Portland, OR | June 2, 2023

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Tomorrow night, Burnaby B.C Canada 🇨🇦
Can’t wait, The National 🎸

[gayanehpetrossian]

Please sing Vanderlyle in MSG in New York! The crowd is big and it would be an awesome sing-along experience

[faithandherghosts]

Is that the old amusement park or Mt. T. which surely - likely wisely, maybe sadly - closed the wide-open reservoir …the forest by the zoo, or elsewhere entirely?

Old amusements are pleasant enough, I suppose. However, when captive animals hear music played, i’d imagine the caged may want to move closer, curious and also cautious as all creatures tend to be to some degree…or further away, if the ratio of caution and curiosity forces a retreat from sound of a sound unknown that is less heard than known as tone. Dreadful to desire a movement toward or away and to not be able to move in either direction, or any direction beyond the parameters of walls that are not seen in the dark and make no sound, but are felt as the definitive edge of the place that one must decide to leave off from any thoughts of leaving, because better off leaving than staying is goes without saying for those who find - in all the measured paces to and fro along the wall, back and forth from all that can be found to know - that for reasons kept secret from the captive who listens close to what was never spoken aloud but that rises above and settles below and surrounds any song to answer all questions with the mute truth that leaving is easier said than done, to say the least.

If you ever play in the town I am in,
I will play trumpet for you…from a room across town,
or wherever I might be if I’m still here.
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