Elegy for Sea Level Records
Sea Level Villanelle
When music calls to lift you from the dark
The sun shines on a place that many laud
At Sea Level in the shade of Echo Park
Brimming with suggestions for a lark
Of weekly shows, conventional and odd,
When music calls to lift you from the dark
Its emailed updates, anything but stark,
Had links and new releases to be sought
At Sea Level in the shade of Echo Park
With a selection broad as story arcs,
The kind that makes collectors awed,
When music calls to lift you from the dark
A smiling crew, with nary a grouse nor bark,
Welcome all the punks, folkies, goths, and mods,
At Sea Level in the shade of Echo Park
With this villanelle its passing we will mark
And on to new adventures goes its Todd
When music called to lift you from the dark
At Sea Level in the shade of Echo Park
