15th & 16th October, 2005
Rod in Concert
Holland, December 2005!
San Sebastian Strings
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Photo by Edward McKuen 9/24/2005
A Thought for Today
Whatever you have planned for the day
start by cutting it in half.
TO BEGIN WITH
Another all-nighter, catching up on business mail that just won’t go
away. I’m sure my correspondents are sighing a collective, “it’s about
time.” I liked life better when I had a secretary.
Two double CD’s to master over the weekend, one for Zone Records in
London and another for BR in Holland, a total of 72 tracks. Wednesday I
get back to working on the new U. S. disc and perhaps a day or two off
before working on the first release of The Elements Trilogy and resuming
the hard disc back up of forty years of released and unreleased masters.
My life isn’t just flashing before me; the re-run is going so fast that
I couldn’t catch it if I wanted to.
FROM the¨BOOKS
Two Poems from The Sea Around Me
PRISON
Leaning up against the wall
in the
half-light
I couldn’t let you pass
without one final smile.
So it was
I tiredly undressed
not turning round again
till I had finished.
Three steps toward the door
and you had gone.
I cannot stay
within this room alone
or crawl back into bed
without your being here.
I am a prisoner
in my own jail,
for what place can I go
if I can’t follow,
be with you?
My brain and stomach
both are empty.
My insides drain
as each hour passes
outside your company
and company.
The only thing I know
is your full body
all else has been
erased for me.
- From "The Sea Around Me, " 1976, 1977
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Saturday 15 October
Jere Burns o Richard Carpenter o Ina Claire o Jane Darwell o Sarah Ferguson o Michael Foucault o John Kenneth Galbraith o Peter Haskell o Lee Iacocca o Tito Jackson o Emeril Lagasse o Linda Lavin o Mervyn LeRoy o Penny Marshall o Barry McGuire o Kenny Miller o Kyletta Miller o Friedrich Nietzsche o Jim Palmer o Jean Peters o Mario Puzo o Jose Quintero o Arthur Schlesinger o Robert "PapaSco" Scofield o C.P. Snow o John Sullivan o Roscoe Tanner o Robert Trout o Virgil o P.G. Wodehouse
Sunday
16 October
National Boss Day (USA)
Max Bygraves o Chuck Colson o Linda Darnell o William O. Douglas o Flea o Gunter Grass o Jeremy Jackson o Bert Kaempfert o Angela Lansbury o John Loudon o Kellie Martin o Eugene O’Neill o Alice Pearce o Tim Robbins o C.P. Snow o Suzanne Somers o Morgan Stevens o Noah Webster o Oscar Wilde |
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Even when my memory has a favored day, some prisoners refuse escape.
What I want is not to be held accountable
for what I said today, or yesterday, so that my tomorrows can stay open.
Fat chance.
Love, the veteran of all wars, wins more
battles than the sharpest sword.
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I admit that I
am shy.
More so with those faces
and those forms
that I start to love
with but one look only.
Back in the room
we had no liquor
and no
radio
no aphrodisiac but need.
Oh, I needed you. I did, I do.
your bushy head
and your round eyes,
your thighs
to wrap myself around,
your intermittent smile
and stare.
Your caring for me
then and now.
I pushed a pillow
soft beneath your head
and murmured love
from the beginning.
I knew. Don’t ask me how.
That we were starting
what could not be finished
in our lifetimes.
Here we are
and those tomorrows
left or owed to me,
borrowed and as yet
unbought for you
will not be enough.
We should move
toward the heavens
or at least above the earth
somewhere
for always.
Though I know
need is not enough
perhaps this time
simple wanting
will transcend all this
and everything.
- From "The Sea Around Me, " 1976, 1977 |
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