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