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The Privilege Of The Walls

from Homage To Catalonia by Jim Powell

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Exhausted silent stories line these brooding walls;
Climbing through the rubble, a lonesome soldier calls
Above the din of traffic, below the sights of guns
That aim at all the passing reasons dying in the sun.

Guard us all from reason that reasons this is right
Who would defend privilege when privilege defends might

The walls upon foundations that slowly sink with time;
A web of cracks and broken bones that slow and steady climb
To top the twisting blackness that spirals down below -
Where no one walks, no one speaks, and no one ever goes.

Left to one’s devices, escape would seem the best;
But no one has the energy when no one tries to rest
Before the bones return into the bodies they employ
To carry them away from the walls they would destroy.

A fortress full of emptiness will crumble from within;
The desert winds will scatter sand and muffle cries. The din
Of traffic tearing blindly at the surface of the road
That leads an endless circle ‘round these walls that will implode.

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from Homage To Catalonia, released November 3, 2023

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Jim Powell Boulder Creek, California

I am a songwriter & guitarist working out of my home studio in beautiful Boulder Creek, California. My arrangements use a mix of voice, acoustic and electric guitars, bass and drums, along with the occasional mandolin, bouzouki, or keyboard part.

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