Munich, Winter 1973 (For Y.S) by James Baldwin
Munich, Winter 1973 (For Y.S) by James Baldwin

Munich, Winter 1973 (For Y.S)

James Baldwin

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Munich, Winter 1973 (For Y.S) by James Baldwin

Release Date
Tue Apr 01 2014
Performed by
James Baldwin

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In a strange house,
a strange bed
in a strange town,
a very strange me
is waiting for you.

Now
it is very early in the morning.
The silence is loud.
The baby is walking about
with his foaming bottle,
making strange sounds
and deciding, after all,
to be my friend.

You
arrive tonight.

How dull time is!
How empty—and yet,
since I am sitting here,
lying here,
walking up and down here,
waiting,
I see
that time's cruel ability
to make one wait
is time’s reality.

I see your hair
which I call red.
I lie here in this bed.

Someone teased me once,
a friend of ours—
saying that I saw your hair red
because I was not thinking
of the hair on your head.

Someone also told me,
a long time ago:
my father said to me,
It is a terrible thing,
son,
to fall into the hands of the living God.
Now,
I know what he was saying.
I could not have seen red
before finding myself
in this strange, this waiting bed.
Nor had my naked eye suggested
that colour was created
by the light falling, now,
on me,
in this strange bed,
waiting
where no one has ever rested!

The streets, I observe,
are wintry.
It feels like snow.
Starlings circle in the sky,
conspiring,
together, and alone,
unspeakable journeys
into and out of the light.

I know
I will see you tonight.
And snow
may fall
enough to freeze our tongues
and scald our eyes.
We may never be found again!

Just as the birds above our heads
circling
are singing,
knowing
that, in what lies before them,
the always unknown passage,
wind, water, air,
the failing light
the failing night
the blinding sun
they must get the journey done.
Listen.
They have wings and voices
are making choices
are using what they have.
They are aware
that, on long journeys,
each bears the other,
whirring,
stirring
love occuring
in the middle of the terrifying air.

Munich, Winter 1973 (For Y.S) Q&A

Who wrote Munich, Winter 1973 (For Y.S)'s ?

Munich, Winter 1973 (For Y.S) was written by James Baldwin.

When did James Baldwin release Munich, Winter 1973 (For Y.S)?

James Baldwin released Munich, Winter 1973 (For Y.S) on Tue Apr 01 2014.

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