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Distant: Ethan Ehlers

01. Writer

Ethan Ehlers


02. Theme

Distant


03. MUSIC INSPIRATION

Dexter Gordon: 
Affair in Havana


04. WRITING

It’s a Cold Island

The 50s darts around like a thief's
cover blown at the premier’s banquet.
Clanging and sputtering in the sparsely
lit streets, in desperate need of cobbles.
And so on it goes crashing into
decades to and fro totaled beyond
recognition save its charms. 

The 60s far out,
push it to action

The 70s smoke,
lamely in its wake 

The 80s scorn,
the lemon to scrap 

The 90s admire,
the rust 

And we take it all in like water takes
salt into its body and throw it at the land.
Ah to be an island once it’s turned to sand.
There we still stand in Cuba, the Bahamas,
Jamaica, Aruba and most of all Haiti
Cursing the America’s for their fucking
romance.   

What do they Know?