"Here Made Of Gone" for Isabella Stewart Gardner, by Randy Vera (BMI) finalist, 2012 John Lennon Award (Jazz Catagory)

"Here Made of Gone" for Isabella Stewart Gardner Lyrics By Randy Vera Music By: Randy Vera and Anthony J. Resta http://bopnique.com/anthony-j-resta-and-randall-vera-finalists-john-lennon LYRICS : Vermeer, Rembrandt, Manet, Degas, from my three thousand year old Chinese KU, I toast you. Mrs. Jack, I am your Bronze Eagle. I cut the painting at the frame – thieves by any other name. Mrs. Jack with handcuffs and balls, I overcame your walls. Your collection’s complete. Titian's Europa still hangs. The mirror to my: Piece de la resistance. I’m your creme de la creme. I’m the John with the Procures on the wall in Vermeer’s concert. Here, made of gone. Mrs Jack, I’m your new William James. Through your kindness, you support me, in Dutch Room empty frames. Like John Singer Sargent, I toil between your walls. I am Vermeer’s "corn flower blue," indescribable. The metaphysical: Known unknown! St Patrick’s Day 1990, I’m in Boston in the Fenway. For my penance, I’ll go to Saint John’s, drop to my knees, and like you, scrub the tiles clean. Titian's Europa still hangs, the mirror to my: piece de La resistance. I’m your creme de la creme. I’m the John with the Procures on the wall in Vermeer’s concert. Here made of gone. Where language fails that where art triumphs. The interloper between camps of reason and dreams. I’m an event not cognition. Like any event stored in canvas, paper, pen ,or ink. Oh Mrs Jack I so love your "Head Band." I’m also a Redsox fan. I loved the Champagne and donuts, and thank you for the paintings.

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Notes: Artwork from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston is still missing. Mrs Jack was one of a kind, an American original in every way. Her house, "Fenway Court" is today the Museum which still holds one of the most valuable collections in North America. Titian's "The Rape Of Europa" hangs in a room across from the pilfered Dutch room. A Michelangelo is a few steps away in the hall behind it next to Napoleon's battle flag. In the hall below are some of Dante's original manuscripts. Too many magnificent works to list. Botticelli, Matisse, Degas and John Singer Sargent's masterpiece "The Ruckus" are still there. The bad guys took the only seascape attributed to the Dutch master Rembrandt: "The Storm On The Sea Of Galilee" (I saw it at a HS field trip in 1988, almost a year to the day before it went missin) A list of rest of the missing Art is in this fine report from Boston's NPR station: http://onpoint.wbur.org/2010/02/24/stolen-art
The FBI questioned me while I was researching "Mrs. Jack" and the heist. They thought I was a little crazy. I told them I'm just a poet doing research for a song. I was a teen on March 17 1990, the night of the heist. I have no info beyond this song)

Mrs. Jack built Fenway Court to her specs. The art she hand picked. The glass roof? Ya, her idea. She wanted the forces of life and hope to flow out.
The old Boston Arena is in Fenway Court's back yard. Any event in Boston was held there at the time. Fenway Park is less than a mile away.
Mrs. Jack inspiered 4 novels that we can be certain of. The tabloids loved her.

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