Neal Retke performs my poem "THE TURTLES - BUZZSAW"

Great news! Neal D Retke recorded his performance of my "THE TURTLES - BUZZSAW" poem. And what a piece that is - disorienting sound collage that circles around and slaps back.

The poem was inspired by the aforementioned piece by The Turtles. Here's how it happened: I've heard the song and thought "Well, I can do something like that".

However, the inspiration went awry very soon and I switched to Ukrainian to get it done. The resulting text was Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft kind of doo-wop. It had that verbose elegance you only get when hacking Ukrainian language.

The text was then backward translated into English and it became that Daliesque nightmare jagged jade jam. The text is forced into spontaneity - it expresses itself as it goes with no deliberation.