Tag: music
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Who Are You?
This poem is about my father who passed away from pancreatic cancer in 2015. He died within 6 weeks of his diagnosis. After announcing his condition through email, he refused to see anyone for two whole weeks. He was a very independent and proud man who wanted to take care of business before letting people in. This poem captures the last moments I had with him and how I’ve tried to negotiate my relationship with him over the years, especially towards the end of his life, and even in the here and now.
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Tongue
In 2015 while I was raising $10,000 USD for a Kickstarter to create my debut album as a Singer-songwriter, a friend of mine asked if I could cover ”Tongue” by R.E.M. It was a reward for one of the higher pledging tiers. I gladly covered the song, never really wondering what it was about, thinking […]
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aahhhhhhhhhhhhh…….
You know that feeling you get when you finally finish something that had been hanging over your head for the longest time? Now you can finally sit back and relax, without that niggling sense of discomfort that eats away at your soul. Now you finally have license to chill. That is exactly how I am […]