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Mon Oct 27, 2025, 09:27 PM Oct 2025

Stargazy Mouth Music: A Song for the New Famine



Stargazy Mouth Music: A Song for the New Famine

This piece falls on the hinge between Halloween and Advent—when ghosts still walk, and hunger waits for the promised feast. The veil thins, the cupboards echo, and the songs we sing are half prayer, half warning.

A modern echo of the Cornish legend of Tom Bawcock, who once braved a winter storm and brought back enough fish to feed his starving village. The proof was baked into a single pie—seven kinds of fish, their heads rising through the crust like small miracles.

Today, the seas are calm, but the hunger returns—the nets are full, but many go unfed. SNAP cuts, rising costs, and quiet cruelty have brought waves of misery crashing on the beach.

They said no drums. So we sang with our mouths.
This film remembers an earlier feast of survival in another age of famine.

"The fish are singing through holes in the sky."


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Stargazy Mouth Music: A Song for the New Famine (Original Post) Generic Other Oct 2025 OP
Stargaze pie. iemitsu Oct 2025 #1
Damn this is great! LearnedHand Oct 2025 #2
I am the band Generic Other Oct 2025 #3
Wow. Color me super impressed! LearnedHand Oct 2025 #4
I am using a song/music generator Generic Other Oct 2025 #5

iemitsu

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1. Stargaze pie.
Mon Oct 27, 2025, 09:41 PM
Oct 2025

I love the images of stargazy pie I’ve seen but I didn’t know this history. Thanks. A wonderful video.

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