hymn to potency

I suppose this is a hymn to potency
a small river flowing in my blood
flowing against the flood.

What more can a poor boy say?
What more can a man?
What more can a woman?
What more can a man or a woman say
now that so much seems broken
and the century is adrift.

Let's look, let's look, let's look.

The post comes so slowly here
I got your letter only yesterday
the one you wrote me 1000 years ago
let's look, let's take a look
I open the envelope like the skin of a tree
and here I sing what you wrote to me
you said...

"I suppose this is a hymn to potency
a small river flowing in my blood
flowing aginst the flood.

What more can a poor girl say?
What more can a woman?
What more can a man?
What more can a man or a woman say
now that so much seems broken
and the century is adrift,

Let's look, let's look, let's look"

© Julyen Hamilton '93

Song written for the performance CORTEX
with Carme Renalias in 1993.