Saturday, February 27, 2010

tinnitus

in the next room
they’re slowly strangling the mezzo soprano
in the next room
they’re slowly strangling the mezzo soprano
in the next room
they’re slowly strangling the mezzo soprano
in the next room
they’re slowly strangling the mezzo soprano
in the next room
they’re slowly strangling the mezzo soprano
in the next room
they’re slowly strangling the mezzo soprano

13 comments:

BJeronimo said...

It's hard not reading that and by the end not to be singing it.

I'm not prone to ringing in my ear but having a tin ear has been applied to me more than once.

Kass said...

I feel guilty. I'm a mezzo.

NE said...

Who let Gertrude Stein and Arthur A. Grammar into the room?

As for comment #3, "I think I'm turning Japanese, oh yes I'm turning Japanese, I really THINK so...."

(Translation services by NE, Inc. -- that's "Incomplete" to you all.)

SarahJane said...

I removed "Comment #3" of japanese sex spam. It probably was more interesting than my post, and I had to do something to prevent reader flight.

ron hardy said...

Aw, what the hell. I missed the sex spam? I promise I will never flee. A group of six of us sang this piece in rounds. After about five minutes glossolalia took hold. It was fun.

NE said...

You didn't miss much, Ron. Just a bunch of incomprehensible Japanese characters (no, not Godzilla and Hello Kitty) with the English word SEX glowing in the middle of it all.

It's true what they say, then. "Sex" IS the universal language.

P.S. Does everyone in this joint have his or her own blog? Seems so.

Radish King said...

I love this. It makes me smile.

Gooroo said...

Well I suppose that would be quite noisy then.I have problems with a neighbour who commits piano massacre.
I know a woodwind player who got tinnitus from a trumpet player.He sued and won the case on the grounds of unsatisfactory seating
arrangements in the orchestra.

SarahJane said...

Piano massacre. Well, at least red looks nice with black and white.

ron hardy said...

I think I have tinnitus. How can this be diagnosed? If I say I have a cowbell or a nocturne in my head all the time, is that tinnitus or schizophrenia? I don't think it is detectable.

SarahJane said...

Only the person with tinnitus can "diagnose" it, since no doctor can find evidence of it. I've had mine since I was 14. I really hate loud noise. I'm that asshole putting her fingers in her ears when the ambulance goes by, wondering if it HAS to be THAT loud.

ron hardy said...

Mine began several years ago when I first took an antidepressant for anxiety and depression. Depending on my emotional state it can go from sounding rhythmically like cicadas to just a steady high-frequency tone.I can make it fluctuate by clenching and unclenching my jaw. It's so odd Sarah.

SarahJane said...

It is a drag. I also found mine got worse when I was on a strong medication for an infection. After a while it went back to "normal," ie the volume went down a bit. I wish I had some advice, but I fear it's bad wiring.

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