20th
& 21st October, 2007
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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
The business of autumn is letting it lie where it falls. The business of man is picking up himself and every member of his family who stumbles in the yellow
leaves.
FROM the¨BOOKS
FOUR AFTERTHOUGHTS
Afterthought,
One
Now the memory blurs.
You didn't feed it.
Not to worry,
not to worry.
I'll keep filling up
the holes until they're whole.
Afterthought, Two
Come then strangers
and those of you I know,
form as one.
I fear you've done so
anyway and already.
And if your name
be litany or lie
I'll love you all the same
if you'll come close enough
to let me.
Afterthought, Three
Maybe all the promises
don't come true
but whoever said they did ?
The day came, didn't it?
Give me a little more time
give us a little while longer.
Look, there are sparrows
on the
lawn.
Afterthought, Four
I'm tired
you'll have to wage
the revolution
by yourself.
Try not to make
too much noise,
the cat's asleep.
- from "Celebrations of the Heart," 1975
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Saturday 20 October
Herschel Bernardi o
Dr. Joyce Brothers o
Roosevelt Brown o
Art Buchwald o
Barrie Chase o
Robert Craft o
Snoop Doggy Dogg o
Margaret Dumont o
Michael Dunn o
Arlene Francis o
(Mother) Dolores Hart o
Charles Ives o
Wanda Jackson o
Grandpa Jones o
Bela Lugosi o
Mickey Mantle o
Brown Meggs o
Donnii Minogue o
Vigo Mortensen o
Anna Neagle o
Fayard Nicholas o
Jerry Orbach o
Tom Petty o
Arthur Rimbaud o
Will Rogers, Jr. o
Christopher Wren
Sunday 21 October
Elvin Bishop o
Georgia Brown o
Samuel Taylor Coleridge o
Carrie Fisher o
Whitey Ford o
Helen Reveles Valenzuela Fujita o
Dizzy Gillespie o
Peter Graves o
Katsushuba Hokusai o
Michael Landon o
Manfred Mann o
Jeremy Miller o
Benjamin Netanyahu o
Alfred Nobel o
Brian Piccolo o
Joyce Randolph o
Bill Russell (baseball) o
Ted Shawn o
Judge Judy Sheindlin o
Sir George Solti o
Georg Ernst Stahl o
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If you can get through the low times (and you can) the high's will come.
Praise is easier than criticism.
A City's made as much from chance and taking chances as it is from taste and tallying and tarpaper.
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MIDNIGHT SAVIOR |
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Have you come
to save me ?
Very well.
I'm teetering
between the earth
and hell.
I'll gladly take salvation
over pot and pills
and cheap red wine.
I'm grateful for your arms
but open up a little more
so that I need not love you
out of gratitude
but only for yourself.
Let me lie against your belly
inhaling all the night air
you let out.
Let me reach inside you
slow and easy, deliberate
so that your anatomy
will be my primer,
your sighs now heavy
my own northwest wind.
Let me probe
a secret place
no one else
has so far touched.
Allow me this small favor
to pull you to me from the inside,
to live inside you half of every night.
The star-filled half.
Don't be discouraged
if I fumble or become inept.
I'll try again,
now slower still.
Then moving to your face
your eyes will dazzle me
as our mouths match,
the insides probing
one another's insides.
Slide next to me. See,
no position is uncomfortable
or wrong.
Such space there is between your back
and each new morning.
Such emptiness
my body and the sunlight
cannot fill.
I'll try, I will.
Remember that you caught me
on the heels of what I thought
was love.
- from "The Sea Around Me, " 1976, 1977 |
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