They answer like dead men
A sound silent as a thought
Rhapsody of the Deep begs for redemption,
Our mirrored voices too dark to know
Improvised songs from thermal vents
Frequencies whales only hear
Did I evolve from lethal smiles?
Dive for this poison, dive for this hunger
Only to modulate to that minor key
Cecilia’s Café D
Where wrapped in lexicons of blues and saints
Arpeggiated blessings sound
Refracted images of flotsam refrains
Repeating hymns of reanimation
Scrimshaw chorus plays with light
Jaws of life bring joy
Epic lines and tragic flaws
fluted on the waves
Whose questions quiet cetaceous storms
Jubilation and laughter well from the sea
Jilly's 
Google of Cecelia Cafe returns a burrito shop in New Mexico. I can deal with that, but I thought I’d check. (BTW, you can drop the punctuation on my first couplet…)
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LOL! Cecilia, as in Patron Saint. D Minor is the key of the earth – whales, wolves, eagles all sing in that key…
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Sort of like a burrito?
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Exactly like a burrito!
(You know Cecilia – one-time lover of Paul Simon.)
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OK, poison jawed whale song sainted burrito lovers. On it.
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Perfect!
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🤤🤤🤤
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Where wrapped in lexicons of blues and saints
Appegiated blessings sound
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Arpegiated?
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https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/arpeggiate
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Yeah – you just left the ‘r’ out of it.
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Crapstack.
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Well said! Red pen put to use – all fixed 🙂
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Music Theory here.
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Yes, an appegiation could be an appendage, a phone app, or an abomination, or all three.
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Wha? Okay, I’m still stuck on a whale doing an arpeggio. Is that in voice or at the keyboard?
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Teeth are ivory.
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and for the ebony?
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And besides, these seem to be really cool whales. Versatile.
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It gives me this image of an Orca sitting at the piano singing “Feeling!” Very versatile.
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I think I was mostly just throwing in with the saint, and some hope of return to the beginning at some point. Don’t know how to keep the whales afloat.
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Pun City & Hotel California. Same exit price.
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Refracted images of flotsam refrains
Repeating hymns of reanimation
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Cool. Working on it.
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Scrimshaw chorus plays with light
Jaws of life bring joy
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Excellent! The ivory shows up and an interesting phrase twist.
Takes us to the final two, I believe. Tomorrow.
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My last:
Epic lines and tragic flaws
fluted on the waves
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Ooooh!
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I’m so glad you feel that way! LOL!
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Whose questions quiet cetaceous storms
Jubilation and laughter welling up from the sea
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Going with *well
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*well, not welling I think
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well, let me think about this…
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Done! This is an interesting one, in the final analysis. Should remame it Happy Whales.
So… swans & whales & I’m wondering where you’ll go next.
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Yes. I like it a lot now. I was really lost in it, but now it seems fine.
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Really? I was never lost *cough* – not once. LOL!
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Should rename it Paul Simon’s Cecelia and the Singing Burrito Whale Family
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Done! no… wait… in the spirit of late October, the idea of burritos that sing is a bit scary.
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Terrifying. Especially singing whale burritos.
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But you are right. We swam pretty far offshore from “Dead Men”. Well, happy dead men I guess.
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LIKE dead men. I think it works…mostly.
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Fine. Happy whales.
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LOL! This is a fun thread when you’ve been away for a few …
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And drop “up”. So just “well”
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K
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Done! (yeah, that’s better.)
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Working the burrito angle…
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Burritos sing in D Minor? Wow- never knew that. HAHA!
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LOLOL!
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Wow! I’m into another dimension here. Cool stuff, but way different than what you and I came up with, Jill! q, my man, you take things in another direction. And that’s cool. That’s cool!
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You have now entered the Burrito Zone.
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Lol!
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“direction” is a euphemism, right? Lol!
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Possibly it is. Matter’afact it is!
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