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The Shades In America

from Of What I've Seen by Roger Aplon and Marcos Fernandes

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The Shades In America Are Down


Summer has taken its toll & one by one
couples abandon their rooms & move to the mountains or the sea or

wherever families gather for the last hot nights &
they sweat together under the weight of vagabonds & tramps & pick-

pockets & the larvae of the street who swarm
in their dreams like adolescents intent on shame & they welcome

the relief of a cool bath
to alter their thinking & only wish for salvation from debts & fear &

for simple pleasures: a place to hide
their memories of blood being spilled & the chill of the dead alone

on a carpet of tears & promise
to recollect forgotten promises & come home to the usual business:

bury their head in the sand &
lift their asses high enough to be noticed by those politicians who relish

a good fucking of the willingly ignorant & uninformed.


August 2003

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from Of What I've Seen, released August 26, 2023
Roger Aplon - spoken word
Marcos Fernandes - phonography

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Marcos Fernandes 横浜市, Japan

A native of Yokohama, Japan, Marcos Fernandes spent over three decades in California as performer, producer and curator. He has performed in the US, Canada, Mexico, Portugal, Hong Kong and Japan as a solo singer-songwriter, improviser, phonographer and percussionist/sound artist with various ensembles, dancers, poets and visual artists. ... more

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