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WHITE HORSE TAVERN

Happy hour: two drinks for one.
Over New Jersey you see the son
slowly rolling down in her bed,
giving the Hudson street e beautyful red.

In "White Horse Tavern"
all the tables are occupied
and around the bar a crowd,
the bable of voices is loud,
the sign in the corner:
"Occupancy by more than 125
persons is dangerous for your life
and unlawful", seems all right.

Is this the place, and was it here,
that Dylan Thomas drank his beer
and the hot stuff that made his grave
No sign, no Foto, not a word that gave
me the impression: he was a regular
in "White horse Tavern".

It´s years ago that I was travelling
on Dylan Thomas traces
I went to Wales to well known places
where Dylan Thomas came from
where Dylan Thomas was at home.

I drank a lot of beer at (in) Browns Hotel
I slept by someone who knew the poet well
I visited the smallish grave yard
to find his grave was really hard:
a wooden cross, some broken flowers.

And (right) now I´m standing here
in White Horse Tavern sipping beer
welsch Dylan should be near
but nothing, not a single word to hear
about him.

Going to the toilet on my way
across another room, what can I say
I don´t trust my eyes, of what I see
posters, paintings, Fotos, drawings,
articles of news papers and unexspectedly

a sign with golden letters says:
"Dylan Thomas 1914-1953.

The Dylan Thomas-Table.
Dedicated February 24. 1986.
At this table is, where Dylan spent
many happy hours
in good conversation and good brew."

On my way home I´m feeling fine.
The moon is shining bright.
I´m mumbling Dylan Thomas poem line by line:
"Do not go gently into this good night
rage, rage against the falling of the light."
and so on...

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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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