EMA closes out “Exile in the Outer Ring” with this spoken word poem.
This was part of a longer spoken word improvisation that was made after the Charleston church shooting in 2015. Stephanie McCrummen wrote an amazing story for the Washington Post about the last people the shooter stayed with calle...
There was once a light on a place that I wanted to keep dark, and so I ran away to the darkest place that I could find: a basement in the outer ring
It was an interior that was familiar to me, the smell, the blinds, sometimes sunlight coming in, and sometimes street lamps, brighter now than they used to be, casting lines on beige carpeting
There is a lamp, some light from the screen, but at night sometimes it seems that no matter how bright it gets, there's still darkness in the corners of the room and it's hard to say where the darkness begins
It seems to be closing in from around the edges. But it's possible that it's coming from inside you
Where the Darkness Began was written by EMA (Pop).
Where the Darkness Began was produced by EMA (Pop).
EMA (Pop) released Where the Darkness Began on Fri Aug 25 2017.