I am proud to have participated in “We Believe You: Solidarity Concert for Lara" on September 6th (The picture to the right shows the great Gene Pritsker and I performing a piece he wrote and including my poem, WE HAVE).
It just caught my eye that the concert was written up in the Philadelphia Inquirer, and they were kind enough to quote some of my poem, which is printed in full below.
Click here to read the article, and learn more about this important show, Lara St. John, and the history of endemic abuse at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music.
WE HAVE
By Erik T. Johnson
You bare your words like empty masks.
Your touch takes every heart to task.
Yet we need nothing of you ask.
We will command. This is our day.
The power source that you dare claim
turns our world and floods your veins
is nothing more than the great shame
we will dispatch. This is our day.
You see dumb flesh where we scream soul.
Into our sights you boldly stroll.
You call for truce-- but don't you know?
We have won. You have no say.
It just caught my eye that the concert was written up in the Philadelphia Inquirer, and they were kind enough to quote some of my poem, which is printed in full below.
Click here to read the article, and learn more about this important show, Lara St. John, and the history of endemic abuse at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music.
WE HAVE
By Erik T. Johnson
You bare your words like empty masks.
Your touch takes every heart to task.
Yet we need nothing of you ask.
We will command. This is our day.
The power source that you dare claim
turns our world and floods your veins
is nothing more than the great shame
we will dispatch. This is our day.
You see dumb flesh where we scream soul.
Into our sights you boldly stroll.
You call for truce-- but don't you know?
We have won. You have no say.
