the concert

rufus wainwright
cindy sheehan
peaches
fischerspooner
margaret cho
bright eyes
moby
susan sarandon
michael stipe
other performers
and a ballroom full of people

albeit
a ballroom full of strangely similar looking people
in this case nearly all under the age of 25
and predominately lgbt
which
despite the youngish, hipish, queerish lineup
did seem a bit odd to me
i had expected more diversity
but then again
we were in the pit
and who knows what it was like upstairs

and so created
from this youthful, vibrant energy
was a ballroom filled with people
and a nation on its way
all rallying for peace
all demanding it
not when they decide that enough have finally died
but now

nothing struck me more this evening
(except perhaps for my mid-show text)
(which arrived from my little brother will)
(and so eloquently summed up the evening as a whole)
in it he simply wrote
"fuck war-go rufus!"
and smiling ear to ear
i laughed because he got it
what this was all about
rock on boyeeeee
brilliance through and through

but honestly
aside from this moment of zen
nothing struck me more
than the speaker who screamed
to a ballroom of aware minds
that
"america does not want this war"
"the people of iraq do not want this war"
"and finally after the latest poll, we now know that the soldiers do not want this war"
"WE ARE THE MAJORITY"
"and if this were a true democracy"
"we would demand to bring them home now"

wow
we ARE the majority
rally behind that notion
we are the majority
and peace must be taken back
it must be demanded
and it must now
be fought for