Rod McKuen - Flight Plan


FRANK		Frank Sinatra would have turned 83 this coming Saturday, December 12. We'll do something special then but for now, here's Rod's Flight Plan from June 7 to remind you of this extraordinary talent. Once again, the Birthday List is current. - Ken, Johannesburg, December 9 NIGHT, FOR FRANK SINATRA I can just about get through the day, but the night makes me nervous. Not for any reason except maybe that it catches you unaware, and follows you the way a woman does when she wants something. I've been in every kind of night so I shouldn't be afraid of darkness. But for some reason the night makes me nervous. -from A Man Alone, 1969



		Beau Bridges o Dick Butkus o Lee J. Cobb o Broderick Crawford o Kirk Douglas o Douglas Fairbanks Jr. o Redd Foxx o Hermione Gingold o Robert Hawke o Deacon Jones o Emmett Kelly o Freddy Martin o Dina Merrill o John Milton o Michael Nouri o Tip O'Neill o Donny Osmond o Dick Van Patten o Elizabeth Schwarzkopf

		Immortality must be terrific, no one's ever complained about it. You will grow more if you travel with giants. I'll try anything once, and anything that doesn't hurt more than once.

A LOSS OF INNOCENCE		I do not lament The loss of innocence The gain was payment Far beyond imagining. And innocence is not too much to give To one who'd give you back the world. Down through my life I must be Ever conscience of repayment but to whom? Never mind I'll know the teller when he comes. Don't ask me how, I'll know, I'll know. - from Finding My Father, 1976

Birthday research by Wade Alexander

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