i've had it wrong
all along
anonymity is
true beauty.
i just had to go
and sing this song
paint a rock and leave
it by the pond
who made la pieta?
and who stacked stones at stonehenge?
who tossed the first pizza?
and who was that chick
at the
station?
well i don't know,
uh, i don't know
anonymity is
true beauty
i don't really know
and how should i know?
i just know i have to
sing
a little ditty
you've got a voice of gold?
well sing to the trees
i say it's high time, too,
that the rooster crowed
at the cactus flower
in the wilderness
where only snakes can hiss;
no one else can fuss
yes
who made la pieta?
and who stacked stones at stonehenge?
who tossed the first pizza?
and who was that chick
at the
station?
oh
who made la pieta?
and who stacked stones at stonehenge?
who tossed the first pizza?
and who was that chick
at the
station?
Author notes
the title comes from something i saw on a PBS special once... also i think it's interesting that my stats book tells me that there is about a 99% chance that every time we breathe in we will suck in an air molecule exhaled by Caesar in his dying breath.
The Joshua Tree, too, renown for its age, has ingrained in its rings timeless tales which will never be known to the minds of men.
i won't talk about why i chose the lines about la pieta or the rocks by the pond. those will remain, less than ironically, anonymous of origin save to myself perhaps.
also, consider the black dahlia murder case. first, let me explain that i believe art to be defined as anything which requires some creative input. therefore in some ways i believe serial killers to be some of the most pure artists there are. of course, their executions are morbid, grotesque, and blatantly immoral, but that does not negate the fact that the principle conception of their art is fundamentally pure. let it be known, too, then, that by using the term "pure" i mean it only in the sense that it is true to form with little deviation from that form. these killers kill for the sake of killing, ostensibly. in the case of elizabeth short, then, it was concluded that she was brutally murdered in the way that only an artist could do so. she was bisected. a glasgow smile was slashed into her lips. her arms were raised above her head like a famous nude photograph at the time resembling a minotaur (i am reminded, too, here of the poster art for "equus"). she was also nude, but not sexually abused. it should go without saying that only a psychotic killer could do something like this, but i feel the need to point out, too, as the authorities implied, that only someone with the mind of an artist could have done what was done (i believe the killer to be george hodel, whose IQ was greater than that of einstein's---and as everyone should no, higher iqs are linked to greater risk of psychosis... hodel was experienced in surgical proceedings, being a doctor himself... this is integral because of the manner of the bisection and other markings on short's body. finally, hodel was also well aware of the harmful effects of sexually transmitted diseases considering his field of practice, therefore it is easy to see how he would have been dissuaded by the idea of coming into contact with the promiscuous short in a sexual fashion).
but i digress. although the black dahlia murderer was not necessarily a serial killer, his mindset was still that of a artistic purist's. and the factor of anonymity was certainly there as well. there is some speculation that orson welles may have been the killer. this is interesting because welles was one of the greatest artists to ever grace the cinema. if welles was the killer, then why would he strive for such anonymity? is it possible that he consider the fame of hollywood to be corrupting and felt the need to divorce himself from it?
no one will ever really know for sure. in short's day, people and plants and animals lived and died. and somewhere, the joshua tree was growing. it was like a black hole of energy, sucking all the knowledge up like a sponge. somewhere in its now dead rings the answers lie, waiting, too, to be bisected and dissected, even though to some degree this is also an appalling thought.
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