You are (we are) one light, / Myriad each one, / Reflecting among an infinity / Of lights from moment to moment.
You are (we are) one light, / Myriad each one, / Reflecting among an infinity / Of lights from moment to moment.
You are (we are) one light, / Myriad each one, / Reflecting among an infinity / Of lights from moment to moment.



















THE TIME WE HAVE, Meld 1 was #3
Jazz in North America, November 2020.
It came back into the Top-40 for the Week of January 21, 2023.
You are one / Light among / Many Lights / And we're all / Here to shine

'It's a marvelous book. Lovely and heartfelt.'
TOM ZIGAL, Texas
"It's a very good book. I like it very much. It's always changing. It's bouncy. Bouncy. I like its architecture."
JOHNNY
VIDACOVICH, New Orleans
''Don Paul is a great conveyor of truth through poetry and
music and through magnetic presence.'
TARA SUFIANA, Mendocino
'Animals Are Always Making Music is not a book to read in one sitting or even one week
.... Some of these poems are so heavy ... Its concluding section then offers us sweetness at journey's end.'
VALENTINE PIERCE,
New Orleans
'Don Paul's voice in Animals Are Always Making Music is so authentic and so full of heart that it sounds like a drum and sings from the book's pages. '
PAUL PLIMLEY,
Canada
With drawings by Christopher Cardinale, Mac McGill and Seth Tobocman.
Much of the prose here owes to hosting by Bill Jablonski at puppetgov.com.
'The Poets They're Drinking' is reprinted on Julio Cesar Pol's sleepingpoets webpage.
Much thanks to many great musicians for their collaboration and inspiration.
ISBN 978-0-94-3096-06-3.
Performing on bandcamp
"We Are NOT Superior!"--excerpts from Chairman Emeritus' Post-Serial's speech against 'Depopulation' to the Inmost Circle of the Highest Of All Believers In Bamboozlement.

Performing at Louisiana Music
Factory 'The Dreamers and
the Believers' with a Rivers
of Dreams band of Roger Lewis, Kirk Joseph and Mario Abney.

Performing "Some Rain Tonight" on the album The Time We Have (Meld $1) with a Rivers of Dreams band of Mario Abney, Michael Torregano Jr., and Nick Benoit.

199 pages. Third edition, April 2021.
$20 within the United States.
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Click HERE to READ PDF of Animals Are Always Making Music.
Chairman Emeritus Post-Serial's full and startling 2009 speech to the HOABIB,
renouncing 'Depopulation' and relating his "epiphany", can be read on pages 63 to 74. An excerpt, 'The Chairman's Voice Turns Tender through Dreams of Children's Hands', can be heard on BANDCAMP.
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