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Sunday, September 21st, 2014
| Time |
Event |
| 8:17p |
"be kind" by Charles Bukowski
we are always asked
to understand the other person's
viewpoint
no matter how
out-dated
foolish or
obnoxious.
one is asked
to view
their total error
their life-waste
with
kindliness,
especially
if they are aged.
but age is the total of
our doing.
they have aged
badly
because they have
lived
out of focus,
they have refused to
see.
not their fault?
whose fault?
mine?
I am asked to hide
my viewpoint
from them
for fear of their
fear.
age is no crime
but the shame
of a deliberately
wasted
life
among so many
deliberately
wasted lives
is. | | 8:40p |
Of course I wrote this after I'd written a lot of great poetry - this is like coming down off it, a post-coital triste so to speak.
Allan Ginsberg | | 9:28p |
Grandfather advised me
(Poet's Work)
Grandfather
advised me:
Learn a trade
I learned
to sit at desk
and condense
No layoff
from this
condensery
Lorine Niedecker | | 9:32p |
Lorine Niedecker's "You are my friend"
You are my friend--
you bring me peaches
and the high bush cranberry
you carry
my fishpole
you water my worms
you patch my boot
with your mending kit
nothing in it
but my hand |
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