Lost Angel – Corporate America – Poetry Series 01

A 2013 HEAR Now Festival Presenter

A 2014 Native American Music Award Finalist for Best Spoken Word

Introduction with Ray Manzarek cofounder of The Doors

“This collection of interconnected short stories is beautifully captured by a small cast of narrators. Tom Weiner portrays the dark spirit of a troubled serial killer known as the Freeway Slasher in the first story. His grim tone puts listeners on the edge of their seats throughout. Lucia Sherman steals the show with an expertly underplayed performance in which she offers the chilling character of Damon, a mysterious hitchhiker. The stories work well with each other, and the selection of narrators is perfect, each offering a new chapter to the tale in his or her own dramatic way. Emerson creates a thrilling ride down Interstate 40.” (see source links below) - L.B. © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine

Read by Ray Manzarek, Jessica Robinson, Tom Weiner, Raymond Scully, Lucia Sherman, Ryan Farmer, and Paul Michael Garcia. Music by SIP.

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Sharing the poem, Corporate America, for the first time publicly since the publication of my paperback Lost Angel (copyright 2005).

Note: The ideas in these poems formed in the late 1990s when Nirvana remained King, and a would be Jim Morrison for the next generation began a writing career on the streets of Southern California.

Military experience, followed with college training in a region that remains a political engine within the Federal Government of the United States of America.

And then 9/11. All the while a Native American feeling the aftermath of genocide.

And in the depths of this ethos managed to discover the audiobook industry, meet Ray Manzarek of the Doors, and have a contract to begin working with him that lasted until his departure from cancer.

The goal would have been to work with Ray, Robby, and John on my audiobook Lost Angel. To record these poems as they had done with the American Prayer album. The offer still stands with Robby and John . . .

Corporate America

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The face of America is red clay.
We drive upon its high cheek bone hills.
Wallow through rivers that stretch like limbs
Out to sea.

There are scars of deep canyon crevices,
Luminous lake eyes,
Blooming cotton hair,
Smiling purple mountain ranges.

It’s all there to exploit
By people who never knew
The ones who loved this land
Before me and you.

Best regards,

Cyrus Emerson

Lost Angel now available on Amazon:
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