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CalArts Eye, May Edition

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Photo credit: Patrick Behnke<br />

JONI<br />

Funny that Joni Mitchell’s California sits<br />

in Paris, France. James walks towards me.<br />

He grabs me & he pulls me from my seat.<br />

I’m not Joni, I’m with her. A song & a poem<br />

sit side by side in a park in Paris, France.<br />

The only thing she does is sing<br />

on & on about California & what she will do.<br />

A poem won’t sit and it moves back to James<br />

in New York, who won’t let it sit. He’s reading<br />

the news and it sure looks bad. The news,<br />

it’s all here too. Joni knows it, but that’s all.<br />

She just sings. She’d kiss the sunset pig,<br />

but she’s sitting in a park in Paris, France.<br />

Meanwhile, the poem has moved on.<br />

I’m living with James Chance in New York<br />

now. Things are pretty good. I think about Joni<br />

from time to time & when I do, she’s still<br />

sitting, singing about California. She dreams<br />

about it too, I imagine. I wanna see the folks<br />

I dig. Joni, you sound too chipper to know<br />

that the news looks bad. My apologies<br />

if I sound a little droll, I can’t handle leaps<br />

as well as you do, sitting in Paris, France,<br />

all the while placing the song in California.<br />

Did it help you get there? I’m just stuck,<br />

waiting for someone to force me out<br />

of my seat. It sure looks bad. It sure does.<br />

THE CALARTS EYE

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