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Steely
Dan
At fourteen, George Washington is already in the wilderness
surveying the western districts for settlement,
but I'm still listening to Steely Dan,
contemplating virtuosity. How good is good
enough? How much polish is too much, how much
silver-toned studio gloss before the baby goes blind,
how much honey, and of what bloom—
Can't
Buy A Thrill—that
nectar, that attar—or Aja
like some kind of holy cloud descending,
music in the
blur-zone, V-necked leather with glissando,
lush and lovely L.A. decadence done late-70s style,
skate the magic vibe and trill of marimba rhythms,
zither and shimmer, shimmy and shake,
ride the cocaine snake to the neon North Hollywood
studio of chromium acoustics or sonic acrostics,
little night flower of my heart gone to seed in the shade
of such arbors of blossoming oleander. Shh,
the sheaf of silent ears falls slyly. Hush, sugar. Hush.
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Campbell
McGrath is the author of five books and has a sixth, PAX
ATOMICA, forthcoming from Ecco/HarperCollins in December. His
awards include the Kingsley Tufts Prize, and fellowships from the
Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundation. He teaches in the Creative
Writing Program at Florida International University, and lives
with his family in Miami Beach.
~Campbell talks with
Jenni Russell about living in Miami and more~
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