Beautiful Machine

[rowens]

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More old stuff that the people threw away. But still, I can listen and write. If anybody gets bored enough, there's the audio for now.

[billy]

your voice suits the poem...in a good way. it gives it more than just an added depths. the tone of it feels in some way to help with the structure. is that the pic a van gough snippet?

[rowens]

Yes. And I like fields and rural areas, and the way he spent so much of his time out in the sun painting. I'm trying to remember how I had this looking on the page. It's from 2004, I remember because I'd just got kicked out of Boston.

[billy]

i though his sunflower too crude but love many of his works. it was a nice choice.

[rowens]

Well I do like crude things. Some people, I guess, say that he was no better than a child scribbling in a lot of his paintings. But I know from being prone to similar mystic states that he talked about in his letters, being out in the open fields and in the woods, especially in spring, can send you off into frenzies. I think he had a lot of control considering what I know of those intense spinning sensations. I think he captured it well. In some of the funny farms I've been to, they have his work on the walls, I guess so the patients won't feel so bad about themselves. There's a real spirit that comes through in the paintings. A lot of practice and skill too, but that's obvious. But I think it's the spirit that attracts most people to it.