Boom! Goes The Drum - December 2, 2013

The love of friends gathered in cacophony

Nonsensical, sensual, and so fucking endearing you wonder why the hell you spent

TWELVE YEARS

Being someone else

When it is profoundly good to be about this and of this and doing this

Musicians, gay, riotous, being

Inspiring awe even in those who feel the music of their own hearts

Beating in thousands of bodies across America

Who can’t be here but are

Represented: lesbian, gay, band, music, friend, love

Together in a circle, to praise, to worship

To sound a barbaric yawp lasting to the end of our days.

Our melodies issue in quavers and halves and, when confident, wholes.

The continuo sustains, quietly authoritative.

The heart we create is a magnificent organ,

Each beat full of sound and blood and substance,

Filling nature’s cathedral.