7th & 8th November, 2005
Rod in Concert
Holland, December 2005!
San Sebastian Strings
albums now available on CD! Order
now!
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Photo by Edward McKuen 9/24/2005
A Thought for Today
Let’s be a
little nicer to each other, everyone is fighting a hard battle.
FROM the¨BOOKS
EITHER / OR
Since you have
known me
all my life
I would that I could be aboard
the final ship you sail
to see you out of yours.
Yet I could never think up life
in form or substance,
ill health or well, without you.
What then to be preferred,
me catching you before God
in His heaven does
or you behind
to sort my papers out
as I slip silently from sight.
Death ought to take us both at once
but who’d be left to sweep
the worn-out flesh away,
to put it in its proper mound.
Who’d be around to tidy up ?
Careless is the plan of nature,
timetable of the lesser things
like man.
We are invented and thought up
but have so little say
in how we come or go
and come again if we do come.
In truth while immortality
is each man’s goal
I’d rather be the first to go -
if all my needs could be administered
by one who cares.
Should lightning strike
I know you’d run and sweep
the ashes up
to keep the litter from encroaching on
the right of way of others.
-from “Suspension Bridge,” 1984
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