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The Glass Asylum The Glass Asylum Along with the rest of the country, I have been haunted, disturbed and downright disgusted with what we were put through on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. It has affected us all deeply and I want to personally offer my condolences and love and prayers to the victims and their families. We all have ways of dealing with our many feelings on the matter and one of my ways is of course, writing about it. So I thought it about time that I shared a poem I wrote on the day of the attacks. The Birds (for 09/11/01) oh god I can't fall under static, static everywhere on tv and in the air I thought I was safe when I changed the channel but it's snowing in New York on a clear September morning I think we had the first scoop screams like orchestration and then this dark, pointed bird a carnivorous, misguided thing like origami slicing sky lifted its baton to make us cry from the sidelines on the street WHY??? this panic is like static blanketing cars sinking minds and it's snowing in New York on this clear September morning no one prepared for air to bite (so hard to breathe) no one stopped to think that lately the birds have been flying low and skimming scalps and now pointy antennae buildings tumbling down and I thought you made our love small. That was nothing. The smallest hearts the weakest minds have grown out of the rubble erupting like a perverse Phoenix gloating like a bloated ego grinning in jagged metal braces glimmering with pain mocking ours and they have this day but not tomorrow. I don't expect it to comfort as much as I hope to show a glimmer of hope amidst all the darkness. Love, Cynthia My name is Cynthia Glass. I am a singer/songwriter and poet from a small midwestern town of no fixed origin. I have an excruciatingly dull day job and a head full of ideas that are driving me insane. I needed an unflinching receptacle to dump this personal data into so here it is...the Glass Asylum. Handle with care, OK? A Bit About Myself A little history here that may be able to provide a little insight into my works. I've been writing nearly my whole life and singing for just about the same. However I never really dared to couple the two and create songs because I simply thought that my writings were too "personal". I thought that no one would want to figure out the inner workings of myself besides myself, and that self exploration would be forbidden in the world of song. I mean there were hints of more personal and experimental music throughout the 80's, but you really had to LOOK for it you know? Peter Gabriel dared, Kate Bush dared, but everything that seemed to be making the charts seemed to be encased in its own impenetrable plastic bubble of *safe* bubblegum standards. And then someone truly phenominal came along. Someone who actually had the moxy to do what I'd only mentally conceived of doing, and she did it with such artistry and passion that it broke my heart and opened it to a whole new world. That woman was Tori Amos, a singer/songwriter pianist and poet (dare I say) extraordinaire. Please visit "A Dent in the Tori Amos Net Universe" to find out anything and everything about this wonderful woman. So she truly inspired me to begin the conception of my own songs. For a long time they lived in separate worlds. My writings would stay in my personal diaries and I would sing other peoples' songs. And a long time ago in a galaxy far far away I was actually a "lounge lizard" but that's another book in and of itself. Let's just say that it wasn't fulfilling as an artist for me to be pretending to be Whitney Houston or Barbara Streisand for the people. It was A JOB. WITCHBALLS AND SHADOWS Updates: 01/2001 The CD is finally complete! You can download MP3s and purchase said CD at my MP3.com site. You can find me at: mp3.com/CynthiaGlass Updates: 05/2001 If you're interested in purchasing my book of poetry entitled "Book of Shadows", please know that I am now accepting payments exclusively through Paypal. My hope is that this system makes people feel a little safer about purchasing on line. Signing up is completely secure, easy and doesn't cost a thing. It won't take more than a couple minutes to sign up. Just click on the button and the link that says "sign up here" at the bottom of the page. Also, I'm still donating $1.00 from each sale to one of my favorite causes, R.A.I.N.N.To purchase, please click on the button below. Here is a scan of the cover... Here are a few poems from the book... The Season of God Laura's Dye Job Another Pilot Down You can also find samples of my poetry in last winter's issue of Gray Matter Tapestry, the December '99 issue of Stirring: A Literary Collection and in the archives of Liquid Glyph. Support the poets of the world and follow those links, wonchya? Come and be completely subjected to my full range of musical tastes by tuning in toThe Mystyglass Menagerie Hour!!!(for the time being you must have a DSL/cable or T1 connection) OR ESCAPE THROUGH THESE OTHER WORLDS! Previous 5 Next Next 5 Random Site List Sites This Original Writing WebRing site is owned by Cynthia Glass. Want to make your mark on theOriginal Writing WebRing? [Skip Prev] [Prev] [Next] [Skip Next] [Random] [Next 5] [List Sites] This ~*~You Have Yourself To Fear~*~ site is owned by ***Cynthia Glass***. Want to join the ~*~You Have Yourself To Fear~*~? [Skip Prev][Prev] [Next][Skip Next][ Random][Next 5] [List Sites] This Good Book Webring Site Is owned by Cynthia Glass. [Previous] [Next] [Random Site] [List Sites] This Writer's Realm site is owned by Cynthia Glass . Want to join The Writer's Realm Writing Ring? [CHATROOMS!!!][Skip Prev][Prev][Next][Skip Next][Random][Next 5][List Sites] This The Amateur Poetry Ring site owned by Cynthia Glass. Previous Next List Sites Here is a friend's site that features some incredibly beautiful interpretive artwork of rock songs and much, much more. This particular one is of the Tori Amos song "Not the Red Baron". Click on the pic to go to his site "Blackholes and Butterflies". SIGN IT! LIVE IT! (um, please?) Read my Dreambook! Sign my Dreambook! Sign My Guestbook View My Guestbook SOME BUDDIES' SITES... Jerry at the Movies---a damn fine website devoted almost entirely to Independent Film, run by a damn fine individual (if I must say so myself) Gray Matter Press---a damn fine publishing company specializing in poetry and genealogy Stirring: A Literary Collection---a damn fine literary collection (that I've been published in myself) Liquid Glyph---a damn fine Chicago poetry webzine (that I've been published in myself) The God Site---Click this link and find out why God is constantly testing my faith, despite his direct blood relation. "Do you need a woman to look after you?" I pose the question... Poetry Super Highway---a really, really popular place to get yer quality poetry...updated once a week by a fascinating bloke called Rick...who also happens to be Jewish. And, just for fun... Remember kids, Tori Amos always says: So why can't you? You are visitor # my fine foxy friend...