The Last Romantic Verb: Kisses for Karma

Where did that piano come from? I don't know, but it lends a 70's ballad ambiance to KISSES FOR KARMA, beginning at the 14:05 mark (after a musical bridge that starts at 13:33) in THE LAST ROMANTIC VERB CD. Lively and loving, but carrying a very serious impulse of loss and frustration.

The poem notes that we are not guaranteed love for our good deeds. You can enter a relationship as an angel, saving someone from disaster, sacrifice all you have of family and fortune, and still not assured their love or faith. It's a hard lesson. But the counterpoint, communicated as much by the music as the words, is that you still must be true to your own heart's better impulses, even if all for naught.

And, of course, the horn section and that harmonica just seem to pop up of their own accord as punctuation.

Here the poet ponders new love, weighing it on the scales of pain and wisdom, of loss and redemption, based on his own experiences with betrayal and futility.

And then, at 16:55 we reach out to BRAGI TO FREYA, ON HIS DEATHBED, which explores the theme of the resurrection of the heart as a duty of the romantique.