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FAR ROCKAWAY
For once I liked to go by subway
right to the end of the line.
Destination Far Rockaway seemed fine.

It took me cross the Jamaica Bay.
From JFK airport a jumbo jet startet to fly
like a Dolphin out of the ocean into the blue sky.

A fisherman in a (run down) shabby little boat
seems to sleep, holding on to his fishing rod,
dreaming of some big fish in the muddy water.

In my compartement I´m now complitely alone.
Very strange: they passengers all seem to be gone.
Next station. The subway stops. I jump out.

There wasn´t a soul in sight. I turned around
looking for the strand and in the distance I found
it and behind it the never ending see.

Across some fields of rambling weeds I stumbled forward
to the see. But suddenly with a pounding heart
I saw three man coming toward me.

The stopped right in front of me.
African Americans and stoned I could see.
My heart was pounding frantically.

Look at him! A paleface! Maybe an irish bastard.
Should we pull of his throusers? They laughed hard.
No. Let him go. Its just a bum.

Still laughing the walked away.
I stood there. I could nothing do but to stay
there like a piece of dead wood.

For once I liked to go by subway
right to the end of the line.
Destination Far Rockaway seemed fine.

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from Silvertowers II, released March 25, 2024

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Christof Thewes Schiffweiler, Germany

www.christofthewes.de

arbeitet als Posaunist, Komponist+Arrangeur .
leitet verschiedene Ensembles und Musikprojekte von Solo bis Big Band, die sich zwischen modernem Jazz, freier Improvisation und Neuer Musik bis hin zu experimenteller Rock, Funk und Popmusik bewegen. ... more

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