There they are in the mountain air longhaired young and strong bare-chested to the sun The women are naked pear-shaped orange shaped banana shaped sitting by the circle watching the mean make ice cream some children stare and want to know others touch and cry and break the concentration But here everybody is mother and father here everything is half paradise half truth and Jacob the leader of the band had the most knowing looks and the most knowing hands His presence most symbolizes the God of Youth The maker of the community The fixer of what can't work The moral maker whose ethics is with a soldering iron.
Irwin R. Shaw - August 7th 1987
The Community
There they are in the mountain air
longhaired
young and strong
bare-chested to the sun
The women are naked
pear-shaped
orange shaped
banana shaped
sitting by the circle
watching the mean make ice cream
some children stare and want to know
others touch and cry and break the concentration
But here everybody is mother and father
here everything is half paradise
half truth
and Jacob the leader of the band
had the most knowing looks
and the most knowing hands
His presence most symbolizes the God of Youth
The maker of the community
The fixer of what can't work
The moral maker whose ethics is with a soldering iron.