"Common Disaster"
What really happened?
Greetings Hubsters! Still up for a challenge? If so, then here it goes: Using the poem below, describe what REALLY happened for somebody knows somebody who REALLY knows what REALLY happened on that boat and how that girl made it home.
Small towns
Flying under the radar
Believing all along
It happens…
But not to them
No winners. No losers.
Just commoners with
Cameras on all their phones
Showing and telling grapevines
Red, White, and Dandelion
Grapes sour
Tales ferment
No time at all:
you might as well
stand on the dock
holding the fish
you just caught
wearing a Gilligan hat
holding a Budweiser
Air-brushed alibi
For all the world to see
IT had to be real
You sent IT from your phone.
Nothing to worry about
That girl is gone
You couldn’t just let her leave
After what happened
On your boat
Now that girl
Getting all kinds of traffic
Red-lighted and stopped
In middle of town
Nothing like a Merlot
To get folks talking
Eventually …
Everybody knows
Somebody who knows
What really happened
The night before
You stood on the dock
Wearing your Gilligan hat
Because that girl
Didn’t drown
She made it home
And so did her phone
Daddy is not going to look away
Somebody has bruised
His daughter
Somebody is going to pay
Media with monikers
Hang out with the locals
Buying one round after another
Because they know somebody
knows somebody
who knows what really happened
the night
that girl
did not die
somehow made it home
"Common Disaster" by Cowboy Junkies
To learn more about Cowboy Junkies, Check out this update from the February 2015 newsletter.
February 2015
Hi Everyone,
This months Under Cover offering, our free monthly download series, is now available through our Facebook page. Click on the link and follow the prompts, it's pretty straightforward, but if you have any problem getting the music you can contact us at social@latentrecordings.com and we'll guide you through the process. This month we are offering Cowboy Junkies version of Townes Van Zandt's Lungs and Skydiggers version of Mickey Newbury's classic Why You Been Gone So Long; two songs by two of the great singer-songwriters of the 1970s.
We have a fairly quiet month ahead....February is the time to hibernate up here in the North...but we have a couple of things going on....Margo and Mike will be participating in a truly unique salute to the music of Lou Reed at the end of the month. They will be performing Coney Island Baby and The Kids with the Art Of Time Ensemble on February 27th and 28th at the Enwave Theater in Toronto. For more information about the performance please check out the Art Of Time website. It should be an amazing night of music so if you are local please check it out.
We had a reprieve from the cold weather last weekend when we flew down to LA to help our good friend Enrique Martinez Celaya open up his new studio. It was great to see Enrique and to spend some time surrounded by some of his new work.
The new LeE HaRVEY OsMOND album (Beautiful Scars) has been mastered and delivered. We have a release date of April 7th and we'll be telling you a lot more about it in the days and months to come. You can follow the many adventures of Lee through his facebook page.
We'll be back in touch next month...stay safe, stay warm (if you are a Northerner)...bye for now.
All the best,
Margo, Mike, Pete and Al
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