22nd
& 23rd November, 2007
Next month - Rod McKuen
in Palm Springs!
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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
Hope is the pilot light of life.
FROM the¨BOOKS
THANKSGIVING
I appreciate your time
and indulgence God,
because I give so little of my time to you.
I thank you for an unstubbed toe this month
and leaving me with no more bruises
on a tired and battered heart
than those I started out with.
Sometimes tied up in traffic
I'm grateful for commercials on the radio
that take me from the just-announced war dead
and carry me back home to other murders
(those of animals and men
who've not yet had a chance
at aping angels).
It is then I wonder where my God is lurking,
that savior of senior citizens and seals.
The traffic breaks.
The news is over to the tune of Mendelssohn.
Only then do I remember that you're not my uncle
just my God.
I thank you for your kind indulgence
and your time.
-from "The Carols of Christmas," 1971. This poem first appeared in Woman's Day, 1969.
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