I just saw Ani in Montreal and her show .. as ALWAYS was AMAZING!!!! She did this poem again (which I think will be included on her new album of the same title ... released August 8th ...


manhattan is an island
like the women who are
surrounded by children in the car
surrounded by cars

or manhattan was a project
that projected the worst of mankind
first one and then the other
has made its mark on my mind

it's sixty years later near the hypo-center of the a-bomb
i'm standing in the middle of hiroshima
watching a twisted old eucalyptus tree wave
one of the very few lives that survived and lives on
remembering the day it was suddenly thousands of degrees
in the shade

and what all of nature gave birth to
terror took in a blinding raid
with the kind of pain
it would take cancer so many years just to say

oh to grow up gagged and blindfolded
a great big mans world in your little girls head
the voice of the great mother drowned out
in the constant honking haunting the accident scene up ahead
oh to grow up hypnotized and then try to shake yourself awake
cause you can sense what has been lost
cause you can sense what is at stake

yeah it took me a few years to catch on that those days i catch everyone's eye
correspond with those nights of the month when the moon gleans like an egg in the sky
and men are using a sense they don't even know they have just to watch me walk by
and me, i'm supposed to be sensible, leave my animal outside to cry
but when all of nature conspires to make me her glorious *****
it's cause in my body i hold the secret recipe of precisely what life is for

and the patriarchy that looks to shame me for it is the same one making war
and i've said too much already but i'll tell you something more
to split yourself in two is just the most radical thing you can do
so girl if that **** ain't up to you, then you simply are not free
cause from the sunlight on my hair to which eggs i grow to term
to the expression that i wear, all i really own is me

i mean to split yourself in two is just the most radical thing you can do
goddess forbid that little adam should grow so jealous of eve
and in the face of the great farce of the nuclear age
feminism ain't about equality, it's about reprieve

It would be my dream to see her & LMP on the same stage F-ing AMAZING DUO ....

wish she was coming closer around my area this summer...Ani is amazing. glad u had a good time

working for venues... having to deal with artists "demands" really shades your view about people... lol

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Originally posted by Nell:
working for venues... having to deal with artists "demands" really shades your view about people... lol

No doubt Nell ... sometimes everything we imagine an artist to be turns out to be totally false ... I have been dissapointed when meeting some of them myself ... ah well F UCK IT and KEEP ROCKIN'