Monday, February 25, 2013

Pleasure and Pain




Pleasure and pain
Pain and pleasure
Funny how they come together

Pain and pleasure
Pleasure and pain
Just when you thought you were safe again




Pleasure and pain
Pain and pleasure
Like a glue they stick together
Without the pain there is no gain
Without the pleasure
Only one kind of weather
But when you get a taste of pleasure
You want it to go for ever and ever
And when it doesn’t you get mad
And crave the pleasure that you had
But pleasure’s gone
You to wait to see
What new taste is gonna be
When it takes so long you wonder why
Pleasure seems pass you by
And that is when you feel the pain
Of living in the everyday
Where’s the pleasure
Where’s it gone
Why did it only last so long?


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Pleasure and pain
Pain and pleasure
Funny how they come together

Pain and pleasure
Pleasure and pain
Just when you thought you were safe again

Pleasure and pain
Pain and pleasure
Like a glue they stick together
Enjoy your pleasure while you can...
But don’t forget to enjoy your pain.


(c) Paintings Jumaadi, courtesy of the artist and Watters Gallery.
http://www.wattersgallery.com/artists/JUMAADI/Jumaadi.html


(c)Poemsong Jan Cornall Lampung 2005, from Archipelagogo

Buy a signed copy of the book Archipelagogo HERE and support Jan's Indiegogo NY Launch Campaign

Archipelagogo is a new collection of poems, songs and stories, penned during my travels around the Indonesian Archipelago in the decade beginning 2004 (and a follow up to the novel I wrote during my Asia Link Residency in Jakarta in 2006). 

Many of these love-song-poems about people, places and the complexities of cross cultural relationships, have been spoken and sung (acapella - archipela) at different times to intimate audiences at literary festivals in the Asia Pacific: Ubud Writers Festival, Utan Kayu Literary Biennale, Darwin's Wordstorm, Braidwood's Two Fires Festival, St Kilda Writers Festival, Hong Kong International Literary Festival.

This beautifully presented book, published by Saritaksu Editions, is illustrated with paintings by Indonesian artist Jumaadi and had its first launch at a full house cabaret performance at Bar Luna, during Ubud Writers & Readers Festival in October 2013.

Take a sneak peek inside the book here. Read reviews here.


(c) Jan Cornall 2014

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