Soprano Hayley Boggs and pianist Maryna Buksha perform "Dropping Fleas Into a Glass of Water." Poem by Alexander Theroux; music by Gary Lloyd Noland, Op. 112.

Here is Alexander Theroux's poem "Dropping Fleas into a Glass of Water":

Wet fleas are three-fourths dead.
The way they despair is, oddly,
by activity. I find the way sunshine
illuminates their last agonies
by adding irony to pain the way
when desperately we try to pray
in struggling to save ourselves
our imprecations quickly take on
disbelief so used we are to God's
suffocating silence as we drown.
Their minuscule bagpipe bodies
brown and tiny as tobacco flakes
with snouts like Bosch's horns
as crazily they scissorleg and
thrash, bite for air, eat water
the way leaves gulp red light,
experience with each abdominal
exertion in the champagne night
of frying, sizzling bubbles
the dreadful fact that jumping
does not work, just as prayer reaching
for a similar height does not
in our despair. As to beseeching,
kicking, thrashing, madly humping
fleas in water likewise is our lot.

For VP Richard Cheney
and all monsters everywhere who advocate
and delight in torture.

Music copyright © 2019 by Gary Lloyd Noland
Text from Collected Poems copyright © 2015 by Alexander Theroux 
Permission to set this poem has been granted by the author.

For more information on composer Gary Lloyd Noland, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

DROPPING FLEAS INTO A GLASS OF WATER for soprano & piano; poem by Alexander Theroux

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