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Rod at
Dos Vidas. Photo by Thomas Kist from the 2006 Arjan Vlakveld film “Rod
McKuen: A Man Alone” for Netherlands Public Television. Photo ©2006,
2007 by Stanyan Audio Video Archives. All Rights Reserved.
A Thought for Today
Love all or love nothing. It makes no difference to
anyone’s life but yours.
FROM the¨BOOKS
LOOKING FOR A FRIEND
If one thousand men
walking through this world
room to room to room
then home again
ask the favor of
your friendship
know that I am one
within the thousand.
If one hundred men
making do within this world
in city places
or the kindest country
fall down fighting for
your friendship
know I am on the battlefield
amid the hundred.
If twenty men
who know and knew this world
from crested hills
to uncrowned valley
send letters breathing friendship
expect my letter soon
among the twenty.
If one man
living in this too-grey world
running crooked roads
or pacing pavements
comes in need of friendship
be not amazed or disbelieve,
I am that one man.
If no one comes to you
carrying a new world
in his arms or at his back
in a rolling wagon
offering it to you out of friendship
know that I have been detained
but even now am on my way.
Still no one comes
to you within this world
when two dozen years
of half of that has passed
and you feel friendless
come and seek me out
for I'll be lifeless in a grave
and gone.
Perhaps you were hiding
or concerned with other
larger things
but know that while I lived
I went on looking.
- from "Looking for a Friend," 1980
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