"don't count my scars like the tree rings"

Listen to the stuff at this NPR link. Really. Click here. Listen to the Michael Stipe piece. Then the related links. It will take a few minutes. But still.



and so all you observers
in your scrutiny
don't count my scars like the tree rings.
my jigsaw disposition. it's piecemeal properties
are either smoked or honey-cured
by the panic pure.

by the panic pure.


Vic Chesnutt is dead.

NPR piece that you really should listen to (michael stipe remembers his friend) and links to other stuff like a great npr "tiny desk concert "click here