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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
Humility is the mirror on the inside.
FROM the¨BOOKS
NORTH STREET REMEMBERED
You’ll have a phonograph
a chef’s hat
and a yellow suit
of your own choosing,
even if we have to
pay for them on time.
A canopy above the bed
that I can chin on.
A headboard
you can prop your head against
and
read.
You can write and polish words
while I sit quietly
in some dark corner
watching.
I’ll teach you music
slowly and without pain
and you can show me
how to make Quiche Lorraine.
I’ve never been up Beacon Hill,
you can take me there.
Later in the summer
we’ll go to that beach
in Provincetown.
You can show me
where you started
writing out your poem.
Don’t you see
I’ve got it all worked out
we’ll follow every sun
there is to follow.
We’ll be equal in all things
you’ll give me youth and you
I’ll give you more of me
than I yet know.
Each other we will give
each other’s other.
I’ll lose weight, you’ll see.
Before we leave for California
Paris or wherever
we’ll get it all together.
I never sleep so well
as when I’m sleeping
next to you
or talk so much
as when I’m talking
at your ear.
My hand
while touching
just your back
has touched the sky
as sure as God has groped
the stars.
Ask my name
and it’s now yours.
Demand my purpose
and you know it’s you.
My needs are only
those wants you want.
And when I sleep this night
or any after this,
though you be miles gone,
my head still rests
against your belly,
moving down.
Or at your back
against your shoulders
moving not at all.
- from "Moment To Moment 1973, 1975
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