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27th & 28th October, 2007		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 It is not possible to love fully and not be in receipt of more than you have given. FROM the¨BOOKS SUPPER All hills and gullies mounds and little mountains you rise up early in the night In dreams so real that sleep and waking meet, dissolve and blur. A sacrament you are made of salt and tasting not unlike cinnamon or soda water as I pull you to me. A meal you are. A meal you make of me. We devour one the other as though we were some hungry giants having fasted all the winter hungry now for spring. I see no end to this stored-up appetite this emptiness that only loving up and down a lifetime will fill up. I have wished too much or just enough to bring you here almost to the final step. One meter gone or one mile away you are just out of reach or too near to make perspective work. -from the album "Sleep Warm", 1974. Click on the Stanyan House logo to buy Rod McKuen books, CD's and lots more Click on the heart logo to subscribe to the Rod McKuen mailing list Catch Rod McKuen live! Click on the links below for details of concerts and appearances. ROD McKUEN CONCERTS ROD McKUEN APPEARANCES



		Saturday 27 October Larry Baillie o Jack Carson o John Cleese o Fred DeCordova o Kathy Cornelius o Floyd Cramer o Ruby Dee o Nanette Fabray o Peter Firth o Wayne Fontana o Lee Greenwood o H.R. Haldeman o Jayne Kennedy o Cleo Laine o Simon LeBon o Fran Lebowitz o Roy Lichtenstein o Marla Maples o Margaret Naylor o Kelly Osbourne o Sylvia Plath o Emily Post o Theodore Roosevelt o Lyle Rote o Carrie Snodgress o Dylan Thomas o Ted Wass o Scott Weiland o Robert White o Teresa Wright Sunday 28 October Jane Alexander o Captain James Cook o Charlie Daniels o Desiderius Erasmus o Dennis Franz o Bill Gates o Dody Goodman o Howard Hanson o Edith Head o Neal Hefti o Lauren Holly o Bruce Jenner o Bowie Kuhn o Cleo Laine o Elsa Lanchester o Bruce Morton o Suzy Parker o Joaquin Phoenix o Joan Plowright o Annie Potts o Julia Roberts o Dr. Jonas Salk o Evelyn Waugh

		Why imitate? Trust your own ideas. It's nice to have someone to look good for. Selfishness doesn't work for very long. Guard against the folly of only thinking of yourself.

GIFTS FROM THE SEA / Three		You see how easily we fit together, as if God's own hand had cradled only us and this beach town's population were but two and this wide bed but a child's cradle with room enough left over for presents. Tomorrow I'll buy you presents. Pomegranates and breadsticks, tickets round the room and back and red, red roses like everybody buys everybody. Everybody's got a diamond ring And Sunday shoes. Neckties and petticoats, pistols and tennis balls. What pleases you? I'd hock my watch to buy you Greece or sell my car to bring you rickshaws from Rangoon. All they had down at the corner were poppies with some lemon leaves. They'll have to do till I can bring home Union Square. I found a twenty-dollar bill when I was ten. I bought a cardboard circus and a fountain pen and a jackknife because I never had one before. My mother thought I'd stolen the money. I bought her perfume from the dime store, She believed me then. I was rich in those days, for a week I had everything. I wish I'd known you then. - from the album "The Sea" & "Listen To The Warm," 1967

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