opens me up to the mountains and valleys of creativity that at one ppint I've only believed existed, but now I can actually see myself traveling the path.
I wont take up to much time vibing to heavily, publically about all the things i am experiencing, but i will say that being in a place spiritually, and allowing God to make me into who i am destined to be artistically, has allowed me to view things differently. I mean... putting real life into an artistic perspective has changed my artistry for the better! My Artistic Perspective is developing.
I would like to say for the record, that I am an Artist. I know that formally, people only know me as a drummer, and i want to apologize in advance for any frustration that that may cause any artist who calls them selves wanting to be creative with me, but wants me to only do as they say. - I apologize in advance for u feeling that i would only want to displease u for your own lack of discovery.
I want my legacy to be as - that artist, that musician who is a "House Within a House"- an artist creating forms of art that have a certain collective of charicteristics. Something of insight that is dramatized by showing the conflict between what is ordinarily seen, and ordinarily understood, also imcorporating my imagined future- my "secret place" of yearning for the things in my life that are real and not real, existing together. - i want my audiance to visualize this, whatever form of art it becomes manifested of, i wamt the audience to experience all of these things as real life.
