Notes For I Have You
"I Have You" - this little number has been popular with some people but I have always had mixed feelings about it, but it is also one that I remember quite vividly in what was occurring around me while it was being written. So, - it was early April, 2002 and I was looking out an attic window; it was a pleasant view but it was also dark with a mid-afternoon overcast sky - no rain but plenty of fog and someone close to me - was dying. And it occurred to me at that moment that for someone who calls himself a poet I had no words that I could say over a loved one's grave so I wrote this in a just a few minutes while this tune was playing in the background: "In a Landscape" by the avant-garde minimalist composer John Cage of all people. You can listen to it on U-Tube if you like; it's quite an atmospheric piece and quite elegant and I do wonder what was on Mr. Cage's mind when he composed it? I'm never going to elaborate on what I don't like about the poem however.
S J Garrett
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