Last march I was joined by HEK, an Icelandic Singer/Songwriter and poet whom I had met in the previous year. He wrote the poem “Nowhere” right before he came to the US, and in Brooklyn taverns and late night jam sessions would recite it to whatevcer haphazard groups we’d managed to assemble. It has a simple imagery, and powerful message, and when I read it, it puts me in a mental space where I feel like I am contemplating our world from the outside. With his permission, here is HEK’s “Nowhere”
Nowhere
By HEK
by Sandi Palermo
The Blue planet turned in to a drop
And the drop hit the sun
And there was no light
Man survived
And turned on the moon
Made a new home
Loved his neighbor and respected his wife
They were technically alive
Driven by electric light
Pail with big eyes
Dreaming about old times
Caveman on the moon
Discovered fire
Cloned earth from dirt
And introduced himself to Adam and Eve
Well Eve got scared
And Adam took a bite
Again started the eternal fight
Where Creation looses every time
Once up on a time there was light
But light was lonely and wanted to understand
So light made shadow
For shadow to understand it´s light
