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My Message

from My Message by Paul Kotheimer

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I carved my message into a bar of Ivory Soap and tossed it in the ocean. In retrospect this was prob’bly not the best idea, ‘cause now I could use a bath and there’s not a bar of soap around.

I mixed my message into an eggplant tart and put it in the oven. What happened next was about what you’d expect: ‘cause when it was done, it smelled so delicious that we ate it all and never gave a second thought to anything that might be hidden inside.

So I hired a pilot to write my message in the sky. Her cursive was impeccable but her altitude was way too high; so, by the time it drifted into view, my message was competing with a rainbow. --I mean, who wants to be competing with a rainbow?

I carved my message into a bar of Ivory Soap and tossed it in the ocean. On second thought, this was probably the best idea of them all-- ‘cause think about the volume of the ocean, and think of my message floating there with all the jellyfish and orcas and rubber ducks and running shoes that fall off of container ships, and think about the dolphins translating my message into Dolphinese-- into Dolphinese-- into Dolphinese.

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from My Message, released September 1, 2014
Words and music by Paul Kotheimer. All instruments by PK. Final audio mastereing by Carl Schaff. Written 23 September 2013, for immediate debut at Urbana Hootenanny at the Rose Bowl Tavern. Recorded November 2013.

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Paul Kotheimer Urbana, Illinois

For well over 30 years now, Paul Kotheimer has been writing songs. And then recording them. And then putting them together into albums.
At first, way way back in the actual 1980s, he used a cassette player and a microphone from Radio Shack. Now he's the proprietor of Pillow Monster Home Studio, complete with lots of musical instruments and recording gear and one actual pillow monster. YAY MUSIC! ... more

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