tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30955885601393977552024-02-07T14:54:12.015+11:00Desolation AngelsOld Fitzroy - - Dreaming blues, karlos?http://www.blogger.com/profile/16126705814934586860noreply@blogger.comBlogger64125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3095588560139397755.post-91304687832380226192016-01-19T01:16:00.000+11:002016-01-20T21:03:40.670+11:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Old Fitzroy - - Dreaming blues, karlos?http://www.blogger.com/profile/16126705814934586860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3095588560139397755.post-5514239840108625182014-11-03T13:23:00.001+11:002014-11-10T17:29:56.844+11:00Francois Villon 1463 ". . . the snows of yesteryear<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Villon I fell into early, he was my first serious poet.<br />
Imagine! falling into Villon.<br />
I never really understood Villon nor that period of time.<br />
Anyway there it is.<br />
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(dostoevski, villon, dylan thomas, the beat poet allen ginsberg,<br />
henry miller, jack kerouac, mailer, et al . . .<br />
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francois villon<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Where are the snows of
yesteryear?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">The refrain "Where are the snows of </span><a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yesteryear" title="wikt:yesteryear"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">yester-year</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">?"
is one of the most famous lines of translated poetry in the English-speaking
world. It comes from<i>The Ballad of Dead Ladies,</i> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante_Gabriel_Rossetti" title="Dante Gabriel Rossetti"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Dante Gabriel Rossetti</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">'s<sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Villon#cite_note-Rossetti-Dead-Ladies-7">[7]</a></sup>
translation of Villon's </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballade_des_dames_du_temps_jadis" title="Ballade des dames du temps jadis"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Ballade des dames du temps jadis</span></i></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">, where
the line is: "Mais où sont les neiges d'antan?"<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Villon's poems are sprinkled with mysteries and
hidden jokes: they are peppered with the slang of the time and the underworld
subculture in which Villon moved,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Villon#cite_note-5"><sup>[5]</sup></a>
replete with private jokes, and full of the names of real people (rich men,
royal officials, lawyers, prostitutes, and policemen) from medieval Paris.<sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Villon#cite_note-6">[6]</a></sup><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">The next date for which there are recorded whereabouts for Villon is the
summer of 1461; Villon wrote that he spent that summer in the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_de_Meung-sur-Loire" title="Château de Meung-sur-Loire"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">bishop's prison at Meung-sur-Loire</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">. His
crime is not known, but in </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Testament" title="Le Testament"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Le
Testament</span></i></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> ("The Testament") dated that year he
inveighs bitterly against Bishop </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thibault_d%27Aussigny&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Thibault d'Aussigny (page does not exist)"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Thibault d'Aussigny</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">, who
held the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/See_of_Orl%C3%A9ans" title="See of Orléans"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">see of Orléans</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">. Villon may have been released
as part of a general jail-delivery at the accession of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XI_of_France" title="Louis XI of France"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">King Louis XI</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> and became a free man again on 2
October 1461.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">In 1461, he wrote his most famous work, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Testament" title="Le Testament"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Le
Testament</span></i></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> (or <i>Le Grand Testament,</i> as it is also
known). In the autumn of 1462, he was once more living in the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloister" title="Cloister"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">cloisters</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Church_of_Saint-Beno%C3%AEt-le-B%C3%A9tourn%C3%A9&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Church of Saint-Benoît-le-Bétourné (page does not exist)"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Saint-Benoît</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> and in
November, he was imprisoned for theft in the fortress that stood at what is now
</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Place_du_Ch%C3%A2telet" title="Place du Châtelet"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Place du Châtelet</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> in Paris. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">In default of
evidence, the old charge of burgling the college of Navarre was revived, and no
royal pardon arrived to counter the demand for restitution. Bail was accepted;
however, Villon fell promptly into a street quarrel. He was arrested, tortured
and condemned to be hanged (<i>"pendu et étranglé"</i>), but the
sentence was commuted to banishment by the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parlement" title="Parlement"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">parlement</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> on 5
January 1463.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Villon's fate after January 1463 is unknown. </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabelais" title="Rabelais"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Rabelais</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> retells
two stories about him which are usually dismissed as without any basis in fact.
Anthony Bonner speculated the poet, as he left Paris, was "broken in
health and spirit." Bonner writes further:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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have died on a mat of straw in some cheap tavern, or in a cold, dank cell; or
in a fight in some dark street with another </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Coquillard&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Coquillard (page does not exist)"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Coquillard</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> (<a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coquillard" title="fr:Coquillard">fr</a>);
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On 5 June 1455, the first major recorded incident
of his life occurred. In the company of a priest named Giles and a girl named
Isabeau, he met, in the Rue Saint-Jacques, a Breton, Jean le Hardi, a master of
arts, who was also with a priest, Philippe Chermoye (or Sermoise or Sermaise).
A scuffle broke out, daggers were drawn and Sermaise, who is accused of having
threatened and attacked Villon and drawn the first blood, not only received a
dagger-thrust in return, but a blow from a stone, which struck him down. He
died of his wounds. Villon fled, and was sentenced to banishment – a sentence
which was remitted in January 1456 by a pardon from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_VII_of_France" title="Charles VII of France">King Charles VII</a> after he received the second
of two petitions which made the claim that Sermoise had forgiven Villon before
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Two different versions of the formal pardon exist;
in one, the culprit is identified as <i>"François des Loges, autrement dit
Villon"</i> ("François des Loges, otherwise called Villon"), in
the other as "François de Montcorbier." He is also said to have named
himself to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barber-surgeon" title="Barber-surgeon">barber-surgeon</a> who dressed his wounds as "Michel
Mouton." The documents of this affair at least confirm the date of his
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Around Christmas 1456, the chapel of the Collège de
Navarre was broken open and five hundred gold crowns stolen. Villon was
involved in the robbery and many scholars believe that he fled from Paris soon
afterward and that this is when he composed what is now known as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Petit_Testament&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Petit Testament (page does not exist)"><i>Petit Testament</i></a>
("The Smaller Testament") or <i>Lais</i> ("Legacy" or
"Bequests").<br />
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The robbery was not discovered until March of the next
year, and it was not until May that the police came on the track of a gang of
student-robbers, owing to the indiscretion of one of them, Guy Tabarie. A year
more passed, when Tabarie, after being arrested, turned king's evidence and
accused the absent Villon of being the ringleader, and of having gone to
Angers, partly at least, to arrange similar burglaries there. Villon, for
either this or another crime, was sentenced to banishment; he did not attempt
to return to Paris.<br />
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For four years, he was a wanderer. He may have been, as his
friends Regnier de Montigny and Colin des Cayeux were, a member of a wandering
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Tell me where, or in what land<br />
is Flora, the lovely Roman,<br />
or Archipiades, or Thaïs,<br />
who was her first cousin;<br />
or Echo, replying whenever called<br />
across river or pool,<br />
and whose beauty was more than human?<br />
But where are the snows of yesteryear?<br />
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Where is that brilliant lady Heloise,<br />
for whose sake Peter Abelard was castrated<br />
and became a monk at Saint-Denis?<br />
He suffered that misfortune because of his love for her.<br />
And where is that queen who<br />
ordered that Buridan<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
be thrown into the Seine in a sack?<br />
But where are the snows of yesteryear?<br />
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Queen Blanche, white as a lily,<br />
who sang with a siren’s voice;<br />
Big-footed Bertha, Beatrice, Alice,<br />
Arembourg who ruled over Maine;<br />
and Joan, the good maiden of Lorraine<br />
who was burned by the English at Rouen —<br />
where are they, where, O sovereign Virgin?<br />
But where are the snows of yesteryear?<br />
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Prince, do not ask in a week<br />
where they are, or in a year.<br />
The only answer you will get is this refrain:<br />
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Old Fitzroy - - Dreaming blues, karlos?http://www.blogger.com/profile/16126705814934586860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3095588560139397755.post-84908187328510154032014-09-07T00:15:00.001+10:002015-03-01T23:43:06.461+11:00karl gallagher<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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at New York’s Five Spot club from 1959-1960 was one of the seminal moments in
jazz history . . . “Some people didn’t
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Charlie Haden, a Grammy-winning musician who helped change the
shape of jazz more than a half-century ago as the bass player with Ornette
Coleman’s groundbreaking quartet and who liberated the bass from its
traditional rhythm section role, died July 11 in Los Angeles. He was 76.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">His publicist, Tina Pelikan of ECM Records, confirmed the death.
Mr. Haden had been struggling for several years with complications from
post-polio syndrome.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Mr. Haden’s career was marked by the triumph of beauty over
suffering. He turned to the bass after losing his singing voice to polio as a
teenager, when he was performing with the Haden Family country band. The onset
of post-polio syndrome in 2010 forced him to stop performing publicly, although
he played at home to his favorite recordings as well as with visiting musician
friends such as guitarist Pat Metheny and pianist Alan Broadbent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">During his career, Mr. Haden’s lyrical bass playing could be
heard in a variety of musical genres, including jazz, country and world music.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">“I want to take people away from the ugliness and sadness around
us every day and bring beautiful, deep music to as many people as I can,” he
said in an interview with the Associated Press in 2013, shortly before he
received a Grammy award for lifetime achievement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The Grammy recognition — as well as being named a Jazz Master in
2012 by the National Endowment for the Arts — was a far cry from the reception
Mr. Haden received in the late 1950s as a member of Coleman’s revolutionary
quartet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The quartet’s engagement at New York’s Five Spot club from
1959-1960 was one of the seminal moments in jazz history, as musicians heatedly
debated the group’s new music dubbed “free jazz,” which challenged the bop
establishment by liberating musicians to freely improvise off the melody rather
than the underlying chord changes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">“Some people didn’t understand what we were doing and they were
afraid because they’d never heard anything like that before — so we dealt with
it the best we could,” Mr. Haden said in the 2013 interview.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Mr. Haden found a kindred spirit in Coleman, whom he met after
relocating to Los Angeles in 1957. The quartet, which included trumpeter Don
Cherry and drummer Billy Higgins, released the aptly named album “The Shape of
Jazz to Come” in 1959.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">“I wanted to play on the inspiration of a composition rather
than on the chord structure,” Mr. Haden said in a 2006 interview with the AP,
“and every time I tried to do this, the other musicians that I was playing with
would be upset with me. The first time I played with Ornette, all of a sudden
the lights were turned on for me because here was someone else who was.</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">.</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif";"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">doing the same thing I was trying to do.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">But even as a member of Coleman’s quartet, Mr. Haden drew on the
harmonies and melodies he learned playing country music as a child.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Mr. Haden saw the common link between jazz and country. Both are
poor people’s music related to “the struggle for independence, identity and to
be recognized,” he told the AP in 2009, after the release of his first country
album, “Rambling Boy,” on which he played songs by the Carter Family and other
traditional country musicians.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">He recorded the 2009 album with his wife, Ruth Cameron; son,
Josh; triplet daughters, Rachel, Petra and Tanya; and son-in-law, actor Jack
Black, as well as Elvis Costello, Vince Gill and Rosanne Cash.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">“My roots have never left me,” Mr. Haden said in 2009, “because
the very first memory I have is my mom singing and me singing with her.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The album included Haden’s first recorded performance — an
excerpt from a 1939 Haden Family radio show on which 22-month-old Cowboy
Charlie yodels on a gospel tune.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Charles Edward Haden was born Aug. 6, 1937, in Shenandoah,
Iowa, and soon began performing with his parents and siblings as the youngest
member of the Haden Family band, which had its own radio show and was popular
on the Midwest country circuit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">But polio weakened his vocal cords and ended his singing career
at 15, leading him to focus on the bass while attending high school in Omaha.
He became interested in jazz after hearing saxophonist Charlie Parker perform
with Jazz at the Philharmonic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">He headed to Los Angeles to study music and began performing
with such local musicians as pianist Hampton Hawes and saxophonist Art Pepper
before meeting Coleman.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">After making a series of groundbreaking recordings with
Coleman’s band, including the double quartet “Free Jazz” in 1961, Mr. Haden and
pianist-composer Carla Bley formed the Liberation Music Orchestra in 1969,
which blended experimental big band jazz with world folk music, including songs
of the Spanish Civil War.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Mr. Haden occasionally performed with Coleman, including the
1995 recording “Song X” with guitarist Metheny, with members of the original
Coleman quartet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">“Charlie could always find and illuminate the essential meaning
in every musical moment no matter what the setting,” Metheny said in an e-mail
to the AP. “His unique presence as a player and broad perspective of what music
can offer the world allowed him to define in sound the fundamental feeling of
what it is to be human.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">In the 1980s, Mr. Haden formed the Los Angeles-based Quartet
West with saxophonist Ernie Watts, pianist-arranger Broadbent and drummer
Larance Marable. The group played mainstream jazz inspired by the film noir
world of the 1940s.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Mr. Haden won three Grammy Awards, including best jazz
instrumental performance for his 1997 album with Metheny, “Beyond the Missouri
Sky,” and best Latin jazz album for “Nocturne” (2001) and “Land of the Sun”
(2004), both featuring Cuban pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Mr. Haden founded a jazz studies program, in which he emphasized
the spirituality of improvisation, at the California Institute of the Arts in
1982.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Last month, ECM released “Last Dance” from the same 2007 duet
session with pianist Keith Jarrett that produced the Grammy-nominated 2010
album “Jasmine.” The recordings reflected the two musicians’ shared love for
standard ballads</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Old Fitzroy - - Dreaming blues, karlos?http://www.blogger.com/profile/16126705814934586860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3095588560139397755.post-83079311406519012122014-03-03T01:15:00.000+11:002014-11-05T00:15:52.367+11:00Lynne Savitt<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Layers of meaning and feelings by a writer who makes it look easy. </span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">Images iridescent as seahorses sometimes found among the smells </span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">and clumps of ancient seaweeds washed up on beaches after storms. </span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">Savitt's writng is essentially about love, its pleasures and </span><span style="color: #0b5394;">pain</span><span style="color: #0b5394;">.</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">karl gallagher.</span><br />
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Appreciation of Lynne Savitt”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">A recent review by </span><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">poet and translator</span><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;"> Art Beck </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"As the
poem progressed, its language seemed to slow and double back on itself. It
forced me to pick up each word like a pebble in a trail, something familiar
leading me forward in the work. This was poetry as well as sentiment; language
coming alive and talking back to her . . . :<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">…say
it wasn’t all<br />
bad those black, humid<br />
nights we traveled to<br />
the planetariums in our<br />
heads exploded with<br />
dirty release & it wasn’t<br />
shame<br />
our last meeting<br />
didn’t go as soft as the<br />
day you asked me to<br />
marry a man who<br />
wasn’t a good father<br />
is something I just<br />
couldn’t we meet some<br />
where dreams touch<br />
& you wake in a sweat<br />
of recognition for something<br />
lost goodbye, michael<br />
at last the tears<br />
3 a.m. months later.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">This level of subterranean dialogue . . . [I]ts opacities were still too clear and its emotions too upfront for
LangPo or academia. Its metrics were too quirky and un-retro for the
Formalists. You could call it Confessional—but there’s a level of control in
its wildness, a sense of comfort with its own skin . . .</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“One
thing that Savitt brings to the discussion of lust is female freedom. Desire
and bodily fluids are there for the sharing, but ownership is off the table.
Savitt is no stranger to marriage and many of her poems reflect day-to-day
domestic life. There are sincere, filial dialogues with parents, children,
grandchildren. There are poems about care-giving, illness, accidents, death,
and dementia. Savitt is a loyal daughter, and a fiercely loving mother. But
domesticity as an institution is viewed guardedly, sardonically:</span></div>
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tiny lump you discover<br />
under your right breast<br />
while powdering<br />
the perfume line<br />
he’ll nuzzle moments before<br />
the plunge…</span></div>
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marriage bed.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">”</span></span><span style="font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ISBN: 978-1-935520-82-5<br />
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Publication Date: 02/14/2014<br />
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Cover Art: Reflections<br />
by Noelle Crough </span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">CASUALTIES </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">talking
about college, him<br />
coming from kansas, ex-wives,<br />
husbands, the kids, the time<br />
we’d spent in l.a. & he asked<br />
“what happened to your first husband?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“a
marine, “ i answered, “he died</span><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></div>
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in vietnam in ’66”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">he
started to shake & blacked</span><br />
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out, saliva gathering in his mouth,<br />
i turned his head to keep him from<br />
choking, he babbled twenty minutes<br />
about vietnam horrors & when he<br />
came to, said, “i’m sorry, i’d better go.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">i took
his hand & led him</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">to my bedroom where the wars had ended</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and a
flag lay folded in the drawer.</span><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="color: black;">BLONDE BACKLIT BY THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;">at 7:03 saturday morning </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;">yr wife called to tell me </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;">you’re dying to see me</span></span></span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;">unfinished business </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;">haven’t spoken in six </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;">teen years ago you stole</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;">my heart forgot yr voice</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;">once made me crumble</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;">like bleu cheese yr smell</span></span></span></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;">captured me like a pirate</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;">i couldn’t escape my husband</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;">yr wife called to tell me</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;">you’re dying to see me cry</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;">at the sight of you hooked</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;">up to intravenous tubes yr</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;">eyes half closed you whisper</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;">“blonde i can’t forget you</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;">backlit by the brooklyn bridge’’</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;">i take yr hand & yr fingers grasp</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;">mine the way an infant does</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;">instinctively i want to tell you</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;">it wasn’t me by the bridge but</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;">you smile teeth missing trouble</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;">breathing say again, ‘’blonde</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;">i’ll never forget,’’ oh how i</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;">adored you broke my heart</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;">remembers who do you have</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;">me confused with my name</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;">say it i say in my head but not</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;">out loud living & you are going</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;">quietly yr wife enters the room</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;">tells me you’re tired unfinished</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;">business remains i hear you</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;">mutter ‘’backlit blonde’’ as i</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;">leave sunday night 11:14 yr </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;">wife calls, ‘’he’s dead, ‘’ she says</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;">it’s finished but now not for me</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;">on my last afternoon of breathing</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;">i will remember you glistening on</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;">yr norton atlas teeth white</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;">as supermodel chicklets </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;">forearms like a popeye cartoon</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;">you are backlit in bayville</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;">it was you, wasn’t it?</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="color: black;">i will say yr name</span> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></span>
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<span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">PRISON POEM #32 </span></span></span></div>
<strong><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">‘’To love without role, without power plays,
is revolution.’’</span></strong><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br /><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
</span></b><strong><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
–Rita Mae Brown</span></strong><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">i drive the long,
dangerous journey<br />
you shower, put on your clean clothes<br />
& wait for us to arrive with books,<br />
sometimes vegetables, depending on<br />
what we can afford this month<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span><br /></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">i wait on line with
all those<br />
other women who work to keep<br />
home together long hours<br />
raise children strong as the<br />
bars in this cold prison<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">after we’ve walked
through<br />
the four electric gates<br />
our men will enter one at<br />
a time we’ll be blossoms<br />
soft and perfumed and<br />
bring them coffee, honey, sandwiches<br />
they will warm the food, set the table<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">in a blur stealing
intimacies<br />
i touch you touch she rubs<br />
he sighs robbing smells textures<br />
to last until the next visit<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">sometimes i bury your
head<br />
in my breasts you find<br />
comfort me in your arms<br />
all is well no roles<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">in this love, my
darling<br />
all the pins have been<br />
pulled from the grenades<br />
no matter how long we<br />
must wait we will<br />
continue the revolution<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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Old Fitzroy - - Dreaming blues, karlos?http://www.blogger.com/profile/16126705814934586860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3095588560139397755.post-3618825481440819242014-01-25T13:44:00.001+11:002014-01-25T16:11:43.234+11:00Kaddish . . . for Naomi<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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triumphant stanzas aloud--wept, realizing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seventh Avenue, the battlements
of window office buildings shoul-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>dering each other high, under a
cloud, tall as the sky an instant--and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the sky above--an old blue
place.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">or down the Avenue to the south, to--as I walk toward the Lower East
Side<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>--where you walked 50 years ago, little
girl--from Russia, eating the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>first poisonous tomatoes of
America frightened on the dock <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">then struggling in the crowds of Orchard Street toward what?--toward<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Newark--<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">toward candy store, first home-made sodas of the century, hand-churned
ice <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>cream in backroom on musty
brownfloor boards--<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Toward education marriage nervous breakdown, operation, teaching school,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and learning to be mad, in a
dream--what is this life?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Toward the Key in the window--and the great Key lays its head of light<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>on top of Manhattan, and over
the floor, and lays down on the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>sidewalk--in a single vast
beam, moving, as I walk down First toward<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the Yiddish Theater--and the
place of poverty<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">you knew, and I know, but without caring now--Strange to have moved<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>thru Paterson, and the West,
and Europe and here again,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">with the cries of Spaniards now in the doorstops doors and dark boys on<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the street, fire escapes old as
you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">--Tho you're not old now, that's left here with me--<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Myself, anyhow, maybe as old as the universe--and I guess that dies with<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>us--enough to cancel all that
comes--What came is gone forever<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>every time--<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">That's good!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That leaves it open
for no regret--no fear radiators, lacklove,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>torture even toothache in the
end--<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Though while it comes it is a lion that eats the soul--and the lamb, the
soul,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in us, alas, offering itself in
sacrifice to change's fierce hunger--hair <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and teeth--and the roar of
bonepain, skull bare, break rib, rot-skin,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>braintricked Implacability.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Ai! ai!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>we do worse! We are in a
fix!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And you're out, Death let you out,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Death had the Mercy, you're
done with your century, done with <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God, done with the path thru
it--Done with yourself at last--Pure<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>--Back to the Babe dark before
your Father, before us all--before the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>world--<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">There, rest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No more suffering
for you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know where you've gone, it's
good.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">No more flowers in the summer fields of New York, no joy now, no more <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">and no more of his sweetness and glasses, his high school decades,
debts,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>loves, frightened telephone
calls, conception beds, relatives, hands--<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">No more of sister Elanor,--she gone before you--we kept it secret you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>killed her--or she killed
herself to bear with you--an arthritic heart<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>--But Death's killed you
both--No matter--<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Nor your memory of your mother, 1915 tears in silent movies weeks and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>weeks--forgetting, agrieve
watching Marie Dressler address human-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ity, Chaplin dance in youth,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">or Boris Godunov, Chaliapin's at the Met, halling his voice of a weeping
Czar<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>--by standing room with Elanor
& Max--watching also the Capital <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ists take seats in Orchestra,
white furs, diamonds,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">with the YPSL's hitch-hiking thru Pennsylvania, in black baggy gym
skirts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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holding each other round the waste, and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>laughing eye, too coy, virginal
solitude of 1920<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">all girls grown old, or dead now, and that long hair in the grave--lucky
to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>have husbands later--<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">You made it--I came too--Eugene my brother before (still grieving now
and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>will gream on to his last stiff
hand, as he goes thru his cancer--or kill<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>--later perhaps--soon he will
think--)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">And it's the last moment I remember, which I see them all, thru myself,
now<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>--tho not you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">I didn't foresee what you felt--what more hideous gape of bad mouth came
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>first--to you--and were you
prepared?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">To go where?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In that
Dark--that--in that God? a radiance? A Lord in the <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Void?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like an eye in the black cloud in a
dream?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Adonoi at last, with<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>you?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Beyond my remembrance! Incapable to guess! Not merely the yellow skull<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in the grave, or a box of worm
dust, and a stained ribbon--Deaths-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>head with Halo?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>can you believe it?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Is it only the sun that shines once for the mind, only the flash of
existence,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>than none ever was?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Nothing beyond what we have--what you had--that so pitiful--yet Tri-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>umph,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">to have been here, and changed, like a tree, broken, or flower--fed to
the <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ground--but made, with its
petals, colored, thinking Great Universe, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>shaken, cut in the head, leaf
stript, hid in an egg crate hospital, cloth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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moon brain, Naughtless.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">No flower like that flower, which knew itself in the garden, and fought
the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>knife--lost<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Cut down by an idiot Snowman's icy--even in the Spring--strange ghost <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>thought some--Death--Sharp
icicle in his hand--crowned with old<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>roses--a dog for his eyes--cock
of a sweatshop--heart of electric<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>irons.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">All the accumulations of life, that wear us out--clocks, bodies,
consciousness,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>shoes, breasts--begotten
sons--your Communism--'Paranoia' into<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>hospitals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">You once kicked Elanor in the leg, she died of heart failure later.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You of <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>stroke.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Asleep?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>within a year, the two of you, sisters in death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Elanor happy?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Max grieves alive in an office on Lower Broadway, lone large mustache
over<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>midnight Accountings, not
sure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His life passes--as he sees--and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>what does he doubt now?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Still dream of making money, or that might <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>have made money, hired nurse,
had children, found even your Im-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>mortality, Naomi?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">I'll see him soon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now I've got
to cut through to talk to you as I didn't<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>when you had a mouth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Forever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And we're bound for
that, Forever like Emily Dickinson's horses<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>--headed to the End.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">They know the way--These Steeds--run faster than we think--it's our own<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>life they cross--and take with
them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Magnificent, mourned no more,
marred of heart, mind behind, mar-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">ried dreamed, mortal changed--Ass and face done with murder.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the world, given, flower
maddened, made no Utopia, shut under<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">pine, almed in Earth, blamed in Lone, Jehovah, accept.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nameless, One Faced, Forever
beyond me, beginningless, endless,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Father in death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tho I am not
there for this Prophecy, I am unmarried, I'm<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">hymnless, I'm Heavenless, headless in blisshood I would still adore<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thee, Heaven, after Death, only
One blessed in Nothingness, not<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">light or darkness, Dayless Eternity--<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Take this, this Psalm, from me,
burst from my hand in a day, some<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">of my Time, now given to Nothing--to praise Thee--But Death<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the end, the redemption
from Wilderness, way for the Won-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Courier New"; line-height: 150%;"><b>One night you fled to high
mountain passes<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Courier New"; line-height: 150%;"><b>howling winds adrift with
snow and ice <o:p></o:p></b></span><br />
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Courier New"; line-height: 150%;"><b>body broken betoken of empty
fields<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></b></span><br />
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Courier New"; line-height: 150%;"><b>In the valley below<o:p></o:p></b></span><br />
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Courier New"; line-height: 150%;"><b>The ‘lights went out one by
one, <o:p></o:p></b></span><br />
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Courier New"; line-height: 150%;"><b>and darkness all around’ <o:p></o:p></b></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Courier New"; line-height: 150%;"><b>set the flame to burn
unchained, <o:p></o:p></b></span><br />
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Courier New"; line-height: 150%;"><b>your wounded angel-wings <o:p></o:p></b></span><br />
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Courier New"; line-height: 150%;"><b> carried you <o:p></o:p></b></span><br />
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Courier New"; line-height: 150%;"><b> above </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New;"> (</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">what price the passage?)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span><br />
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</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: small;">this road I’ve travelled with you <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></span></div>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">had many blind turns and twists <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></span><br />
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">the beginnings long gone </span></span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b> with the dead<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></span><br />
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">beginning back as a young buck</span></span></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b> its all </b></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>(for protection ?)</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">as if I needed it or maybe I did<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">no oblique allusions of sensibility <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> is </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">get through </span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">the night <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></b><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><strong>Me Too </strong></span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><strong> </strong><span style="color: #990000;"><b>for Dick Mendola</b></span>, dec '13</span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">desolation angels</span></span><br />
</b><b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">holy ghost</span></span></b></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">bind my days up</span></span></b></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b><b style="line-height: 150%;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">I got them </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">black snake</span></b></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><strong>Blues for Shelton</strong> </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><b>you were like a beautiful
flower<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">the colours faded a little <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span><br />
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">bringing out your
delicacy </span></span></b></span><br />
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br /></b>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">magenta of the
Tibetan steppes <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span><br />
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">that was the garland for you<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span><br />
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">though of course you were
Welsh.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">there was a fragrance about
you <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b><br />
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">that lifted the senses in company<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span><br />
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">seemingly effortlessly </span></span></b></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">like an
eagle </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">cruising </span></span></b><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>perhaps </b></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>who knows </b></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><b>maybe </b></span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><b>up there with my
other bro <o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">from down Lake Condah way</span></span></b></span><br />
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></span><br /></b>
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><b>tonight we wont say too much </b></span></span></span><br />
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">of </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">the Dark Angels proximity.</span></span></span></b><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><b>but not without neurotic
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">scanning </span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">bottomless subterranean streams <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></b><br />
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">and phantom </span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">connections <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></b><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><b>through open
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><b>sharing the silences
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">feeling solace </span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">in distant
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">feels good against my<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>legs</span></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">I’m doing ok I could say <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">hard times and joys along the way</span></span></span></span></b></span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><b>beyond the
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><b>stirring old familiar pain <o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">I was sitting alone </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">drinking </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>agh FUCK</b> </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"></span></div>
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Old Fitzroy - - Dreaming blues, karlos?http://www.blogger.com/profile/16126705814934586860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3095588560139397755.post-7409059892112244472013-04-17T23:59:00.000+10:002014-09-12T17:05:48.426+10:00Marilynne Robinson: God & Modern Life . . .<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">I read somewhere that Terry Gilmore mentioned how impressed by "Gillead" by Marilyn Robinson he was; </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">I went out and got her "Housekeeping" (then others) what a writer.</span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"> </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"> karlos</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“ When
Marilynne Robinson published her first novel, <em><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Housekeeping</span></em>, in 1980, she was unknown in the literary
world. But an early review in <em><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The New
York Times</span></em> ensured that the book would be noticed. “It’s as if, in
writing it, she broke through the ordinary human condition with all its
dissatisfactions, and achieved a kind of transfiguration,” wrote Anatole
Broyard, with an enthusiasm and awe that was shared by many critics and
readers. The book became a classic, and Robinson was hailed as one of the
defining American writers of our time. Yet it would be more than twenty years
before she wrote another novel.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Paris
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</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #666666; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Andrew Brown:</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Some fruits of an interview with Marilynne Robinson</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There are two remarkable things about </span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/marilynne-robinson" title="More from guardian.co.uk on Marilynne Robinson"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">Marilynne Robinson</span></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">,
who won the Orange Prize for </span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/fiction" title="More from guardian.co.uk on Fiction"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">fiction</span></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">:
she's a very good writer, and she's a very serious Christian. Her two most
recent novels. </span><a href="http://www.librarything.com/work/16914"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">Gilead</span></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">
and </span><a href="http://www.librarything.com/work/5056952"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">Home</span></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, have
retold the story of the Prodigal Son from different viewpoints, set in a small
town on the Iowa prairie in 1956. "Retelling" is not what you think
when first you read them; then the overwhelming effect is of being told a
story, and hearing a voice, for the very first time. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But both are, in fact, books about the workings of grace in human life,
just as Brideshead was. But they are Calvinist, not Roman Catholic, and their
pleasures are very much more humble; also, I think, more vivid. Towards the end
of Gilead an old pastor talks about the world around him:<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I love the prairie! So often I have seen the dawn come and the light flood
over the land and everything turn radiant at once, that word "good"
so profoundly affirmed in my soul that I am amazed I should be allowed to
witness such a thing. There may have been a more wonderful first moment
"when all the morning stars sang together and the sons of God shouted for
joy" but for all I know to the contrary, they still do sing and shout and
they certainly might well. Here on the prairie there is nothing to distract
attention from the evening and the morning, nothing on the horizon to
abbreviate or delay. Mountains would seem an impertinence from that point of
view.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The link between joy and beauty and the apprehension of God is one which is
very vivid in Robinson. I interviewed her last week in Geneva, as part of a
Radio 3 programme I am presenting on Calvin (Smashing the Idols goes out on
August 30); and she gave an extraordinary justification of Calvinist </span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/christianity" title="More from guardian.co.uk on Christianity"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">Christianity</span></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">
as making possible the modern novel. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"One of the things that has really struck me, reading Calvin,"
she said then, "is what a strong sense he has that the aesthetic is the
signature of the divine. If someone in some sense lives a life that we can
perceive as beautiful in its own way, that is something that suggests grace,
even if by a strict moral standard ... they might seem to fail."<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Now this is just about the opposite of the kind of rule-bound and wholly
unforgiving </span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/religion" title="More from guardian.co.uk on Religion"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">religion</span></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">
which most people associate with Calvinism, but in her mind it was linked with predestination,
in a most unexpected way. Because predestination implies God's untramelled
freedom, he can choose to save those whom the world and its rules – even the
church with its rules – might condemn. The prodigal in these two books, Jack
Boughton, has done some very terrible things, and all through the book goes on
hurting everyone who loves him. Yet it is almost impossible not to suffer with
him. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I wanted very much, when I wrote the character of Jack, [to create] a
character whom it would be very painful for people to be able to dismiss, with
the assumption being that if one could not dismiss him, there would be no
reason to believe that God would want to dismiss him, either.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This kind of explicitly theological perspective is vanishingly rare in modern
novels. But she shouldn't for a moment be confused with the kind of cheesy
wish-fulfilment marketed in "christian" bookshops. Grace, hope, and
love break into her novels, but the veil always returns and the world appears
again in its accustomed hopelessness. Sometimes the sadness is almost
unendurable. I have sat on a commuter train weeping in public as I reread the
end of Home. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Perhaps a serious recognition of the misery of the world is at the heart of
her aesthetic purpose. Just before talking about the prairie, John Ames, the
old pastor I quoted earlier, says this: <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There are two occasions when the sacred beauty of Creation becomes
dazzlingly apparent, and they occur together. One is when we feel our mortal
insufficiency to the world, and the other is when we feel the world's mortal
insufficiency to us. Augustine says the Lord loves each of us as an only child,
and that has to be true. "He will wipe the tears from all faces." It
takes nothing from the loveliness of the verse to say that is exactly what will
be required.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What does matter, though, in a religious context, is that she wouldn't
distinguish between the aesthetic and the theological purpose:<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Calvin made the inner life fantastically interesting, because he asserts
that it is the clearest model we have of the nature of God … You know, he says,
"to find God, descend into yourself." We can know God because we
share qualities that Calvin attributes to God … It's the brilliance of the
mind, the brilliance of the senses and so on that is the great demonstration of
the divinity of man.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Calvin, she says, when he translated psalm eight, did not write that man
was little lower than the angels, but that he was only a little lower than God.
Part of that was his iconoclasm, and his eagerness to sweep away all the
mediaeval accretions that humanised the faith of the desert fathers; but much
of the impulse also was to sweep away everything that separated man from God,
so that we could stand as close to him as a separate nature allows. The novel,
then, bringing the glory and the sadness of the world into our eyes until
they're full to overflowing also bring God there.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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Old Fitzroy - - Dreaming blues, karlos?http://www.blogger.com/profile/16126705814934586860noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3095588560139397755.post-64001839584586078142013-03-21T22:45:00.000+11:002013-03-21T22:54:03.930+11:00The Money Masters<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is one of the most interesting documentary movies you will ever see; how the modern financial system developed since 1600 Venice and the Medicis, and how the Global community are enslaved to a cabal at the very top of the heap. If you are afraid to have the scales fall away from your sight . . . do not watch this movie.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #000099; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">The Money Masters is a 3 1/2 hour non-fiction, historical
documentary that traces the origins of the political power structure. The
modern political power structure has its roots in the hidden manipulation and
accumulation of gold and other forms of money. The development of fractional
reserve banking practices in the 17th century brought to a cunning
sophistication the secret techniques initially used by goldsmiths fraudulently
to accumulate wealth. With the formation of the privately-owned Bank of England
in 1694, the yoke of economic slavery to a privately-owned central bank was
first forced upon the backs of an entire nation, not removed but only made heavier
with the passing of the three centuries to our day. Nation after nation has
fallen prey to this cabal of international central bankers.</span><span lang="EN" style="color: #000099; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<b><i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></o:p></span></i></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b><i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The Money Masters</span></i></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> is a 1996 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US" title="US"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">American</span></a> documentary film, directed and narrated by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Still" title="Bill Still"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">William T.
"Bill" Still</span></a> and produced by attorney Patrick S. J.
Carmack, which discusses the concepts of money, debt and taxes, and describes
their development from biblical times onward. It covers the history of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional-reserve_banking" title="Fractional-reserve banking"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">fractional-reserve banking</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_banking" title="Central banking"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">central
banking</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monetary_policy" title="Monetary policy"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">monetary policy</span></a>, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond_(finance)" title="Bond (finance)"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">bond</span></a>
market, and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_System" title="Federal Reserve System"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Federal Reserve System</span></a> in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">United States</span></a>.
The film, which is widely available online, was followed by <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_of_Oz" title="The Secret of Oz"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">The Secret of
Oz</span></a></i> (2009).<sup id="cite_ref-2"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></sup></span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The film makers posit that the practice of fractional
reserve banking, allowing banks to loan out 10 times the money they have on
deposit, the central banks' ability to contract and expand the money supply,
and the will of the bankers, largely in Europe, to do so is the root of all
economic distress in America and the world. It further argues that this
situation should be remedied so that the buying power of money can be
stabilized, benefiting the public good, as during four periods in the history
of the United States, especially those periods when money was not tied to gold
and the money supply was in U.S. public hands. Finally it presents a proposed
piece of legislation, the Monetary Reform Act, to implement such a remedy. As
support, the film provides many quotations from notable figures including </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economist" title="Economist"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">economists</span></span></a><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">,
members of the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_system" title="Financial system"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">financial system</span></span></a><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_monarchy" title="British monarchy"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">kings of
England</span></span></a><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">United States presidents</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The film criticizes </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional-reserve_banking" title="Fractional-reserve banking"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">fractional-reserve banking</span></span></a><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and the control
aspects of both modern banking regulation and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_bank" title="Central bank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">centralized
banking</span></span></a><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> systems such as the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_System" title="Federal Reserve System"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Federal Reserve System</span></span></a><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. It describes the
history of money and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banking" title="Banking"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">banking</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">, how central banks came to be and how they operate.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The film describes how the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress" title="United States Congress"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">U.S. Congress</span></span></a><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> gave the power of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_creation" title="Money creation"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">money
creation</span></span></a><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> to private banks through the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_Act" title="Federal Reserve Act"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Federal Reserve Act</span></span></a><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and how the banks
accumulate large amounts of interest using this power. It asserts that wealth
is slowly being drawn into the hands of a small banking elite at the expense of
the general population. This can be seen through such events as the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Tuesday" title="Black Tuesday"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1929 stock
market crash</span></span></a><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> when a </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broker%27s_call" title="Broker's call"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">broker's call</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">
was issued, triggering the crash which further solidified the power of the
Federal Reserve.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The film argues that there is no publicly owned gold left
in </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Knox" title="Fort Knox"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fort Knox</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The film also asserts that the Federal Reserve System
enables private banks to force </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recession" title="Recession"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">recessions</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"> at will by refusing to offer new loans while
simultaneously demanding payment on existing loans. It asserts that this power
has been used a number of times since the 1913 creation of the Federal Reserve.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The film
asserts or implies that bankers have intentionally caused, exploited, or
profited from the circumstances surrounding a number of significant events,
including </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Abraham_Lincoln" title="Assassination of Abraham Lincoln"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Abraham Lincoln's assassination</span></span></a><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">,
the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_1812" title="War of 1812"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">War of 1812</span></span></a><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">,
the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Waterloo" title="Battle of Waterloo"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Battle of Waterloo</span></span></a><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">American Civil War</span></span></a><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution_(1917)" title="Russian Revolution (1917)"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Russian Revolution</span></span></a><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Depression" title="The Great Depression"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the Great Depression</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The film asserts that by the end of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">World War I</span></span></a><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">,
private banks owned and controlled much of the United States' newspaper, news
magazine, and film outlets and that they achieved this using consolidated
wealth generated by fractional-reserve banking. It argues that these banks have
influence over the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainstream_media" title="Mainstream media"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">mainstream media</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"> through their ownership and
that this influence is used to prevent criticism of the financial monopoly from
entering the general public's consciousness.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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standard will not solve the economic crisis. The scarcity of gold means it is
one of the easiest commodities to manipulate. Attempts have been made to outlaw
silver, such as the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coinage_Act_of_1873" title="Coinage Act of 1873"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Coinage Act of 1873</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">, which caused outrage and
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poet’s life and work, the desire to rebel against whatever milieu he happened
to find himself in—the schoolboy against school, the wunderkind against his
admiring hosts, the poet against poetry—undoubtedly accounts for his particular
appeal to teen-agers. (One statistic that Rimbaldians like to cite is that one
in five French <i>lycéens </i>today claims to identify with the long-dead
poet.) A striking feature of many of the translations and biographies of
Rimbaud is the seemingly inevitable prefatory remark, on the part of the
translator or biographer, about the moment when he or she first discovered the
poet. “When I was sixteen, in 1956, I discovered Rimbaud,” Edmund White recalls
at the start of his nimble “Rimbaud: The Double Life of a Rebel,” by far the
best introduction to the poet’s life and work; Graham Robb observes early on
that “for many readers (including this one), the revelation of Rimbaud’s poetry
is one of the decisive events of adolescence.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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as was Patti Smith, the author of what is, perhaps, the most moving testament
to the effect that a reading of Rimbaud might have on a hungry young mind.
“When I was sixteen, working in a non-union factory in a small South Jersey
town,” she writes in an introduction to “The Anchor Anthology of French
Poetry,” “my salvation and respite from my dismal surroundings was a battered
copy of Arthur Rimbaud’s <i>Illuminations</i>, which I kept in my back pocket.”
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the bible of your life are inversely proportional to the age at which you first
discover him. I recently did an informal survey among some well-read
acquaintances, and the e-mail I received from a ninety-year-old friend fairly
sums up the consensus. “I loved Rimbaud poems when I read the Norman Cameron
translations in 1942,” she wrote—Cameron’s translation, my favorite, too, is
among the very few in English that try to reproduce Rimbaud’s rhymes—but she
added, “I have quite lost what it was that so thrilled me.” In 1942, my friend
was twenty-one. I was twice that age when I first started to read Rimbaud
seriously, and, although I found much that dazzled and impressed me, I couldn’t
get swept away—couldn’t feel those feelings again, the urgency, the orneriness,
the rebellion. I don’t say this with pride. Time passes, people change; it’s
just the way things are. On the day before his death, a delirious Rimbaud
dictated a letter to the head of an imaginary shipping company, urgently
requesting passage to Suez. Sometimes, for whatever reason, you miss the boat .
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Enfant, certains ciels ont affiné mon optique, tous les caractères
nuancèrent ma physionomie. Les phénomènes s'émurent. À présent l'inflexion
éternelle des moments de l'infini des mathématiques me chassent par ce monde où
je subis tous les succès civils, respecté de l'enfance étrange et des
affections énormes. Je songe à une guerre, de droit ou de force, de logique
bien imprévue.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-ansi-language: FR;">C'est aussi simple qu'une phrase musicale.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><span style="color: #073763;">child of
rebellion and betrayal <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #073763;">pack raped at fifteen by soldiers <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #073763;">on the barricades <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #073763;">of the Paris Commune<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><span style="color: #073763;">legend of
other’s hooligan dreams<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">later, you said<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>. . .</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><span style="color: #073763;">those silly
words the carnival idiocies <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><span style="color: #073763;">phrases you held
so dear <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><span style="color: #073763;">Puke Songs &
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hell’s Reasons<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><span style="color: #073763;">oblique trills <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><span style="color: #073763;">floated as effluent
for the dunking <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><span style="color: #073763;">in your petite
bohemian visions<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><span style="color: #073763;">I wished to put
away all that nonsense<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><span style="color: #073763;">yes - it’s true <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><span style="color: #073763;">I met that
Desolation Angel<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><span style="color: #073763;">on those burning
sands<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><span style="color: #073763;">as if freedom was
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karl Gallagher<br />
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Old Fitzroy - - Dreaming blues, karlos?http://www.blogger.com/profile/16126705814934586860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3095588560139397755.post-35500525427507715582013-01-09T00:59:00.001+11:002013-02-05T23:37:38.104+11:00Kabir - weaver and poet<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Kabîr, a selection from whose songs is here for the first time offered to
English readers, is one of the most interesting personalities in the history of
Indian mysticism. Born in or near Benares, of Mohammedan parents, and probably
about the year 1440, be became in early life a disciple of the celebrated Hindu
ascetic Râmânanda. Râmânanda had brought to Northern India the religious
revival which Râmânuja, the great twelfth-century reformer of Brâhmanism, had
initiated in the South. This revival was in part a reaction against the
increasing formalism of the orthodox cult, in part an assertion of the demands
of the heart as against the intense intellectualism of the Vedânta philosophy,
the exaggerated monism which that philosophy proclaimed. It took in Râmânuja's preaching
the form of an ardent personal devotion to the God Vishnu, as representing the
personal aspect of the Divine Nature: that mystical "religion of
love" which everywhere makes its appearance at a certain level of
spiritual culture, and which creeds and philosophies are powerless to kill.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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such a devotion is indigenous in Hinduism, and finds expression in many
passages of the Bhagavad Gîtâ, there was in its mediæval revival a large
element of syncretism. Râmânanda, through whom its spirit is said to have
reached Kabîr, appears to have been a man of wide religious culture, and full
of missionary enthusiasm. Living at the moment in which the impassioned poetry
and deep philosophy of the great Persian mystics, Attâr, Sâdî, Jalâlu'ddîn
Rûmî, and Hâfiz, were exercising a powerful influence on the religious thought
of India, he dreamed of reconciling this intense and personal Mohammedan
mysticism with the traditional theology of Brâhmanism. Some have regarded both
these great religious leaders as influenced also by Christian thought and life:
but as this is a point upon which competent authorities hold widely divergent
views, its discussion is not attempted here. We may safely assert, however,
that in their teachings, two—perhaps three—apparently antagonistic streams of
intense spiritual culture met, as Jewish and Hellenistic thought met in the
early Christian Church: and it is one of the outstanding characteristics of
Kabîr's genius that he was able in his poems to fuse them into one.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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religious reformer, the founder of a sect to which nearly a million northern
Hindus still belong, it is yet supremely as a mystical poet that Kabîr lives
for us. His fate has been that of many revealers of Reality. A hater of
religious exclusivism, and seeking above all things to initiate men into the
liberty of the children of God, his followers have honoured his memory by
re-erecting in a new place the barriers which he laboured to cast down. But his
wonderful songs survive, the spontaneous expressions of his vision and his
love; and it is by these, not by the didactic teachings associated with his
name, that he makes his immortal appeal to the heart. In these poems a wide
range of mystical emotion is brought into play: from the loftiest abstractions,
the most otherworldly passion for the Infinite, to the most intimate and
personal realization of God, expressed in homely metaphors and religious
symbols drawn indifferently from Hindu and Mohammedan belief. It is impossible
to say of their author that he was Brâhman or Sûfî, Vedântist or Vaishnavite.
He is, as he says himself, "at once the child of Allah and of Râm."
That Supreme Spirit Whom he knew and adored, and to Whose joyous friendship he
sought to induct the souls of other men, transcended whilst He included all metaphysical
categories, all credal definitions; yet each contributed something to the
description of that Infinite and Simple Totality Who revealed Himself,
according to their measure, to the faithful lovers of all creeds.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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story is surrounded by contradictory legends, on none of which reliance can be
placed. Some of these emanate from a Hindu, some from a Mohammedan source, and
claim him by turns as a Sûfî and a Brâhman saint. His name, however, is
practically a conclusive proof of Moslem ancestry: and the most probable tale
is that which represents him as the actual or adopted child of a Mohammedan
weaver of Benares, the city in which the chief events of his life took place.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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fifteenth-century Benares the syncretistic tendencies of Bhakti religion had
reached full development. Sûfîs and Brâhmans appear to have met in disputation:
the most spiritual members of both creeds frequenting the teachings of
Râmânanda, whose reputation was then at its height. The boy Kabîr, in whom the
religious passion was innate, saw in Râmânanda his destined teacher; but knew
how slight were the chances that a Hindu guru would accept a Mohammedan as
disciple. He therefore hid upon the steps of the river Ganges, where Râmânanda
was accustomed to bathe; with the result that the master, coming down to the
water, trod upon his body unexpectedly, and exclaimed in his astonishment,
"Ram! Ram!"—the name of the incarnation under which he worshipped
God. Kabîr then declared that he had received the mantra of initiation from
Râmânanda's lips, and was by it admitted to discipleship. In spite of the
protests of orthodox Brâhmans and Mohammedans, both equally annoyed by this
contempt of theological landmarks, he persisted in his claim; thus exhibiting
in action that very principle of religious synthesis which Râmânanda had sought
to establish in thought. Râmânanda appears to have accepted him, and though
Mohammedan legends speak of the famous Sûfî Pîr, Takkî of Jhansî, as Kabîr's
master in later life, the Hindu saint is the only human teacher to whom in his
songs he acknowledges indebtedness.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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little that we know of Kabîr's life contradicts many current ideas concerning
the Oriental mystic. Of the stages of discipline through which he passed, the
manner in which his spiritual genius developed, we are completely ignorant. He
seems to have remained for years the disciple of Râmânanda, joining in the
theological and philosophical arguments which his master held with all the
great Mullahs and Brâhmans of his day; and to this source we may perhaps trace
his acquaintance with the terms of Hindu and Sûfî philosophy. He may or may not
have submitted to the traditional education of the Hindu or the Sûfî
contemplative: it is clear, at any rate, that he never adopted the life of the
professional ascetic, or retired from the world in order to devote himself to
bodily mortifications and the exclusive pursuit of the contemplative life. Side
by side with his interior life of adoration, its artistic expression in music
and words—for he was a skilled musician as well as a poet—he lived the sane and
diligent life of the Oriental craftsman. All the legends agree on this point:
that Kabîr was a weaver, a simple and unlettered man, who earned his living at
the loom. Like Paul the tentmaker, Boehme the cobbler, Bunyan the tinker,
Tersteegen the ribbon-maker, he knew how to combine vision and industry; the
work of his hands helped rather than hindered the impassioned meditation of his
heart. Hating mere bodily austerities, he was no ascetic, but a married man, the
father of a family—a circumstance which Hindu legends of the monastic type
vainly attempt to conceal or explain—and it was from out of the heart of the
common life that he sang his rapturous lyrics of divine love. Here his works
corroborate the traditional story of his life. Again and again he extols the
life of home, the value and reality of diurnal existence, with its
opportunities for love and renunciation; pouring contempt—upon the professional
sanctity of the Yogi, who "has a great beard and matted locks, and looks
like a goat," and on all who think it necessary to flee a world pervaded
by love, joy, and beauty—the proper theatre of man's quest—in order to find
that One Reality Who has "spread His form of love throughout all the
world." <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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not need much experience of ascetic literature to recognize the boldness and
originality of this attitude in such a time and place. From the point of view
of orthodox sanctity, whether Hindu or Mohammedan, Kabîr was plainly a heretic;
and his frank dislike of all institutional religion, all external
observance—which was as thorough and as intense as that of the Quakers
themselves—completed, so far as ecclesiastical opinion was concerned, his
reputation as a dangerous man. The "simple union" with Divine Reality
which he perpetually extolled, as alike the duty and the joy of every soul, was
independent both of ritual and of bodily austerities; the God whom he
proclaimed was "neither in Kaaba nor in Kailâsh." Those who sought
Him needed not to go far; for He awaited discovery everywhere, more accessible
to "the washerwoman and the carpenter" than to the self—righteous
holy man. Therefore the whole apparatus of piety, Hindu and Moslem alike—the
temple and mosque, idol and holy water, scriptures and priests—were denounced
by this inconveniently clear-sighted poet as mere substitutes for reality; dead
things intervening between the soul and its love—<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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The images are all lifeless, they cannot speak:<br />
I know, for I have cried aloud to them.<br />
The Purâna and the Koran are mere words:<br />
lifting up the curtain, I have seen.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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of thing cannot be tolerated by any organized church; and it is not surprising
that Kabîr, having his head-quarters in Benares, the very centre of priestly
influence, was subjected to considerable persecution. The well-known legend of
the beautiful courtesan sent by Brâhmans to tempt his virtue, and converted,
like the Magdalen, by her sudden encounter with the initiate of a higher love,
pre serves the memory of the fear and dislike with which he was regarded by the
ecclesiastical powers. Once at least, after the performance of a supposed
miracle of healing, he was brought before the Emperor Sikandar Lodi, and
charged with claiming the possession of divine powers. But Sikandar Lodi, a
ruler of considerable culture, was tolerant of the eccentricities of saintly
persons belonging to his own faith. Kabîr, being of Mohammedan birth, was
outside the authority of the Brâhmans, and technically classed with the Sûfîs,
to whom great theological latitude was allowed. Therefore, though he was
banished in the interests of peace from Benares, his life was spared. This
seems to have happened in 1495, when he was nearly sixty years of age; it is
the last event in his career of which we have definite knowledge. Thenceforth
he appears to have moved about amongst various cities of northern India, the
centre of a group of disciples; continuing in exile that life of apostle and
poet of love to which, as he declares in one of his songs, he was destined
"from the beginning of time." In 1518, an old man, broken in health,
and with hands so feeble that he could no longer make the music which he loved,
he died at Maghar near Gorakhpur.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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beautiful legend tells us that after his death his Mohammedan and Hindu
disciples disputed the possession of his body; which the Mohammedans wished to
bury, the Hindus to burn. As they argued together, Kabîr appeared before them,
and told them to lift the shroud and look at that which lay beneath. They did
so, and found in the place of the corpse a heap of flowers; half of which were
buried by the Mohammedans at Maghar, and half carried by the Hindus to the holy
city of Benares to be burned—fitting conclusion to a life which had made
fragrant the most beautiful doctrines of two great creeds.</span></span></div>
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the simple union is the best. Since the day when I met<br />
with my Lord, there has been no end to the sport of our love.<br />
I shut not my eyes, I close not my ears, I do not mortify my<br />
body;<br />
I see with eyes open and smile, and behold His beauty everywhere:<br />
I utter His Name, and whatever I see, it reminds me of Him;<br />
whatever I do., it becomes His worship.<br />
The rising and the setting are one to me; all contradictions are<br />
solved.<br />
Wherever I go, I move round Him,<br />
All I achieve is His service:<br />
When I lie down, I lie prostrate at His feet.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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only adorable one to me: I have none other.<br />
My tongue has left off impure words, it sings His glory day and<br />
night:<br />
Whether I rise or sit down, I can never forget Him; for the<br />
rhythm of His music beats in my ears.<br />
Kabîr says: "My heart is frenzied, and I disclose in my soul what<br />
is hidden. I am immersed in that one great bliss which<br />
transcends all pleasure and pain."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="color: #660000;">Subtle is
the path of love!<br />
Therein there is no asking and no not-asking,<br />
There one loses one's self at His feet,<br />
There one is immersed in the joy of the seeking: plunged in the<br />
deeps of love as the fish in the water.<br />
The lover is never slow in offering his head for his Lord's<br />
service.<br />
Kabîr declares the secret of this love.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="color: #660000;">He is the
real Sadhu, who can reveal the form of the Formless to<br />
the vision of these eyes:<br />
Who teaches the simple way of attaining Him, that is other than<br />
rites or ceremonies:<br />
Who does not make you close the doors, and hold the breath, and<br />
renounce the world:<br />
Who makes you perceive the Supreme Spirit wherever the mind<br />
attaches itself:<br />
Who teaches you to be still in the midst of all your activities.<br />
Ever immersed in bliss, having no fear in his mind, he keeps the<br />
spirit of union in the midst of all enjoyments.<br />
The infinite dwelling of the Infinite Being is everywhere: in<br />
earth, water, sky, and air:<br />
Firm as the thunderbolt, the seat of the seeker is established<br />
above the void.<br />
He who is within is without: I see Him and none else.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Word from which the Universe springeth!<br />
That word is the Guru; I have heard it, and become the disciple.<br />
How many are there who know the meaning of that word?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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practise that Word!<br />
The Vedas and the Puranas proclaim it,<br />
The world is established in it,<br />
The Rishis and devotees speak of it:<br />
But none knows the mystery of the Word.<br />
The householder leaves his house when he hears it,<br />
The ascetic comes back to love when he hears it,<br />
The Six Philosophies expound it,<br />
The Spirit of Renunciation points to that Word,<br />
From that Word the world-form has sprung,<br />
That Word reveals all.<br />
Kabîr says: "But who knows whence the Word cometh?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Hidden Banner is planted in the temple of the sky; there the<br />
blue canopy decked with the moon and set with bright jewels is<br />
spread.<br />
There the light of the sun and the moon is shining: still your<br />
mind to silence before that splendour.<br />
Kabîr says: "He who has drunk of this nectar, wanders like one<br />
who is mad."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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nothing but water at the holy bathing places; and I know<br />
that they are useless, for I have bathed in them.<br />
The images are all lifeless, they cannot speak; I know, for I<br />
have cried aloud to them.<br />
The Purana and the Koran are mere words; lifting up the curtain,<br />
I have seen.<br />
Kabîr gives utterance to the words of experience; and he knows<br />
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If Brahma helps me to realize truth, verily I will find both<br />
bondage and deliverance in home.<br />
He is dear to me indeed who has power to dive deep into Brahma;<br />
whose mind loses itself with ease in His contemplation.<br />
He is dear to me who knows Brahma, and can dwell on His supreme<br />
truth in meditation; and who can play the melody of the<br />
Infinite by uniting love and renunciation in life.<br />
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Old Fitzroy - - Dreaming blues, karlos?http://www.blogger.com/profile/16126705814934586860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3095588560139397755.post-73155150073384490532012-12-28T23:44:00.000+11:002013-01-19T12:13:19.114+11:00Jallah-din Rumi<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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O LIFE of the heart, Husamu-'d-Din,<br />
My zeal burnt within me to write this sixth part!<br />
The Masnavi became a standard through thy influence,<br />
Thy sword (Husam) has made it an exemplar to the world<br />
O spiritual one, I now offer it to thee,<br />
This sixth part of the entire Masnavi.<br />
Enlighten the world's six sides with its six parts,<br />
That it may illuminate him who is not illuminated!<br />
Love has naught to do with five senses or six sides,<br />
Its only aim is to be attracted to the Beloved!<br />
But haply leave may be given me hereafter<br />
To tell those mysteries so far as they can be told,<br />
In a discourse more closely approximating to the facts<br />
Than these faint indications of those abstruse matters.<br />
Mysteries are not communicable, save to those who know;<br />
Mystery in the ear of infidels is no mystery.<br />
Nevertheless, this is a call to you from God;<br />
It matters not to Him whether ye accept or reject it.<br />
Noah repeated His call for nine hundred years,<br />
But his people only increased in rebellion.<br />
Never did he draw back from admonishing them,<br />
Never did he retire into the cave of silence.<br />
He said, "At the barking and howling of the dogs<br />
No caravan ever turned back in its road.<br />
Nor does the full moon on a bright night cease shining<br />
Because of the howling of dogs on earth.<br />
The moon sheds her light, and the dogs howl;<br />
Every one acts according to his nature.<br />
To each one his office is allotted by the divine decree,<br />
And he acts agreeably to his nature."<br />
Art thou thirsting for the Ocean of spirituality?<br />
Disport thyself on this island of the Masnavi!<br />
Disport thyself so long as thou seest every moment<br />
Spiritual verities revealed in this Masnavi.<br />
When the wind blows the grass off the water,<br />
The water then shows forth its own purity.<br />
Behold the bright and fresh sprays of coral,<br />
And the princely fruits growing in the water of life!<br />
So, when the Masnavi is purged of letters and words,<br />
It drops all these, and appears as the sea of Unity.<br />
Then speaker and hearer and spoken words<br />
All three give up the ghost in that consummation.<br />
Bread-giver and bread-eater and bread itself<br />
Are purified of their forms and turn to dust.<br />
But their essences in each of these three grades<br />
Are distinguished, as in those states, so eternally. <br />
Their form turns to dust, but their essence not;<br />
If one says it does, tell him it does not.<br />
In the world of spirits all three await judgment,<br />
Sometimes wearing their earthly forms, sometimes not.<br />
The worth of a man depends on the objects of his aspiration.<br />
One day a student asked a preacher,<br />
Saying, "O most orthodox ornament of the pulpit,<br />
I have a question to ask, O lord of learning;<br />
Tell me the answer to it in this congregation.<br />
A bird sat on the top of a wall;<br />
Which was best, its head or its tail?"<br />
He replied, "If its face was towards the town,<br />
And its tail to the villages, then its face was best.<br />
But if its tail was towards the town, and its face<br />
Towards the villages, then prefer its tail to its face."<br />
A bird flies with its wings towards its nest,<br />
The wings of a man are his aspiration and aim.<br />
If a lover be befouled with good and evil,<br />
Yet regard not these; regard rather his aspiration.<br />
Though a falcon be all white and unmatched in form,<br />
If he hunts mice he is contemptible and worthless.<br />
And if an owl fixes his affection on the king,<br />
He is a falcon in reality; regard not his outward form.<br />
Adam's clay was kneaded in the limits of a trough,<br />
Yet was he exalted above heaven and stars.<br />
"We have honored Adam" was not addressed to the sky,<br />
But to Adam himself full of defects as he was.<br />
Did one ever propose to earth or heaven to receive<br />
Beauty, reason, speech and aspiration? <br />
Would you ever offer to the heavens<br />
Beauty of face and acuteness of thought?<br />
O son, did you ever present your silver body<br />
As an offering to the damsels pictured on bath walls?<br />
Nay, you pass by those pictures though fair as Huris,<br />
And offer yourself sooner to half-blind old women.<br />
What is there in the old women which the pictures lack,<br />
Which draws you from the pictures to the old women?<br />
Say not, for I will say it in plain words,<br />
'Tis reason, sense, perception, thought, and life.<br />
In the old woman life is infused,<br />
While the pictures of the bath have no life.<br />
If the pictures of the bath should stir with life (soul),<br />
They would uproot your love to all the old women.<br />
What is soul? 'Tis acquainted with good and evil,<br />
Rejoicing at pleasant things, grieving at His.<br />
Since, then, the principle of soul is knowledge,<br />
He who knows most is most full of soul.<br />
Knowledge is the effect flowing from soul;<br />
He who has most of it is most godlike.<br />
Seeing then, beloved, that knowledge is the mark of soul,<br />
He who knows most has the strongest soul.<br />
The world of souls is itself entirely knowledge,<br />
And he who is void of knowledge is void of soul.<br />
When knowledge is lacking in a man s nature,<br />
His soul is like a stone on the plain.<br />
Primal Soul is the theatre of God's court,<br />
Soul of souls the exhibition of God Himself.<br />
All the angels were pure reason and soul,<br />
Yet when the new soul of Adam came, they were as its body.<br />
When in joy they crowded round that new soul, <br />
They bowed before it as body does before soul.<br />
Fear of men's censure the greatest obstacle to acceptance of the true faith.<br />
O Husamu-'d-Din, I might tell some of thy many virtues,<br />
Were it not for the fear of the evil eyes.<br />
From evil eyes and malice-empoisoned breaths<br />
Already have I suffered fatal wounds.<br />
Therefore I cannot relate thy ecstatic states,<br />
Save by hints of the ecstatic states of others.<br />
This manoeuvre is one of the devices of the heart,<br />
Whereby the heart's feet wend their way to the truth.<br />
Many hearts and souls would become lovers of God<br />
Did not evil eyes or evil ears hold them back.<br />
Of these Abu Talib, the Prophet's uncle, was one;<br />
The malice of the Arabs scared him from the faith.<br />
He said, "What will the Arabs say of me?<br />
That my own nephew has perverted me from my religion!"<br />
Muhammad said, "O uncle, confess the faith to me,<br />
That I may strive with God for thee!"<br />
He said, "Nay; it will be published by them that hear;<br />
'A secret known to more than two is known to every one.' <br />
As I live in the midst of these Arabs,<br />
It will cause me to lose caste with them.<br />
Yet, had the mighty grace of God led the way,<br />
How could this fear have vied with God's attraction?<br />
O Granter of aid, lend us aid<br />
In this dilemma of the feeble will.<br />
Prayers for right guidance in the use of free will, which gift was refused by
heavens and earth, but accepted by man to his own. <br />
This flux and reflux of resolves came to me from Thee,<br />
Else these tides of will had rested still, O God!<br />
By the same fiat whereby Thou madest me thus irresolute,<br />
Of Thy mercy deliver me from this irresolution!<br />
Thou triest me; O give me aid!<br />
For men are as women through this trial.<br />
How long, O Lord, is this trial to last?<br />
Give me one ruling principle, not ten principles!<br />
The whole world flees away from its own will and being<br />
Towards self-abandonment and intoxication.<br />
In order to escape a while from self-consciousness,<br />
Men incur the reproach of wine and strong drink;<br />
For all know well this existence is a snare,<br />
This thought and memory and will only a hell.<br />
Therefore they flee from self to being beside themselves,<br />
Call it intoxication or call it preoccupation, O guided one.<br />
Ere it is annihilated, no single soul<br />
Finds admittance to the divine hall of audience.<br />
What is "ascension" to heaven? Annihilation of self;<br />
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Old Fitzroy - - Dreaming blues, karlos?http://www.blogger.com/profile/16126705814934586860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3095588560139397755.post-37112914116550774612012-08-14T23:32:00.000+10:002012-08-30T20:09:38.561+10:00Vera Di Campli San Vito<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #003399; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%;">There’s
no good friend</span></span><span style="color: #003399; font-size: small; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="color: #003399; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%;"> </span></h2>
<h2 style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%;">on whom you can call.</span><span style="color: #003399; font-size: small; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></h2>
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<span style="color: #003399; font-size: small; line-height: 150%;">Where pavement meets wall </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 150%; margin-left: 56.7pt; text-indent: -56.7pt;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-size: small; line-height: 150%;">a skip’s overflowing.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 150%; margin-left: 56.7pt; text-indent: -56.7pt;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-size: small; line-height: 150%;">On whom can you call</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 150%; margin-left: 56.7pt; text-indent: -56.7pt;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-size: small; line-height: 150%;">where are you going?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 150%; margin-left: 56.7pt; text-indent: -56.7pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 150%; margin-left: 56.7pt; text-indent: -56.7pt;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-size: small; line-height: 150%;">A skip’s overflowing</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 150%; margin-left: 56.7pt; text-indent: -56.7pt;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-size: small; line-height: 150%;">what you’ve not said.</span></div>
<h2 style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #003399; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%;">Where
are you going?</span></span></h2>
<h2 style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #003399; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%;">Shed
your black dread.</span></span></h2>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 150%; margin-left: 56.7pt; text-indent: -56.7pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 150%; margin-left: 56.7pt; text-indent: -56.7pt;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-size: small; line-height: 150%;">What you’ve not said</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 150%; margin-left: 56.7pt; text-indent: -56.7pt;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-size: small; line-height: 150%;">crows pick and crow.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 150%; margin-left: 56.7pt; text-indent: -56.7pt;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-size: small; line-height: 150%;">Shed your black dread</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 150%; margin-left: 56.7pt; text-indent: -56.7pt;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-size: small; line-height: 150%;">don’t feel so low.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-size: small; line-height: 150%;">Crows pick and
crow</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 150%; margin-left: 56.7pt; text-indent: -56.7pt;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-size: small; line-height: 150%;">shadow thoughts scatter.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-size: small; line-height: 150%;">Don’t feel so
low</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 150%; margin-left: 56.7pt; text-indent: -56.7pt;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-size: small; line-height: 150%;">know it doesn’t matter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 150%; margin-left: 56.7pt; text-indent: -56.7pt;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-size: small; line-height: 150%;">Shadow thoughts scatter </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 150%; margin-left: 56.7pt; text-indent: -56.7pt;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-size: small; line-height: 150%;">where crow spirits fly.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 150%; margin-left: 56.7pt; text-indent: -56.7pt;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-size: small; line-height: 150%;">Know it doesn’t matter.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 150%; margin-left: 56.7pt; text-indent: -56.7pt;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-size: small; line-height: 150%;">Ask yourself why</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 150%; margin-left: 56.7pt; text-indent: -56.7pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 150%; margin-left: 56.7pt; text-indent: -56.7pt;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-size: small; line-height: 150%;">where crow spirits fly </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 150%; margin-left: 56.7pt; text-indent: -56.7pt;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-size: small; line-height: 150%;">there’s no good friend.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 150%; margin-left: 56.7pt; text-indent: -56.7pt;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-size: small; line-height: 150%;">Ask yourself why </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-size: small; line-height: 150%;">you’re at this
dead end.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: Batang; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">◈</span><span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<b><span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Halfway to
–<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(post-journey reflections)</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Limited express
tracks over the river </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">between towers
of glass under mare’s tail skies. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Outstretched
arms of cranes point to tunnels & </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">silver
escalators moving deeper to a centre.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">To <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">unearth the uncommon</i>: our destination. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">All the newness
of spring.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Blankness comes
from movement, </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">like a horse in
windy weather: keep it </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">moving & it
won’t spook. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Sweeten the feeling</span></i><span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">If all this
disappeared, what would take its place?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Peppercorns
& pines, more sun than ever & </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">the </span><span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">IVALDA</span><span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">MASONIC</span><span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">TEMPLE</span><span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">We’re swimming
in camaraderie,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">the air serene,
mare’s tails swishing in the blue. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Each stop
another line written</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">yet lost in
this formlessness.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Alphington not
Framlingham & Ivanhoe no crusader. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Poplars &
pickets recede.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Red & green
signal lights blink,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">tracks slide
together – the horizon. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Here is a
platform for our company, </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">we work on the
move. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Cranes beckon
us back to glass towers,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">each thought
fluid as river water.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">No fixed frame
of reference – only a to & fro </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">till each finds
a still point: blank, lined, squared. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">What lies
beyond? </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Bend in the
river, curve of the tracks.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: Batang; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">◈</span><span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></div>
<h2 style="line-height: 150%;">
</h2>
<h2 style="line-height: 150%;">
</h2>
<h2 style="line-height: 150%;">
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%;">Wind
Poem #1</span></span></b></h2>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Oh the wind is
anything but ordinary </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">in its organ
loft in the clouds.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It turns the
washing to origami </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">and blows
leaves off the oleander.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">An obstreperous
ogre huffing and puffing </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">it makes a dust
bowl of everything.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">We wait for the
off-season, </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">onlookers of an
occult game of the elements.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This wind wants
to nuzzle my norks </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">and make my
nipples stand on end.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Wind Poem #2</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This dun
coloured dray horse </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">pulls a heavy
load.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Its dreary work
is never done.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Accompanied by
the music of a dumb piano </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">he stops now
and then to pluck </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">a mouthful of
eau-de-Nil coloured grass.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">All never
ending work is divine </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">by nature,
whether or not </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">it makes you
feel ecstatic.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Eden</span><span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> never had
electric lights </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">and living
there meant </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">you could never
be eclectic.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Wind Poem #3</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Around the time
of the summer solstice</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">the twins
next-door would sleepwalk in my garden.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I’d taught them
short-division </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">and we were
working on the long.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Stalwart in
their dreams, they used to </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">spit at snails on
the grass,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">ran the
spectrum of bizarre acts.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Once I saw them
breathe </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">into the
spiracle of a stick insect.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">They lived
within their own sphere </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">and were
supicious of all else.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: Batang; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">◈</span><span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Wayward</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">When I arrive home later than expected</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">she's pacing up and down the street</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">one hand shielding her eyes</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">the other clutching a wooden spoon.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Never will I understand</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">why I'm punished when I'm late. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Sometimes, I have a good reason. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Shouldn't she be glad to see me?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">But no. She has to Teach me a Lesson. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">'Wait till you have kids – </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">then you'll know what it's like to worry.' </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">But I haven't. And I don't.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">So what do I do instead?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Perfect my ability to get waylaid.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #003399; font-family: Batang; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">◈</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<b><span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Dare's Lane,
Ewshot</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">A woman rides a
dapple grey horse</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">on a blue sky
winter's afternoon,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">rides a steady,
collected canter</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">da-da dum da-da
dum da-da dum.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">She goes round
big, goes round small,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">navigates jumps
and obstacles, then</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">halts at the
far end of the manège,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">dismounts in
one swift, fluid movement,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">adjusts the
bridle and with slight effort</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">remounts. The
big grey awaits her sign.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I lean on a
fence a short distance away, </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">standing in
mud, foot-numb.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Relentlessly
round and round they go:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">da-da dum da-da
dum da-da dum.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">She's rocking
gently on her cantering </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">horse, a
constant slow-time rhythm.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I watch and
watch and wish it was me;</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">it's a perfect
day for riding.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: Batang; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">◈</span><span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<b><span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Little Mermaid </span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">First time I
broke the waves </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">and saw him, he
danced </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">till dawn on
his ship.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">When the storm
came </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">and he was
drowning, </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I gathered him
in my arms, </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">kissed him and
wished </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">he might live.
I saved him. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">But I lost
myself.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">At home I’d
embrace </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">my statue, remember
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">the prince’s
head,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">limp on my
breast, </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">the curve of
his mouth</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">damp locks of
his hair.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Imagine my
desire, </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">my fierce,
fearless hope,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">wanting always
to be </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">amongst humans,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">amongst
forests, </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">fields and
mountains.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Love is a
gamble.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I gambled my
heart, </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">my art, for
love.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I crossed my
destiny,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">paid a price.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">My prince, I
saw the best </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">in you,
believed you would </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">give your best
to me. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I left home and
family </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">for you,
forever lost</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">my siren’s
voice for you,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">lost my tail,
my fishy scales,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">and you married
another.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I saved you,
not myself.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">On his wedding
night</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I danced and
laughed,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">though daggers </span></div>
<div class="MsoHeader" style="line-height: 150%; tab-stops: .5in;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">stabbed my feet, </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">plunged deeper
still</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">into my heart.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">O bride, who
cherished </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">my story in
your childhood,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">hear me now.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">You will never </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">change your
destiny,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">try as you
might – </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">never change
another, </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">love them as
you will.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Accept your
fate,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">love others as
they are.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And be wise to
whom </span></div>
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<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">you give your
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">What can I
tell you about myself? You, a stranger. I guess we’re all strangers to start
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could the world continue if somebody didn’t kiss a stranger?”</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> Autobiography reminds me of being asked by someone you’ve just met,
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">For as long as I can remember,
I’ve felt like a black sheep. My family’s traditional values and love of
material comfort and security frustrates my less pragmatic ideals. Perhaps it
began when I started to show a love for animals? The only pets I was allowed
were goldfish, tadpoles, budgerigars and mice. My father kept a succession of
sulphur-crested cockatoos. Cats, dogs, and even guinea pigs were out of the
question, never mind the fact that for a while it seemed that every stray dog
and lost kitten would follow me home. What I wanted most of all, of course, was
a pony. I grew up on the banks of the Yarra River, in an inner suburb of
Melbourne, and I was obsessed with horses. When I was twelve or thirteen, I
used to visit an old Thoroughbred, Matlock, at Creswick Reserve, having
befriended his owner, a girl my age whose parents had succumbed to their
daughter’s desire for a horse. One day, Matlock wandered out of his yard, out
on to the main road. He was hit by a car and had to have stitches in his head.
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a local practice all through high school. I began by volunteering, just because
I wanted to be around the animals, but eventually was offered a part-time job.
I worked on Saturdays and in the school holidays. Even before I finished high
school, I knew I wouldn’t have the grades to enrol in veterinary science. I studied
maths, biology, chemistry and physics, but I wasn’t any good. The standard of
the teachers at my school didn’t help. I barely scraped through my leaving
exams and eventually completed an arts degree in creative writing, literature
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came with my image of myself as a rebel. Having heard the wayward youth stories
of others, I’m aware that it’s all relative. My rebelliousness was mild to say
the least, but in the context of my parents’ strictness, it counted for
something. Although I never felt particularly encouraged in my interests,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>neither was I expected to do anything I
didn’t want to, apart from find a suitable husband, marry and have children.
None of this eventuated. I was always disappearing on my bicycle, sneaking off,
late coming home, worried about getting into trouble. Once, in my student
magazine/radio days, I arrived home at 2am with a long-stemmed red rose and a
fifty dollar note in my hand. I had a hard time explaining to Dad that I’d been
working legitimately, packing up a college fashion show.</span></div>
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all my life around books. My father loved books, especially encyclopaedias,
dictionaries and atlases. I devoured books when I was a kid – from fairytales (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Little Mermaid</i> made me cry) to popular
children’s fiction by authors such as Mary O’Hara, KM Peyton, the
Pullein-Thompson sisters, John Christopher, LM Montgomery and SE Hinton. I read
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">lots</i> of pony books, until my English
teacher suggested I was a little too old for pony books now and might like to
read something more grown-up. I don’t think he suggested anything in particular
though, and so I came home from the local library with titles by Ian Fleming,
Gore Vidal and Vladimir Nabokov (who dedicated all his novels to his wife,
Vera). Perhaps they seemed the most “grown up” books to me? My mother said I’d
go blind if I read too much. I paid no attention to her. I’ve worked in
secondhand bookshops, in a university bookshop and in lots of different
libraries. My hands have absorbed quantities of book dust and grime. The acid
in the paper dries the skin.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I have friends who, like me,
feel that they are in the world but not of it. Perhaps it relates to the black
sheep feeling, its roots in our upbringing? Some of these friends I met at a
Womenspirit camp in the early 90s. These women are the sanest, strongest,
smartest people I know – creative, artistic, psychic, able to walk across a bed
of hot coals at will. In theory, we’re capable of doing anything we want. In
practice, we’re limited by the society we live in, the choices we make, our
lack of confidence in ourselves. We struggle on, pull through, ride our ups and
downs, our lives and the Great Weaving ultimately a mystery. My friends have
had a great influence on my life. I’ve learnt about all sorts of things from
them. Their presence shapes my identity, as does their absence.</span></div>
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Melbourne in 1993, bound for London via a visit to the relatives in Italy, I
felt like a caged bird set free, with all the ambivalence that implies. I lived
in London for nine years and loved it, worked mainly in libraries and, for the
last two years of my stay, at The Poetry Society in Covent Garden. I’ve never
felt quite settled in Melbourne – the grass has always seemed greener
elsewhere. Having been back for ten years, I still dream of a place in the
country – just me and my pony.</span></div>
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Old Fitzroy - - Dreaming blues, karlos?http://www.blogger.com/profile/16126705814934586860noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3095588560139397755.post-60986234625103308712012-08-13T21:18:00.000+10:002012-08-13T21:27:11.982+10:00Love By Any Name<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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19-year-old arthritic dog, who is racked with pain, to sleep in the water to
ease the animal's suffering has revealed he is only repaying the favour after
his faithful companion rescued him from despair.Mr Unger, who is now 49,
initially adopted Schoep 19 years ago with an ex-fiance. But after the relationship ended he fell into
depression and told the Duluth News Tribune that one night he went to a
breakwater off </span><span style="color: navy;">Milwaukee</span><span style="color: navy;">, where he contemplated suicide. "To be honest
with you, I don’t think I’d be here if I didn’t have Schoep with me (that
night)," he said. "He just snapped me out of it. I don’t know how to
explain it. He just snapped me out of it. … I just want to do whatever I can
for this dog because he basically saved my ass. I’m just repaying a favour."</span></span></div>
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led to the now-famous picture, taken by his photographer friend Hannah
Stonehouse Hudson. “Schoep falls asleep every night when he is carried into the
lake,” Ms Hudson told Mailonline. "The buoyancy of the water soothes his
arthritic bones. </span><span style="color: navy;">Lake Superior</span><span style="color: navy;"> is very warm right now, so the temp of the water is
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his use of material being plagiarist. His album <i><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Modern Times</span></i> included lines lifted from blues
songs and from the Civil War poet Henry Timrod. And recent exhibitions of his
paintings turned out to contain images from other sources.”</span></div>
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other aspects related to the current era named by the intelligentsia from the
academy, the arts, letters and literature as ‘Post Modernist’:</span></div>
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<span style="color: navy; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: small; line-height: 150%;"> “Well you know they used the
term ‘modern’ early last century and now they call the theory of what’s
happening in the world of ideas ‘post-modern’ among others. You know – no
absolutes, no absolute reality, no absolute first cause, no absolute rule of
behaviour and so on, so why shouldn’t I borrow whenever I feel like it? If you
want to put a label on what I do then give it the label of ‘plastic post
modern’, that’s as good as any. I mean plastic in the sense of flexibility and movement
and not in the sense of phoney, you know, like a plastic fork instead of a real
iron fork. Plastic, flexible, able to adapt to form or environment that’s what
I mean. That’s what I do, just like the Romans took ideas and things from the
Greeks before them and which the Greeks got from Sanskrit Aryan India before
them, which they got from an earlier culture, and earlier period – everybody
borrows, if it works then use it, you know. </span><br />
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told nobody before and I got it direct from the thoroughbed's mouth so to speak – one
day I was sitting with Woody Guthrie in the hospital when he was dying and we
were alone and he told me that his whole style of story, song, and sound he got
face to face from an old guy in the Appalachian mountains, a hillbilly you
could call him, by name of Ezekiel McDougals, and that was back in the 1920s when
Woody was really no more than a kid. McDougals was a very old man back then and
Woody said that there was always a bunch of musicians in McDougals house,
everyone from all over wanted to play music with him – jam with him – because
he knew so much and the history of it. Now back then this old man told Woody of
how he personally had known a travelling Negro musician by name of ‘One Eye
Willie’ who was a legend – but almost nobody had ever come across him – and
McDougals told Woody that he got most of what he knew as a musician from One
Eye Willie back in the 1870’s. Now One Eye Willie he told to McDougals that he
got most of what he knew from an old Scottish ex-slave from the plantations
when One Eye himself was no more than a kid. </span><br />
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after they were hunted down for years by the Duke of Cumberland, brother of
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sold as slaves to work alongside the Africans in the plantations of the South. So
I can trace my protocols of artistic lineage all the way back in a direct line
over 250 years, and back in those days the current theory and label that the
intelligentsia – so called - named that
period of time and the term used was ‘The Enlightenment’. And while we're about identifying antecedents here's a late one - the Chicago Blues sound of Paul Buterfield Blues Band of 1965, that resonated with me big, my kind of sound, I could see myself putting dust bowl ballads to that kind of sound. So they can shove their
accusations, their rules and regulations, their labels and matrixes, their
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Century;">Buried in a crypt beneath a convent in </span><place><city><span style="font-family: Century;">Florence</span></city><span style="font-family: Century;">, </span><country -region="-region"><span style="font-family: Century;">Italy</span></country></place><span style="font-family: Century;">, archaeologists believe they have uncovered the skeleton belonging to the model who posed for Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece in 1504. The wife of a rich silk merchant, Lisa Gheradini, is generally accepted by historians to be the woman with the mysterious smile.Lisa Gheradini, whose married name was Giocondo, became a nun after her husband's death. She was buried in the grounds of the Convent of Saint Ursula where she died in 1542, aged 63.</span></span><br />
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</div>Old Fitzroy - - Dreaming blues, karlos?http://www.blogger.com/profile/16126705814934586860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3095588560139397755.post-47478000868313627212012-06-10T22:12:00.003+10:002014-11-02T23:53:22.853+11:00David Shepherd & Anna Gruenz – film makers, photographers writers, and actors.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">Life in God’s Test Tube # 2</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">I was born in 1949 above my ole man’s Aquarist’s shop in between </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">Liverpool</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;"> and </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">Manchester</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;"> on the River Mersey, the dirtiest river in </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">England</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">. It was black with floating brown foam. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">No one in </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">Warrington</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;"> would have read Burrough’s ‘Junkie’ or any other Beat stuff, it was strictly a ‘Knees Up Mother Brown’ town. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">Only a few Teddy-boys and the occasional invasion of Gypsies broke the dirty, drab, cloth-cap monotony. Sometimes I’d see a Tramp. They always intrigued me. Where did they come from and where were they going? Dirty and free. Homeless and happy – they always looked happy.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">‘My mother she was orange and my father he was green’. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">They were petit bourgeoisie/aspiring middle class. My father’s father was an Irish Catholic who ran a big pub opposite the station. It had four bars and a Billiard room with two full size tables called The Prince of Wales. I had my first drink there when I was about eight years old. A shot of rum, served by grandfather much to my mother’s vociferous objections. (“Don’t be ridiculous, woman. It’s good for the boy!”) That was also the year I started smoking. I’d crawl into my parent’s bedroom just after dawn and pull a cigarette out of the pack on the bedside table next to the ole man’s head. The noise of a cigarette grinding against the cardboard pack as it’s slowly pulled out is deafening at that time of day. Then I’d go down and smoke in the cupboard under the stairs. If there were only a couple left I had to go without – too obvious.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">My mother was an English Methodist. Her father was an engineer/wire-rope boffin. He was also a part-time conjurer performing at vaudevillian halls and clubs. He taught me tricks and how to walk on six foot high stilts. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">The Persil factory was just down the road. Every week, whale blubber would come up river and the neighbourhood would stink for a couple of days as it was rendered down into fat for soap. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">Warrington</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;"> was Oliver Cromwell territory. The Battle of Preston Moor was fought a few miles away. In the middle of town was a huge black statue of Ollie, hands on hips, standing on Charles 1st’s severed head. I was fascinated by that statue. I thought Ollie was a hero; the leader of the first revolution.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">The queen-mother came for a visit. We were in the crowd, cheering, waving Union Jacks and I noticed Ollie had been covered by a huge tarpaulin. I asked my ole man why, he said, “You know that head he’s standing on? That’s the head of her great-great-great-great grandfather. They’ve covered it so she won’t see it.” I thought, fuck! If she’s the queen’s mother surely she already knows it’s there? Besides, the tarp stood out like dog’s balls! Across the road was a double story, thatched roofed Tudor house with ‘Oliver Cromwell slept here’ plastered on it. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">In the 1920s my grandfather had a wire rope gig in </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">Spain</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;"> and the family (12 of them) lived the good life there for years in a big mansion replete with servants until Franco banished all the Brits in the 30’s. I could never figure out why some of my aunts looked like Mediterranean mommas. My grandma’s maiden name was Hill. I concluded that grandad must have been rooting the servants and that even my mother was one of his bastard children they had obviously adopted, what else could account for my olive skin? My ole man’s mother was Welsh! I discovered years later, during a Sherry session with my mum that her mother’s mother was indeed Spanish (it’s the kind of thing one didn’t admit to). I knew I had a bit of The Moor in me! </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">It must have been a big shock for them landing back in dirty old </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">Warrington</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;"> and then came the second world war. My father survived the Normandy Invasion. He only copped two broken legs, not from the enemy - an English jeep broke its ropes in the landing barge and ran over him! He never made it to the beach. Evidently most of his company was wiped out. He spent the rest of the war in the Honourable Anti-Aircraft Corps in </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">Scotland</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">The ole man could do anything, he sang, played sax and clarinet in his own jazz band, he was a qualified butcher, a boxer, a French-polisher, he bought and sold cars, ran his own taxi company, second-hand furniture shop, tobacconist, bred Cocker Spaniels and drove coaches full of ‘Ee Bah Gum’ stiffs to Blackpool at week-ends (sometimes I’d ride shotgun). On the way home the passengers would continue their drink-a-thon and have a sing-a-long. It was bizarre, careering through the night with fifty drunken men and women in the back yelling ‘Roll Out The Barrel’ and ‘I’ve Got A Lovely Bunch Of Coconuts’. The ole man would pull over every half an hour for a piss stop. (“Ladies to the left, Gents to the right please.”) He was also the President of the Warrington Aquarist’s Society. He bought a Mark Four Jaguar Sports Saloon, an ex R.A.F. staff car painted battleship grey. I used to sit on his lap and steer it, peering through the gigantic steering wheel covered in chrome switches. The headlights were as big as dinner plates and they made a powerful ‘fumph’ sound when they were turned on. One and a half litre, four on the floor and man, could that thing fly!</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">For some reason my ole man sold the shop. No more fish, snakes, lizards, tortoises, axolotls, frogs and mice for snake food. He bred Siamese Fighters (for looks not fighting). The males had to be kept apart but occasionally one would jump out of its solitary confinement slot and attack the one next door. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">Unable to be separated, I’d</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;"> watch in morbid fascination as these amazingly coloured, elegant fish, fins like The Dance of the Seven Veils, ripped each other to shreds until one or both died. I always had an aquarium in my bedroom with some kind of breeding program in progress. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">We moved out of town into a house opposite The Manchester Ship Canal. Huge cargo ships sailed past my bedroom window from exotic places like </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">Genoa</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">Panama</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;"> and </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">Iberia</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">. I spent hours gawking at the ships, yelling at the crew. What a life, sailing around the world! I later discovered the crew never left the ship except in home port. When a ship came along me and my mate Colin would torch the nettle bushes along the embankment. They went up like napalm in thick black smoke covering the whole ship. Scavenged fluorescent tubes were launched as torpedos exploding in a cloud of white dust when they hit the hull. Radio valves and light bulbs made good hand grenades. We’d climb under the nearby steel-arch swing-bridge and ride it across the water as it opened to let ships through. We were stricken by fear, excitement, terror and awe simultaneously, lying on our stomachs, clinging to that riveted steel girder under the road. Imagine falling into that giant network of greasy cogs grinding around or the murky water sixty feet below. We couldn’t get off even if we wanted to until it closed again. Sometimes three ships would go through at once so we’d be up there for twenty minutes. It was too long, every feeling dissipated except fear. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">My mother’s parents had died, my ole man’s mother had died and he’d had a tremendous blue with his ole man (my mum’s non-Catholic heathenism was mentioned) culminating in grandad declaring, “You won’t get a penny out of me. Young David will get the lot!” I thought, good one grandad. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">Years later he remarried and his new wife got the lot.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">The ole man scored a prestigious Aquarist gig at the Melbourne Zoological Gardens, designing, installing and managing their planned aquarium complex. All bets were off! </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">We’re emigrating to </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">Australia</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;"> at the end of the year by ship. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;"> Poor Colin fell off the bridge and drowned in the canal not long after I left. One year later I’m aboard the S.S. Fairsea with five thousand other ten pound poms, packed like sardines (there were fourteen men and boys in my cabin) heading for the bottom of the world. I’m sure no one on board would have read Burrough’s ‘Naked Lunch.’ The </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">Suez Canal</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;"> was surreal. Standing in the middle of the ship it looked like it was sailing through the sand. Now, I was aboard ship yelling at them land lubbers. They wore turbans and Fezzes and rode camels and donkeys. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">The first dead body I ever saw was my grandma, laid out in the front room. My mother made me kiss her goodbye. I didn’t want to. Her cheek was cold but she looked like she was asleep. I cried for a long time over that. The second was in </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">Aden</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">. An old stiff had been stabbed and an enterprising young Arab was making a few bucks showing tourists the grisly art object. The ole man, who had hooked up with some young Irish guys from the ship, whilst the girls went shopping, said I was too young to handle it but eventually caved in to my protestations and let me tag along (“Don’t tell your mother”). I was pretty impressed by the realism of the huge knife sticking out of the guy’s chest and all the blood on the floor but he just looked like he was asleep. I was more impressed with the local administration for suppling wire cages full of straw mattresses spread around the city for the beggars to sleep on at night. How thoughtful, I thought.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">Finally, we arrived in </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">Melbourne</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">. It was January, about 100 degrees in the shade with blow flies the size of lobsters. A priest from the Catholic Immigration Board met us at the old, creaking wooden wharf and drove us through the poor inner city suburbs of Port Melbourne, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">South Melbourne</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">, Fitzroy and Collingwood to our new home in Clifton Hill. Not this desperate, little, peeling, weatherboard terrace house with the rusty corrugated tin roof? We must have gone back in time! I’d never seen so much rusty Victorian wrought iron-work. I’d never even seen a house with a corrugated tin roof before. I went to the toilet but there wasn’t one. Just a stinking can full of shit and flies in a shed at the bottom of the back yard. I told my ole man but he didn’t believe me. He checked it out, came back and said to my mum, “He’s right, love. There’s no sewerage.” My mother broke down (“Oh my God! What have we done?”) She cried for two weeks. When the ole man was out and about scouting, mum, my two younger sisters and I spent most of the time traipsing around the city ‘sight-seeing’ until we moved to East St Kilda. A brick house with a real roof and a bathroom, not far from the beach and there were even palms in the middle of the road. My mother finally stopped crying.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">Surprisingly, the ole man, straight off the boat, got shafted on the zoo gig. Something about a low starting salary then later on…maybe more. He told them to shove it - he could make more money driving a fucking truck! A week later he was and did for a few years until he started up his own Aquarist business in Prahran. He also sold rock pythons and carpet snakes. I’d waltz down </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">Chapel Street</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">, Prahran with a 14 foot carpet snake with a head as big as a man’s fist draped around my neck. That snake was so docile I could do anything with him. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">I was enrolled at the local Catholic boy’s school. In his wisdom the headmaster decided that the Australian education system was far superior to the English and put me down a grade. I felt swindled getting an extra year added onto my school sentence but it was a blessing in disguise. Suddenly, I was a star pupil, third in the class then first. I was in the top six of the class for four years running. I’d done all the work before in </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">England</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">. The only subject I had to study was ‘Social Studies’ which was an amalgam of Australian history and geography. It was a pretty thin book. I spent most of my time drawing under the desk in a sketch book on my lap and learning how to speak Strine. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">There were only two kinds of aliens at my school, Dagos and Pommy Bastards and with my thick </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">Lancashire</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;"> accent I was definitely one of the latter. I worked out a technique losing all the vowels except two, soften them, elongate them, then run all your words together. I rehearsed and listened to the other kids and never opened my mouth until I’d gone over the pronunciation in my head. Within two years I was speaking perfect Strine and no longer an object of ridicule except when performing for the class. My favourite trick was drawing a characterization of the next period’s teacher, in chalk on the black-board. It was always a winner, until I got sprung by the actual teacher. Brother Corrish whose nick-name ‘Cork-head’ (he had bad acne scars on his face) I’d emblazoned it across the board. He gave me six cuts for it but even Cork-head found it slightly amusing. I was the class clown but I was still getting good marks and my French and Latin were excellent. They were the only subjects I needed to study – still! Then I won a scholarship to </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">Christian</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">Brothers</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">College</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">, St. Kilda. This meant five more years added onto my school sentence then another four at University. More time than I had already done, all up, in two countries. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">I did Mechanical Drawing on the premise that I wanted to be an Architect. I just wanted to work with pencils, paper, rubbers, compasses and all that other stationary but what I really wanted to do was just leave. I had already counted off the days till I could be legally released.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">There were other ways out. I toyed with the idea of joining The Cloth and become a priest. Cut out the middle man. Therefore one becomes closer to God, gets a presbytery to live in with a house-maid and a car. Blesses people with incense and holy water, wears vestments, speaks Latin and drinks wine on the altar/stage and then stands in the pulpit for hours raving on - nobody walks out during a sermon. I could have been a Monsignor by now.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">We had these ‘Holy Days of Obligation” which meant a day off school in order to engage in church rituals. The day before each of these ‘Days’, in which one had to be in a state of grace, the form master would enquire if anyone wanted to go to confession at the church. Of course we wanted to go to confession in the church! This was time out of school work. We’d make bets with each other on how long we could stay in the confessional. The priest would always want exact details (“And how many times did you do this and etc?”). I was in there for half an hour one day bullshitting on. I got over an hours penance and made two bob. Returning to class at </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">three o’clock</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;"> the master attacked, “Shepherd, where have you been?” “Doing penance Brother.” “Very good then, sit down.” </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">I investigated the Navy but it seemed too much like being in gaol, in the middle of the ocean, taking orders, no thanks, Sir. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">I liked riding horses and I thought about becoming a jockey. Right size but not at 4am every morning. I got the sack from my gig as an altar-boy after being late for 7.00am Mass 5 out of 7 days during my first and only week.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">I could get an apprenticeship but what? If only I’d known then about demolition, people actually getting paid for blowing up buildings.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">Of course the whole idea of ‘throwing away my scholarship’ was anathema to my parents who had sacrificed everything to give their children a good education. I eventually bribed my parents into letting me go to work when I was 16 on the proviso that I continued to study at night school.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">I did a 180 degree turn, cut my hair short like some of my mates and became a Sharpie. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">Melbourne</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;"> in the mid sixties was the only place in </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">Australia</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;"> and the rest of the world where the Sharpie phenomena existed. Gangs of youths dressed in fine Italian knitwear, hand made Italian chisel-toed, suede, Cuban heeled shoes, tailor-made wide pants or imported Lee jeans with an ironed crease in them. I used to get my haircut every Friday night then go out marauding with the boys. We’d fight gangs from other suburbs, go to dances and start fights, go to the footy and start fights, bash guys with long hair, engage in random acts of vandalism and roll drunks. One night a member of the gang lost it at the </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">South Yarra</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;"> station and caved a guy’s head in with a spade. There was blood everywhere. That was the last straw for me. I didn’t like the ultra-violence, bashing drunks or anyone else for that matter. Besides, all the music we were listening to was made by guys with long hair. I did the 180 degree turn back and so did some of my mates. We became Mods. ‘The Who’ was our ideal cool. The violence was in the music not in the streets. I tried to emulate Pete Townsend’s hairstyle for years. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">When I turned 16 I went to work in a clothing factory where I’d been working after school, on week-ends and during holidays for a year or more. The owners were South African Jews from </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">Durban</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">. Although incredibly racist they introduced me to Bagels, rye bread, Roll Mops, baked cheesecake, Kosher food and Yiddish humour. The Schmuck, the Schlemiel and the Schlimazel gave The Marx Brothers, The 3 Stooges, Jack Benny and even Lenny Bruce another dimension. I’d never realized there was a complete philosophy about humour. I filed it for later use. Sadly, I had to keep my side of the night school bargain with my parents. I went to </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">Taylors</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">College</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;"> in </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">Flinders Lane</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;"> and my boss paid for it. Across the road was The Star Theatrette and I found a way of getting in through the toilets at the back. It was the only cinema in </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">Melbourne</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;"> that showed 16mm European films with subtitles continuously. Needless to say I spent more time at The Star, for free, than </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">Taylors</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">. I never finished night school but learned much about French and Italian New Wave films. I filed it for later use.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">I worked my arse off at the factory for about 2 years. 10 sometimes 12 hour days but only till </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">3pm</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;"> on Fridays on account of the Sabbath but to offset that I’d work on Saturdays till </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">2pm</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">. The boss called me a little Kaffir and I was. One long weekend on the piss I got into work a day late and the boss had a go at me so I had a go back. I ended up calling him a cunt in front of 120 Greek female machinists. It was too much for him in front of ‘them’ and he gave me the sack. I told him to stick his factory up his arse and joined the Public Service where my girlfriend and a few mates worked. Nobody got the sack from the Public Service. Coming to almost a dead stop after working like a maniac for years was so boring I only lasted 6 months. When a friend of the ole man offered me a job assisting him at his Lithographic Plate-making firm I jumped at it. After about 12 months I was Camera-operating, working in the dark room, re-touching photos and burning plates. It was always busy but I liked it. He went broke and handed the business and me over to one of his debtors. Now I was working for a big printing firm with state of the art dark room and plate-making facilities. Eventually, I was managing the plate-making department but I couldn’t handle whipping the workers and demanding they work overtime to meet ridiculous deadlines. I asked to be demoted and was. I definitely wasn’t manager material. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">Before my incarceration I had been a ‘client’ of a drug referral centre in </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">Carlton</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;"> called Buoyancy. It was more of a meeting place for junkies and other deadbeats. A place where transients could have their mail sent to, see the doctor or get legal advice. It operated on the pretext that drug addiction was a medical problem and that crime was just a side effect. June Bryant ran the place and she got to hear so many humorous anecdotes and stories she posed the idea of making a film about our nefarious activities in the </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">Melbourne</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;"> narcotics scene. A friend of mine, John Hooper, whose sister was married to film director Bert Deeling, got him interested. John and I wrote the whole story, based on fact, in 3 days. Bert liked it, submitted it to the A.F.I. (Australian Film Institute) for a development grant and the cult classic ’Pure Shit’ was born. We went to The Pram Factory and La Mama in </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">Carlton</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;"> to see plays and eyeball actors. We saw ‘In the Year of Lacertis’, a play directed by Phil Motherwell, at La Mama and almost the whole cast were junkies! We’d hit pay dirt! Gallagher was in the play but we didn’t use him – we wanted real junkies who would take real drugs in the movie! </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">I had just finished the script for a short 16mm experimental film, ‘The Edge’ which was going to be my directorial debut. Instead, I got the 18 month sentence on the morning of my first production meeting. On account of my dark room experience I was classified directly to the Print Shop in ‘A’ Division developing and printing mug shots. It was arguably the best job in Pentridge. When that red light was on not even the Governor himself could enter MY dark room! After another court case I got 4 years with an 18 month minimum which wasn’t bad for a stick-up. With good behaviour and remission I was out in 2 years and back at Art School with a brand new script, ‘Mike’s Blood,’ the story of a guy who goes to bed one night and wakes up next morning as a woman. It was based on my bizarre gaol experience of becoming a sex object (I WAS only 26 and a damn fine looking young man at that). </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">Then, I directed ‘Terror Lostralis’ which was nominated for best short film in the 1980 A.F.I. Film Awards. Mitchell Faircloth who wrote the script and acted in it along with Tracey Harvey, Simon Thorpe and Gary Adams were members of a satirical C&W band/act known as The Whittle Family. Mitchell and I created a cabaret act called ‘Dr Cloth, The Most Intelligent Man On Earth and Douglas, The Living Experiment.’ I played </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">Douglas</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;"> and made a 10 minute, 16mm doco showing the Doctor assembling me from bits and pieces of body parts scavenged from medical school and bringing me to life with a little electricity and the spinal cord of a dog. It was supposed to be a tacky magic show with tricks you could see through like mind reading. The grand finale was sawing him in half to sever his spinal cord. His death would therefore prove his theory that the spinal cord is the centre of the life force not the brain! When I pulled him out latex guts and intestines would plop out. It was completely different from anything anyone else was doing. We were even on ‘The Mike Walsh Show” and ‘Night-Moves’ I started a stand-up comedy routine, a character called Yonny Stone, a knockabout crim, just out of gaol who spoke in rhyming slang. Then a group of us formed ‘Punter 2 Punter’ a comedy racing/tipping radio show on 3RRR. We were the top rating show for years then we got snapped up by 3XY where we actually made MONEY! We did Melbourne Cup Specials on A.B.C. 2 for a few years. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;">I first heard the name Meher Baba at the first music festival in </span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;">Australia</span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;">, Ourimbah, in 1970. Tully were the band that chanted his name and they had a gigantic 25 foot picture of Baba’s head as their backdrop. They were the resident band for three days and stole the show with their eclectic brand of rock fusion, a cross between Hawkwind/The Moody Blues and Fairport Convention – if that’s possible. They had a Moog (the only one in Oz at the time I believe) and did 3 hour sets. They blew me away and I could definitely dig “Don’t worry be happy.” </span></div>
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Old Fitzroy - - Dreaming blues, karlos?http://www.blogger.com/profile/16126705814934586860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3095588560139397755.post-4535874285231842292012-04-05T22:46:00.005+10:002012-04-06T21:05:20.464+10:00Giordano Bruno<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">He was a suspicious person to the state and authorities; had the nerve to assert the sun was just another star and that there might be intelligent life in the universe. Such talk would indicate he must be on drugs. They put him in prison and when he confessed to his beliefs, he was burned at the stake.<br />
Over seven million of his kind are imprisoned today. The private prison industry lobby gives coin to our Roman police of God and State. At least one candidate for president still lives in Bruno’s age and would consider subversive anyone who would commit heresy against god and State. We have progressed only in technology since his age, over 600 hundred years ago, but unnoticeable in the age of the universe.<br />
There is a part of our brain that has been retarded, remains the same despite the progression of other parts. Might as well admit it, though we have placed symbols like flag and golf ball on the moon, part of our brain like a rat’s brain. The daily killing news might as well be the white rat shrieking at the brown rat or other “different” rats that invaded others’ gates of rubble in their underground, unseen communities. They shriek and show their teeth and kill; there is no such thing as innocence. The populations of humans have become entangled in their land; their wilderness has shut them in. Their numbers have increased, but not their contaminated brains.<br />
The instruments of death have been improved. Fire at the stake has been replaced by the more efficient 9mm bullet. One more sign that Mother Nature can only have her revenge. The innocence has been lost forever. One too many coyotes strung on fence posts tendon tied within tendon, one too many buffalo killed for sport. One too many innocent youths killed. The land that looks like the running wolves will shake off its population like fleas when Mother Nature has her revenge.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Charles Plymell<br />
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</div>Old Fitzroy - - Dreaming blues, karlos?http://www.blogger.com/profile/16126705814934586860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3095588560139397755.post-30819389467428382032012-03-22T19:57:00.007+11:002012-03-23T18:32:58.977+11:00A D Winans<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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Subject: SAN FRANCISCO POEMS by A. D. Winans<br />
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 15:40:40 -0400 (EDT)</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">A. D. WINANS <br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b><span style="color: black;">San Francisco</span></b></i><i><b><span style="color: black;"> Poems</span></b></i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">by A. D. Winans.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSrz41Yt4oYuJss7tPtpj_E-oMYqlHMACFf1Y9FMH-s-GaMjDaU_lnhec9d7w0U1fjEUbngMFgFbj6eQjTf243ST3Co-FUPhX_-JlKAV3Xvvj-Y0GfOvNMF31N9834kbk5wCYt_YT2A4w/s1600/44.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSrz41Yt4oYuJss7tPtpj_E-oMYqlHMACFf1Y9FMH-s-GaMjDaU_lnhec9d7w0U1fjEUbngMFgFbj6eQjTf243ST3Co-FUPhX_-JlKAV3Xvvj-Y0GfOvNMF31N9834kbk5wCYt_YT2A4w/s320/44.jpg" width="294" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">A. D. Winans is a native </span><span style="color: black;">San Francisco</span><span style="color: black;"> poet, writer and photographer. His poetry, prose, book reviews, and essays have appeared in over 1500 literary magazines and anthologies, including<i> City Lights Journal</i>, <i>Margie</i>,<i> Rattle</i>,<i> Poetry Australia</i>, the<i> New York Quarterly</i>, the<i> Outlaw Bible of American Poetry</i>, and the<i> Beatitude 50th Anniversary Anthology</i>. He is the author of numerous books and chapbooks of poetry and prose. In 2002 a song poem of his was performed at </span><span style="color: black;">New York</span><span style="color: black;">'s Alice Tully Hall. In 2006 he was awarded a PEN National Josephine Miles award for excellence in literature. In 2009 he was given a PEN Oakland Lifetime Achievement Award. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;"></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #0b5394; margin-left: 22.5pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>SAN FRANCISCO</b></i><i><b> POEMS</b></i></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 22.5pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">by A. D. Winans </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 22.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">((7" X 10") Paperback, 190 pages)</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 22.5pt;">"A. D. Winans is the poet heart of San Francisco. He tells it like it was and is. This splendid collection of his nomadic movements through the city through the decades is like no other. His eye, sense of the observed detail, his empathy for the ruin and resurrection, is unique. The melancholia of the old days contend with sharp updated quick shots of the city on the move. A rich offering."<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 22.5pt;"><span style="color: red;"> David Meltzer</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 22.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 22.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 22.5pt;"> Feminine force has sometimes been assigned to that beautiful City by the Bay, so it's natural it undergoes periodical changes. It is sometimes forgotten that it's a port, and, one it seems for every stormy life that landed there. A. D. Winans is the first person I know who was born in San Francisco. During my love affair(s) there, it seemed I lived on all her streets, climbed her hills and while high on top of Twin Peaks, marveled at her jewel-like lights strung on streets below. She is almost surrounded by water; a fact the poet Lew Welch often reminded me of. Fog could intertwine in the breath of sailors sipping martinis at the Top of the Mark, as I watched ships pass each other as lovers in the night, a reminder of the old Barbary Coast, or Mammy Pleasant building her neighborhoods through sex slaves and transients, newer captives with each experience a lifetime etched in memory. I certainly left my heart there, at least the presentiment that makes the heart see quicker than the eye. It demands an extraordinary vision to record this city. A. D. Winans has brought its inhabitants to life again for another look, however quick, however deep. <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 22.5pt;"> My sister, who died on the street there in front of an Indian bar was a transient, I was a transient, certainly the people of the tribes were transient as a Chinese lantern of the western moon, but the city always gave up its special feeling of home with all that implies. I met the Frisco Kid back east at a book convention some years later. It took until this day to realize he was a native to this city, and in his poems he identifies places he went as a child that I was to know later and stake a claim to the magical image that always changed yet remained steady. <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 22.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"> As presentiment is to heart, sensitivity is to creativity and the transient nature of this most beautiful city became the fiction that shed periodically like the snakeskin, the lines of itself. Crooners claim to have indeed left their hearts there. Soul singers and philosophers worked on the docks. Jazz claimed it; Opera claimed it; Movies claimed it; Detective Novels claimed it; Rock and Roll claimed it (even built on it) Religious Vision claimed it; Madness claimed it; and yes Poetry claimed it! Even the Police claimed it. A. D. Winans lived it. <br />
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"His mind destroyed by shock treatments<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 22.5pt;"> Rexroth organized the famous reading of Howl in the '5Os that led to the famous obscenity trial where Ginsberg's vision of Marlon Brando, the Icon of the year, led to such hyperbole, even the best minds of San Francisco became forever obsessed. To this day, City Lights Bookstore enjoys the tourist trade from the publicity of the trial. While the author certainly didn't "abandon" his moloch and had no reserve for taking thousands from " Moloch the stunned governments," it changed lives with such force as to create a Beatnik millionaire from a Navy officer and graduate of the Sorbonne, Lawrence Ferlinghetti. A similar institution arose in the Fillmore by another NYC city cat Bill Graham who saw fame in the old Palladium and plunged his vision to the depths of this city. To imagine being a poet who was born in and grew up in this city is to see a history that A. D. Winans records so accurately through his poetry. <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 22.5pt;"> While poets protested against money and government while building religious and sexual constituencies in visionary fervor, or became jaded, or "trippy" Winans kept his style. Jack Spicer frequented and conversed with Winans at Gino & Carlos. Jack Micheline, his friend, who had the chops, wanted to really turn over those ash cans of millionaire dollars seen prudishly by Ginsberg as "Filth! "Ugliness!" before the politically correct safe, academic mainstream took over. Turf also didn't bother another of A. D. Winans' friends, the late George Tsongas. Tsongas wasn't a political poet, but he talked politics every day. I, like them, didn't care for the labels. I could see as much in a Wyeth as in a Blake. The scene shifted again towards the Haight Ashbury (where A.D. Winans grew up a child). The Go-Go clubs flourished while Sonny Rollins played at North Beach dives for a two-drink minimum. At the old Avalon Ballroom I saw a handful of hippies turn out to hear an "unknown" Bo Diddley. Meanwhile, if one looked closer at Winans' poetry, there were constants. <br />
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"I have observed old women<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 22.5pt;">In San Francisco Poems Winans records a lifetime of the streets. They are photographic in that they can see a line in a face added by time, even the atavistic lines, that might cause one to avert one's eyes. For his is the city of many poets, and as Robert Peters offered, "poetry munchkins." So there is definitely turf. But Winans reminds us <span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 22.5pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 22.5pt;">"...that every meat packer<span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 22.5pt;">And fisherman, every waitress<span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 22.5pt;">And construction worker, knows more<span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 22.5pt;">About life than your average poet." <span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 22.5pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 22.5pt;"> I connect with Winans' poetry in memories when I walked the streets south of Market down to the docks always in pairs, if not in groups, with our longshoreman hooks prominently displayed in our belts, for it's an area a tourist would go at his peril, and poets, not that many. But Winans is one of them who did.<span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 22.5pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 22.5pt;">"You can see from the<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 22.5pt;">Look in his eyes the<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 22.5pt;">Scar on his face<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 22.5pt;">That he's someone<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 22.5pt;">You don't want to mess with<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 22.5pt;">His eyes survey the scene<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 22.5pt;">Like a periscope<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 22.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 22.5pt;">He's a two-bit thug<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 22.5pt;">Looking for action<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 22.5pt;">An old beat cop looking<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 22.5pt;">For a head to bash<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 22.5pt;">He's Boston Blackie<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 22.5pt;">And Al Capone rolled into one..."<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 22.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 22.5pt;"> In these lines, Winans not only reveals the faces on the street, but the tragedy therein, where a transient, like Jack Black could find a home. Where the hoboes, hookers, "rounders," and finally hipster poets came to the tenderloin, walked on Turk Street, and ate at Compton's Cafeteria. Her history keeps sucking up the changes, the tragedies of every phony, every dreamer, every hero, and every loser. And Winans' city is unique with the many poets it has embraced. Harte Crane didn't have that situation in Akron. And within that change, that turf, that carnival, that mainstream of visionary-cum-academic, there is an importance to me that I claimed as my home, that space no matter the physical changes, there was the emotion of that space, the space Winans keeps occupied with his poems, that street where my epiphany is his and the poets he knew. It's the hometown he saw both as a child and as a grown up, that very scene that must be read by its inhabitants, its tourists who run into the bookstore, or its poets who must live the boundless postcard, however briefly.<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 22.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
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</div>Old Fitzroy - - Dreaming blues, karlos?http://www.blogger.com/profile/16126705814934586860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3095588560139397755.post-32887075687657601342012-01-19T20:01:00.008+11:002012-01-23T10:59:18.762+11:00deletion<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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correspondence between me n richard krech<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Hugh was a friend of richard krech both posted earlier in this blog.</div><div class="MsoNormal">I posted up richard, and followed with Melbourne poets</div><div class="MsoNormal">dave Ellison and david Shepherd. Then I posted another piece made up<br />
of some email correspondence between richard and me. I have removed it.<br />
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here's a poem by his longtime friend hugh fox (deceased)</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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Brooklyn, Detroit, Gary, L.A., Lansing, I wonder if<br />
the Civil War and the freeing of the slaves<br />
ever happened, my cousins in Chicago telling<br />
me “Don’t go to the south side where you used<br />
to live, man....you’ll be a deadman fast, man...,”<br />
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<h4><span style="color: #000099; font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">In regard to the posting: </span></span> </h4><h4 class="post-title"><a href="http://fitzroydreaming.blogspot.com/2009/12/desolation-hipster-angel-daddio.html">"Jack Keroauc & Jack Karlos' unpublished papers"</a></h4><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">I see in this article a reference to Jack Kerouac's The Scripture of the Golden Eternity ([sic] 1953). It is my understanding that this sutra was composed in 1956, perhaps in </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Mill Valley</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">California</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">--but certainly published by Totem Press in association with Corinth Books (1960) for the first print/edition. Other editions and printings have since been published. Nowhere have I found a 1953 reference.<br />
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</span></b></span></div></div>Old Fitzroy - - Dreaming blues, karlos?http://www.blogger.com/profile/16126705814934586860noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3095588560139397755.post-29770650778030894632011-12-15T23:05:00.005+11:002012-01-13T13:23:44.432+11:00David Blaine<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Dear Karl,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">OK, I have attached the interview with Catfish and a photo of him and his daughter. It's an older photo, but it tied in well because Catfish had a flash fiction about her published at OutsiderWriters a while back, and I linked to it. <a href="http://www.outsiderwriters.org/2009/trade-by-catfish-mcdaris" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"> <a href="http://www.outsiderwriters.org/2009/trade-by-catfish-mcdaris">http://www.outsiderwriters.org/2009/trade-by-catfish-mcdaris</a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">I also attached a poem Catfish published this at his blog, but shortly after that he closed down. So it's nowhere on the net for anyone to see anymore. If you like it that would be a great piece to have re-published, and if you really like it I can send you some more stuff some time. I don't go for grandiose long winded bullshit bongo bios. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">"David Blaine lives in rural </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Michigan</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> and works at the family hardware store with his wife, children and grandchildren." My blog is called "<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">A. Hello Whiskey</b>" and it's at </span></div><a href="http://www.davidblaine.blogspot.com%20%20%20/">www.davidblaine.blogspot.com </a><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Dave</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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ps there is a story going round over here that you, through your mothers side, are related, by marriage, to<br />
Billy-The-Kid, who rode with Charlie Boudrie down New Mexico way! is that true? forgive me for asking<br />
I do so only because I have somewhat indirect connections with the Texas branch of the Ring.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333399; font-family: Batang; font-size: 20pt;">∽</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333399; font-family: "Lucida Sans"; font-size: 20pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333399; font-family: Batang; font-size: 20pt;">∮</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333399; font-family: "Lucida Sans"; font-size: 20pt;">≈ </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333399; font-family: Batang; font-size: 20pt;">≒</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333399; font-family: "Lucida Sans"; font-size: 20pt;"> § ¶ </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333399; font-family: "Lucida Sans";">David Blaine</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333399; font-family: "Lucida Sans";"><br />
</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333399; font-family: "Lucida Sans"; font-size: 20pt;"> </span></b> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="stuff"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">A Small Death</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="stuff"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">You are too soon parted from here.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><br />
<span class="stuff">The August afternoon sun beats down,</span><br />
<span class="stuff">softening the asphalt.</span><br />
<span class="stuff">Aroma of decay wafts in the breeze.</span><br />
<span class="stuff">Green bottle flies swarm and fire ants creep,</span><br />
<span class="stuff">trespassing against your broken form of feathers.</span><br />
<span class="stuff">The quills and vanes still tremble, slightly,</span><br />
<span class="stuff">as air flows through and around them.</span><br />
<span class="stuff">These wings once held you in the sky</span><br />
<span class="stuff">as if pinned against the clouds.</span><br />
<span class="stuff">Their colorful array of bars and stripes </span><br />
<span class="stuff">are still in tact</span><br />
<span class="stuff">but you are at once </span><br />
<span class="stuff">morbidly still,</span><br />
<span class="stuff">and curiously quiet.</span><br />
<span class="stuff">No more does your shrill shriek </span><br />
<span class="stuff">boom down from towering heights,</span><br />
<span class="stuff">to send field mice scurrying to their dens.</span><br />
<span class="stuff">No longer do you return from the hunt</span><br />
<span class="stuff">bringing fresh meat to the nestlings.</span><br />
<span class="stuff">The wind whistles in telephone wires</span><br />
<span class="stuff">and plays a requiem for you.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">=</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><span lang="EN-US">The Luxury of Agony</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">He was a fledgling painter who came from a family of farmers. He said he couldn’t afford the luxury of agonizing over finishing touches. I noticed that his novice gaze tended to jump around a bit, but assumed he was looking at me, hoping for signs of arousal. This was what I’d been craving; this was what his art was all about. With each stroke I wished he would close his eyes, take his time. He’d end up taking it anyway. There was no promise about the outcome; that was part of his ethical code. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">He told me that his work was all about breathing; you could do it anywhere. But he’d almost drowned once at a swimming party, when he was in the first grade. He believed we re-negotiate our roles daily and re-visit the lost battles in our sleep.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">He taught me that context is key, and I realized how universal things are: How my mother used to cry waiting for Khrushchev to drop the other shoe. How we hold our breath now, when a jet flies too low.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">He said that our insecurities allow us into this world, that in </span><span lang="EN-US">Afghanistan</span><span lang="EN-US">, the men write love poems to their friends. I’d long been longing for such an exotic way station, but he’d grown tired of being my back door man. He told me that impressionism actually peaks in the teen years. I worried how strangers, mere passersby, would view us. In the end this hadn’t been my best-laid plan. And he really couldn’t afford the luxury of agonizing over finishing touches. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><b><span lang="EN-US">death as a play in three acts</span></b></div><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
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</div><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-US">childhood</span></div><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
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</div><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-US">lurid leering boogies under the bed bad guy </span></div><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-US">with a gun car crash train wreck greasy bag o’ rags </span></div><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-US">and kitchen match waiting for </span><span lang="EN-US">midnight</span><span lang="EN-US"> to burn my house down </span></div><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-US">khrushchev calls the cold war to order with his 9 ½ D gavel </span></div><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-US">bomb shelter in the neighbor’s basement sleep well tonight </span></div><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-US">god and guard are watching but it’s good friday </span></div><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-US">god’s kid got killed on a cross again </span></div><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-US">and they can’t watch all of the ruskies all of the time</span></div><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-US">adolescence</span></div><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
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</div><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-US">my girlfriend’s brother</span></div><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-US">first one on our block</span></div><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-US">came home in a flag</span></div><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-US">inside a box</span></div><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><br />
</div><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-US">the radio is my messiah </span></div><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-US">cuz’ i’d rather my country </span></div><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-US">than me</span></div><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-US">i’d rather red than dead</span></div><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-US">canada</span><span lang="EN-US"> is only an hour away</span></div><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-US">but the draft is over</span></div><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-US">the month i turn eighteen</span></div><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
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</div><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
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</div><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-US">adulthood</span></div><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
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</div><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-US">success is killing me now</span></div><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-US">my beer and my steak </span></div><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-US">each twenty four ounces</span></div><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
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</div><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-US">death and I have smartened up</span></div><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
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</div><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-US">he’s out from under the bed </span></div><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-US">playing the ambassador</span></div><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-US">the diplomat</span></div><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
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</div><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-US">i know he’s no friend</span></div><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-US">but he’s not my enemy either</span></div><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
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</div><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-US">i can run and jump</span></div><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-US">but i won’t outrun my parent’s genes</span></div><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
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</div><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-US">i find myself wondering</span></div><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><i><span lang="EN-US">what’s next after this?</span></i></div><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><br />
</div><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-US">the curiosity might kill this cat.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">=</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #0b5394;"><br />
<br />
<b><span lang="EN-US">Ode to a Bad Example</span></b></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span><br />
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</div><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #0b5394;"><span lang="EN-US">A curious portrait of postman</span></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #0b5394;"><span lang="EN-US">as dog. Uncut,</span></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span><br />
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</div><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #0b5394;"><span lang="EN-US">cut from the same cloth as all</span></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #0b5394;"><span lang="EN-US">common men. Commonly</span></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span><br />
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</div><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #0b5394;"><span lang="EN-US">seen debauching his era—</span></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #0b5394;"><span lang="EN-US">pissing on everyone’s collective porch.</span></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #0b5394;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #0b5394;"><span lang="EN-US">Falling through life or what passed for it:</span></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #0b5394;"><span lang="EN-US">A state of inebriation— drunk on the heady</span></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #0b5394;"><span lang="EN-US">and ordinary alike.</span></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #0b5394;"><span lang="EN-US">In loose association with loose companions</span></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #0b5394;"><span lang="EN-US">without peers</span></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #0b5394;"><span lang="EN-US">without friends</span></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #0b5394;"><span lang="EN-US">chasing off paternal memories</span></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #0b5394;"><span lang="EN-US">chasing skirts in a most non-paternal manner.</span></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span><br />
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</div><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #0b5394;"><span lang="EN-US">He was on track—</span></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #0b5394;"><span lang="EN-US">every day if he could—</span></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #0b5394;"><span lang="EN-US">burning through bets and betting on getting</span></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #0b5394;"><span lang="EN-US">loaded, laid, </span></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #0b5394;"><span lang="EN-US">fan mail.</span></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span><br />
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</div><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #0b5394;"><span lang="EN-US">A quarrelling brook, a roaring spring </span></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #0b5394;"><span lang="EN-US">of poetry and prose spilling </span></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #0b5394;"><span lang="EN-US">from a soft heart impaled </span></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #0b5394;"><span lang="EN-US">on the thorns of his own rose.</span></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #0b5394;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #0b5394;"><span lang="EN-US">Impetus for perfection </span></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #0b5394;"><span lang="EN-US">in a love/hate relationship.</span></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #0b5394;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #0b5394;"><span lang="EN-US">He commands, advises, implores,</span></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #0b5394;"><span lang="EN-US">even now, past his prime and</span></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #0b5394;"><span lang="EN-US">past his time:</span></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #0b5394;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #0b5394;"><span lang="EN-US">Don’t Try.</span></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span><br />
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</div><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #0b5394;"><span lang="EN-US">To which I respond:</span></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span><br />
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</div><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #0b5394;"><span lang="EN-US">Why would I?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> =</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b>Maybe She Meant It</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">Was that a hatchet or a tomahawk that had just flown past, </div><div class="MsoNormal">grazed his ear, and embeded itself into the plaster? </div><div class="MsoNormal">He instinctively raised his hand to the lobe but hadn’t even noticed </div><div class="MsoNormal">the blood until she pointed to his fingers.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><i>The next time</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i> you touch </i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>my sister </i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>I’ll be giving you a vasectomy with a Bowie knife</i>. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The McDaris Interview</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #073763;">David Blaine: I noticed that in all your biographical material Catfish McDaris is born in 1953 and then the story fast-forwards to the time he came home from the Army and started traveling America. Has he ever had a police mug shot taken? What name appeared on the placard? </div><span style="color: #073763;"> </span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #073763;">Catfish McDaris: Steven Carl McDaris. I got busted at 13 for stealing soda bottles for their 4 cent deposit. I no longer drive, but I did for almost 40 years. I quit 7 years ago, when I quit drinking. After my younger sister died, I drove to the graveyard, opened a bottle of Cuervo & got stinkoed. Cops got me for O.W.I. even though I never drove drunk. I tried to take a cop's gun away; that's the only arrest as an adult. </div><span style="color: #073763;"> </span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #073763;">DB: Tell me a bit about your early life. What did your parents do for a living? </div><span style="color: #073763;"> </span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #073763;">CM: My dad was a master bricklayer. Mother was a mobile librarian, a manager at Sears, & Zale’s, & she worked for Norman Petty Recording Studios. (where Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, & Stephen Stills recorded) in Clovis, New Mexico. </div><span style="color: #073763;"> </span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #073763;">DB: That connection to the Norman Petty studios, what did she do exactly? </div><span style="color: #073763;"> </span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #073763;">CM:<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3095588560139397755&postID=2977065077803089463" name="role_document1"></a> Mom kept the books for Norman Petty. </div><span style="color: #073763;"> </span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #073763;">DB: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3095588560139397755&postID=2977065077803089463" name="role_document2"></a>Did you ever get to meet any musicians that an average Joe would recognize?</div><span style="color: #073763;"> </span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #073763;">CM: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3095588560139397755&postID=2977065077803089463" name="role_document3"></a>I met Stephen Stills, Sam & Dave, Three Dog Night, & partied with Waylon Jennings. Our hometown band was Jimmy Gilmer & the Fireballs, their hits were Sugar Shack & Bottle of Wine. The Fireball drummer used to babysit me & later I was their roadie for awhile. Also I worked for The Shyguys & The Apple Glass Syndrome. I worked with my pal, Bennie Barrow (a relative of Clyde Barrow of Bonnie & Clyde fame) doing a few psychedelic light shows for Iron Butterfly & Strawberry Alarm Clock, but mostly The Flock & Zephyr. (2 super bands back then)</div><span style="color: #073763;"> </span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #073763;">CM: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3095588560139397755&postID=2977065077803089463" name="role_document4"></a>I used to try to play guitar & congas, but I sucked. </div><span style="color: #073763;"> </span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #073763;">CM: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3095588560139397755&postID=2977065077803089463" name="role_document5"></a>I do a bit of drawing, I had 3 sketches in a recent Nerve Cowboy.</div><span style="color: #073763;"> </span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #073763;">CM: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3095588560139397755&postID=2977065077803089463" name="role_document6"></a>Hell yes, writing is an art form, anything you pour your soul into is art.</div><span style="color: #073763;"> </span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #073763;">CM: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3095588560139397755&postID=2977065077803089463" name="role_document7"></a>I went to school mostly in Clovis, New Mexico, except for a brief time in Monterrey, California. I read all the classics, my grandmother & I played Scrabble, & worked crosswords. I loved adventure books, especially about Geronimo, Sir Francis Drake, and Darwin. But I dropped out of high school in the 10th grade.</div><span style="color: #073763;"> </span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #073763;">CM: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3095588560139397755&postID=2977065077803089463" name="role_document8"></a>I was in a hazing incident in the 10th grade. You were expected to buy a huge paddle made in purple & white (school colors) & have the dude's name & his lady's on each side & he was then supposed to try & break it on your ass. I refused & I almost took his life. I also had been taking too many drugs & I was a full fledged hippie, so school seemed like a waste of time.</div><span style="color: #073763;"> </span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #073763;">CM: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3095588560139397755&postID=2977065077803089463" name="role_document10"></a>I was a Boy Scout, played football, threw shot put, ran track, I got along with the jocks & the heads. I belonged to the Tijuana Pussy Posse.</div><span style="color: #073763;"> </span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #073763;">CM: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3095588560139397755&postID=2977065077803089463" name="role_document11"></a>I lived in New Mexico until I split for the army.</div><span style="color: #073763;"> </span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #073763;">CM: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3095588560139397755&postID=2977065077803089463" name="role_document12"></a>I sold 2 kilos of Acapulco gold to an undercover cop, so I was going away for 2 to 10 years. I got the best lawyer in Clovis & paid $5,000, he was to get me off, but I messed with both his daughters & he found out. So, July 71 at the age of 17 I went to Ft. Polk, Louisiana (Little Vietnam) for boot camp. On our last weekend, I went to New Orleans with some amigos to party, we were late coming back, so we were recycled. (did 8 week boot camp all over) Then I was sent to Ft. Sill, Oklahoma for artillery training. I got a 2 week leave before reporting to Oakland for Vietnam. While on leave, Tricky Dick said no more troops to Nam, so I went to Germany for 2 1/2 years. I got out in July 74 & traveled & lived in the Jemez Mountains in New Mexico & lived around Santa Fe & Espanola. </div><span style="color: #073763;"> </span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #073763;">CM: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3095588560139397755&postID=2977065077803089463" name="role_document13"></a>When I was 15 I hopped a train from Dallas to Clovis. (500 miles) I was with 2 pals & we got lost & an old hobo taught us how to survive. A year later I hopped a fruit express in Fresno into New Mexico. I've done lots of short rides & 1 not that long ago. I rode the rails while in Germany also. I've done a lot of hitchhiking especially to Denver, I've lived there many times. I worked at a metal shop, a skyscraper delivering steel doors to each floor. I hitched in Mexico to Guaymas & spent most of a summer fishing. The worst hitch hiking experience I had was in Slayton, Texas just east of Lubbock, a state cop took me & they shaved my head (I was 16). They put me on a work chain gang for 67 days with no phone calls. I wrote long detailed letters of my adventures in Europe. I got my G.E.D. in the army & took enough general college courses through the mail I wasn't too far away from a degree. Things didn't work out though. I worked in a zinc smelter in Amarillo, Texas. I did brick & stone work all over the southwest. I worked for the Santa Fe National Forest Service as a surveyor & firefighter, painting flag poles (that's scary), I worked for plumbers & carpenters. I washed dishes, cooked, bartended, bounced, I was a roadie. Finally I ended up at the main post office in Milwaukee.</div><span style="color: #073763;"> </span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #073763;">CM: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3095588560139397755&postID=2977065077803089463" name="role_document15"></a>I wrote long rambling letters to my grandmother (she was 3/4s Cherokee) describing the army & Germany & my travels (mostly to Holland) & castles. I used to go to a nudist colony outside of Frankfurt & to see all the concerts there. Many years later, when I was pen pals with my wife before our marriage, I started writing love letters, mostly in Spanish. Then I wrote protest letters to the newspaper. My 1st paying gig was Humor In Uniform ($75) for a story. I wrote a western in the Louis L'Amour/Zane Grey style, it never saw daylight. Then I started writing stories & a few poems & I discovered Bukowski & the small press. An Indian editor (Dave Low Dog Reeve) from Zen Tattoo took some words & I told him I wanted to quit the post office & start a catfish farm & that's where the Catfish handle came from. </div><span style="color: #073763;"> </span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #073763;">CM: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3095588560139397755&postID=2977065077803089463" name="role_document"></a>Clovis has huge sand dunes (used to sand surf & have keg parties there) the Clovis man was found there. (prehistoric). Clovis was wet (had alcohol), Texas & the time change was 10 miles east & it was mostly dry for 100 miles, so lots of drunk cowboys. There was also a huge Air Force Base (Cannon), so lots of flyboys. My mom's only sister married a Milwaukee Polack (when I was 10) & that's how I eventually moved to the Brew City. Milwaukee is green & had lots of jobs, Clovis is arid & the railroad or government was the only great jobs.</div><span style="color: #073763;"> </span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #073763;">CM: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3095588560139397755&postID=2977065077803089463" name="role_document16"></a>I've been married for 28 years to a beautiful Mexican lady named Aida, after the opera. We met in Puerto Vallarta, we were both on vacation, her from Guadalajara & me from Milwaukee. While waiting for our first date, I ran into Elizabeth Taylor & her boyfriend lawyer, Victor Luna, I bought them a drink & got her autograph. I kept talking about that almost to the point where I blew my chance at a long & happy marriage. We became pen pals, after I met her parents, & she came to the U.S. a few times. She had studied English at the British Embassy for 8 years, so her English was different than ours. She has a degree in French & worked for a French mining company translating. Aida got her U.S. citizenship 3 years ago after we got hassled on a trip to Paris. We have a 23 year old daughter (Eli-short for Elizabeth), who is just about to get her Master's degree in Criminal Science. I'm not really so wild, I'm like an inside dog I only do it on paper.</div><span style="color: #073763;"> </span><br />
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