TORCH SONGS 2
Torch Song 2 systematically runs the gamut* from the defiance of liberated belting in the italicized opening line to the existentially rhetorical closing (misty-eyed, far-looking, though short- sighted, in the sense of stressing the tension with subjective interiority). *used here not in reference to the lowest note in Guido d’Arenzzo’s scale		We were not born in a garden inky apparati go where glory waits where does glory wait