February 2012
28 posts
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“A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.”
– Karl Kraus
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In A Motel Parking Lot, Thinking Of Dr. Williams...
I.
The poem is important, but
not more than the people
whose survival it serves,
one of the necessities, so they may
speak what is true, and have
the patience for beauty: the weighted
grainfield, the shady street,
the well-laid stone and the changing tree
whose branches spread above.
For want of songs and stories
they have dug away the soil,
paved over what is left,
set up their...
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“This morning, with her, having coffee.”
– Johnny Cash, when asked for his definition of paradise.
“Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.”
– Alice Walker
this is interesting.
