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Happy birthday, Marilyn Monroe, Queen of June Geminis (Reprise) [by David Lehman]
We don't think of her as a singer, but Marilyn Monroe (whose birthday is today), sang. Unlike Rita Hayworth and Kim Novak in Pal Joey, Deborah Kerr in The King and I, Natalie Wood…
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Guacamole Treatment [by Erroneous Anonymous]
GUACAMOLE TREATMENT [From The Infant Minstrel and his Peculiar Menagerie] There was once a man With such a long nose That his wife had mistaken it For a garden hose. When…
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Where our hearts do break [by Tracy Danison]
IX. “That is where our hearts break,” She points hard and up up high, to the hazy risen sun, the horizon, up, away. X. Where stars fade. XII. – Her hand picks, twists,…
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“Labyrinth” by Henri Michaux (1899-1984) [trans. David Lehman]
Life is a labyrinth, and so is death,A labyrinth without end, said the Master of Ho. The slave remains in chains.Prometheus is born again to suffer again. One prison opens onto another, Corridor onto…
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In Defense of Dylan [by R. Zimmerman]
To the Editor, I am writing in response to today’s front-page article asking when the time is right for an old geezer past his prime to get off the stage. The piece begins with…
