the inspiration behind

[HungryHippo]

I was thumbing through Frederico Garcia Lorca's "Poet in New York" book the other day and came across this poem;

 

Cow

 

To Luis Lacasa

 

The wounded cow lay down,

trees and streams climbing over its horns.

Its muzzle bled in the sky.

 

Its muzzle of bees

under the slow mustache of slobber.

A white cry brought the morning to its feet.

 

Cows, dead and alive,

blushing light or honey from the stables,

bellowed with half-closed eyes.

 

Tell the roots

and that child sharpening his knife:

now they can eat cow.

 

Above them, lights

and jugulars turn pale

Four cloven hoof tremble in the air.

 

Tell the moon

and the night of yellow rocks:

now the cow of ash has gone.

 

Now it has gone bellowing

through the wreckage of the rigid skies

where the drunks lunch on death

 

at first, I was like, "muzzle of bees! oh, snap!" but as I continued to read the poem, I was immediately reminded of Adult Head. it's like Lorca and Tweedy are on the same poetic level. also, the animal imagery in the poem def. reminds me of the imagery in A Ghost is Born. Jeff mentioned that he wrote many of that album's songs from the perspective of various animals. could this poem have inspired that idea? or maybe it was the inspiration behind Muzzle of Bees. or maybe I'm just a nut.

[choo-choo-charlie]

"...he takes all his words, from the books that you don't read anyway..."