Poetry in Music

I found myself in the car alone for a few hours yesterday with my iPod. (Don't worry, I wasn't wearing headphones, I have the car adapter). Things really change when you don't have company to "share" the radio with.

I havn't bought any good music lately and what I have is just something to listen too, but back in the 1990's (how typically of a person getting older), Ani DiFranco's music really touched me. No one I knew listend to her or gave her much credit other than being a feminist, but I trully believe she's a poet as well as musician, she's a folk punk artist.

I didn't get the song to play, but the link below is a link to the song 32 Flavors. http://www.righteousbabe.com/store/asx/notaprettygirl/32flavors.asx

thirty two flavors

squint your eyes and look closer
i'm not between you and your ambition
i am a poster girl with no poster
i am thirty-two flavors and then some
and i'm beyond your peripheral vision
so you might want to turn your head
cause someday you're going to get hungry
and eat most of the words you just said

both my parents taught me about good will
and i have done well by their names
just the kindness i've lavished on strangers
is more than i can explain
still there's many who've turned out their porch lights
just so i would think they were not home
and hid in the dark of their windows
till i'd passed and left them alone
and god help you if you are an ugly girl
course too pretty is also your doom
cause everyone harbors a secret hatred
for the prettiest girl in the room
and god help you if you are a phoenix
and you dare to rise up from the ash
a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy
while you are just flying past

i'm not trying to give my life meaning
by demeaning you
and i would like to state for the record
i did everything that i could do
i'm not saying that i'm a saint
i just don't want to live that way
no, i will never be a saint
but i will always say

squint your eyes and look closer
i'm not between you and your ambition
i am a poster girl with no poster
i am thirty-two flavors and then some
and i'm beyond your peripheral vision
so you might want to turn your head
cause someday you might find you're starving
and eating all of the words you said