Turntable Blues

I haven’t played a record
In more years than I can say,
Yet still I mourn the record player
That we ditched today.

It sat there in the living room
Accumulating dust,
But since we’re spiffing up the place
I really must adjust.

I’ll box my records in a crate
And hide them out of sight.
I have no way to play them,
But to toss them’s just not right.

Though music’s always in my life,
I’ve said goodbye to vinyl
And now that my turntable’s gone,
That farewell feels more final.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2014



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Date: 9/7/2014 8:56:00 AM
It is the memories and the years that have gone that we mourn when throw something old away! Reading your beautifully expressed poem I felt in my heart the pain! Excellent work dear Ilene!
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Date: 9/6/2014 1:45:00 PM
It's unfair we give in to despair. And act like we really don't care. All that money we spent, somehow seemed heaven sent. When we listened to our hearts content. Boxing up and just putting away what we love only causes dismay. The sweet sounds that are shamelessly muted. This great loss truly can't be disputed. Time to get a new table that is digitally able. Then mp3, you and me or maybe a cd. We can listen till the cows come home. Moooo. :) Peace.
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Date: 9/5/2014 10:02:00 PM
Glad you liked my Shabbes poem. I went to Rommemu on 105th and Amsterdam and even got up and danced during services. My late father was an excellent musician and one of my nephews who plays in a band called "The Mad Doctors" has a record player and uses vinyl. My father was a composer who wrote art - songs and h set a number of my poems to music and I used to sing them. Music has charms - so does poetry! B'Shlalom Matthew Anish
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