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“One More Eclipse” [by Hilton Obenzinger]
August 21, 2017The Grand EclipseI have it in my calendarThe next time it comes aroundI’ll be dead, or at least I hope soBut no Totality here In San FranciscoOnly the Path of PartialityAnd I’m not…
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“It sounded as if the Streets were running” [poem by Emily Dickinson]
XXXIV It sounded as if the Streets were running And then – the Streets stood still –Eclipse – was all we could see at the Window And Awe – was all we could feel.…
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“the revolution: return to new york” [by Andrei Codrescu]
for Allen Ginsberg 92nd birthday: Allen, let’s fix America we are having a revolution: a marketing revolution. we are still in the wine roses goat and sesame seed…
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“Moonlight in Vermont”: Music without rhyme with Sinatra & Ella
For Robert Pinsky, who observed that "Moonlight in Vermont" is one of the only standards — possibly the only one — without a rhyme. I'll have to check; I have a feeling that Hammerstein…
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Let’s take an old-fashioned walk. . .
"But when you haven't a sou, / There's only one thing to do / Let's take an old-fashioned walk, / I'm just bursting with talk. . ." What Irving Berlin wrote in 1949 as…
