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Mass
by Kevyn Clark
Mozart
Requiem Mass, how appropriate at 3 am during another fit of drinking and drugs. Not that death would accomplish anything. It’s just a whim. Still, appropriate.
I saw the movie
Amadeus several times. I was moved. Was he really writing his own mass? Again, how appropriate. A whim, no, perhaps passion.
My brother
killed himself without writing a mass. My sister tried and failed. Not enough drinking I guess. No requiem mass for her.
3:20 am
and the music fills my head. The cadence, the measures, the familiar notes pounding on my temples let me in. this is for you.
Oh God,
the sweet harmony dressed in alcohol and opiates strumming through these tired and aching veins like weary streets, closed, longing for detour. Over and over the intricate patterns play, my hands sway conducting, head bowed I write my own mass because I cannot stop trying to be appropriate amen.
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