Yahia Lababidi is this amazing poet that I have the great pleasure to know, and so we came up with the great idea to do a music collaboration. I found one of his poems, "Embracing, We Let Go," in his collection "Barely There" and worked out a few demos. This is what I settled upon, and I pray it does justice to this artist's excellent words.

Here's a bio about Yahia from Poemhunter.com:

"Yahia Lababidi (born 1973) is an aphorist and Pushcart-nominated poet with work appearing in such publications as World Literature Today, Cimarron Review, AGNI, Hotel Amerika, Rain Taxi and Philosophy Now. His first book, Signposts to Elsewhere (Jane Street Press) was selected as a Book of the Year, 2008, by The Independent (UK). Meantime, his latest works are, "Trial by Ink: From Nietzsche to Belly Dancing" a collection of literary and cultural essays, as well as "Fever Dreams" a poetry collection from Crisis Chronicles Press. To date, Lababidi’s writing has been translated into Arabic, Slovak, Italian, Dutch, Swedish and Turkish.

Otherwise, his work appears in several anthologies, including: Geary’s Guide to the World's Great Aphorists as well as the best-selling US college textbook, Literature: an Introduction to Reading and Writing (10th edition). Lababidi was chosen as a Juror for the 2012 Neustadt Prize (a biannual award widely considered the most prestigious international literary prize after the Nobel Prize in Literature)."

And y'all know me. :P

This track was recorded on a TASCAM 8-track, in my room. You're hearing violin, ukulele, a guitar pretending to be a bass, a guitar pretending to be an electric guitar, a djembe, and a can of bb's.

Oh yeah, and me, like, reading on beat.