Nicholas Cage on in movie with Shirley McClain where he's her bodyguard....started to watch it once but couldn't finish it...not sure I'll make it this time!!...sounds a lot like work...
Anyway...the piped in jazz has given way to xmas music...but on thinking on jazz I thought to look up Kerouac's take on jazz....I think there's some influence of Muir's writing in Kerouac's likely via Gary Snyder...the two of them clambered up a peak on the East Side...see Darma Bums...lemegolook...brb...
"so this world will report you well and truly"
Well, he could turn a phrase, and if still about with Steve Allen on piano this kindof thing might fly better in today environs.
Well, I hadn't realized the possiblities of YouTube for poetry...and did a Graves search and happened on some young people doing one of this poems...
...hard to understand...but I got the poem...
quote
Song : One Hard Look
by Robert Graves
by Robert Graves
Small gnats that fly
In hot July
And lodge in sleeping ears,
Can rouse therein
A trumpet's din
With Day-of-Judgement fears.
Small mice at night
Can wake more fright
Than lions at midday.
An urchin small
Torments us all
Who tread his prickly way.
A straw will crack
The camel's back,
To die we need but sip,
So little sand
As fills the hand
Can stop a steaming ship.
One smile relieves
A heart that grieves
Though deadly sad it be,
And one hard look
Can close the book
That lovers love to see--
unquote
Pic isn't mine...snagged from wikipedia....a mountain on my "sometime" list!
DavidDavid
Tree in the Door
Nov. 25, 2007
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