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Terrarium

from Terrarium by Paul Kotheimer

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Turn your front porch into a 3-D mosaic labyrinth &
then turn your sky into a deep blue velvet yurt with sparkling stars
and when you can’t remember why you’re doing it, just
try and remember that you’re doing it cause you’re doing it for free

Roll up your garden bed and knead it into a loaf of fancy bread
and dance your masterpiece for an empty auditorium of trees
and when anyone asks why you keep doing it
just answer by keeping on keeping on doing it for free--
Why bother writing more to this song? You get the picture
Just keep doing it
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Consider for example a terrarium
That microcosm in a jar
Just set it in some sunny corner of the library
for half a century and
it grows and grows and there you are

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from Terrarium, released March 13, 2019
Guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, and vocals by PK, recorded at home, in the basement and living room/front office. Drum kit recording session assisted by Charlie Harris and Sage Johnson, with equipment loaned by Sam Payne. Charlie also served as bass line deconstruction consultant. Casiotone 401 inspired by gobbinjr. Second half of the song taken straight from the original sing-it-to-your-phone demo, just because.

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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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