HeyJaredFor What Comes Next
Writing and music from within this fractured time—and planting a few seeds for what comes next.
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If I Had A Hammer (opens the original)
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I.When Irving Berlin wrote “God Bless America,” … I wish he had put “bless” into the past tense (“blessed”) and left it right there. So as not to anger the gods through overreach.By the time Berlin was writing, America/The United States had already garnered an embarrassment of blessings just by geography alone. The United States was buffered by two oceans—making it almost impossible to invade. Right down the middle of the country was a navigable river, the Mississippi, that facilitated trade. We
Here she is: Myth America (opens the original)
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I.It’s a blindingly sunny, scorchingly hot early July day in 1962 or 1963 … … and I’m standing on a curb, under a shade oak, just outside the Cpl. James C. Shea American Legion Post on Hyde Park Avenue in Roslindale, Massachusetts.It’s the Fourth of July.I hear the parade before I see it. The marching band has turned the corner from Canterbury Street to Hyde Park Avenue. It’s about a half a mile away and, in the heat, the band members look like a mirage, shimmering and undulating as their instru
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