23rd & 24th August, 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Photo by Jay Hagan, 7/12/08 Burbank, CA

A Thought for Today

Strength is not the fortress, but the blocks that build it.

 

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ROD McKUEN CONCERTS

ROD McKUEN APPEARANCES
notable birthdays

Saturday 23 August

Arthur Adamov o Rex Allen, Jr. o Nicole Bobek o Kobe Bryant o Bob Crosby o Barbara Eden o Gene Kelly o Ernst Krenex o Shelley Long o Louis XVI of France o Edgar Lee Masters o Patricia McBride o Vera Miles o Keith Moon o Jay Mohr o Oliver Perry o River Phoenix o Mark Russell o Marian Seldes o Rick Springfield o Tex Williams

Sunday 24 August

Yasser Arafat o Kenny Baker o Audrey Beardsley o Max Beerbohm o Cardinal Cushing o Preston Foster o Rupert Grint o Steve Guttenberg o Dennis James o Jean-Michael Jarre o Duke Kahanamoku o Craig Kilborn o Durward Kirby o Marlee Matlin o Cal Ripken, Jr. o Louis Teicher (Ferrante & Teicher) o Mason Williams
Rod's random thoughts Never be afraid to be ambitious toward honor.

As long as we have children, we are of independent means.

Railroad trains are like a train of thought, not easily set out of mind.

LOS HOMBRES

 They come before dawn
with rifles and dogs
and fenced-in flatbed trucks,
a man has to be
a fool to be caught
unless he's asleep
or making love
( both forbidden
         if one would live ).

Bandits they are
with beards over ears
smiling as each ripe head
         they crack open
spills its watermelon seeds
and rolls down to the gutter.

Early this morning
they killed a guitar
and laughed as its splinters
         spilt the air.
There is no armor
against Los Hombres -
their bayonets slice steel.

And where are
the carpenters of the sun
when the mob comes riding in -
lost or dead or locked away ?
Poisoned in beds
without turning over
to meet their destroyers' eyes.
And all the funeral gardenias
                 are dead
used up in an earlier revolution.

- from "Intervals", 1986
 
     
 
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