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Fato Profugus | Stan Morrison
FATE A time-honored unproven source Of life’s blessings and misfortunes, Circular logic has found a safe place, Remarkably complete explanations Devoid of ideas of free will. FATE A venerated imponderable pathway, It’s open to all comers, but with a price: One is still accountable, regardless of claims, A smorgasbord of fables and speculations, So load…
WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: May 24, 2023
For today’s post I offer this exquisite poem “Bicycles” by Paul Hostovsky, first published in Body. If you haven’t checked out this superb literary magazine, please do! BICYCLES Now I would rather remember life than live it. I would rather imagine life than live it. I would rather watch life going on from the…
Shostakovich: Tahiti Trot [by Lewis Saul]
SHOSTAKOVICH, Dmitri (1906-1975) Tahiti Trot (1928) Staatsoper Berlin Daniel Barenboim, cond. (4:08) Vincent Youmans composed Tea for Two for his musical No, No, Nanette in 1927. Shostakovich and his friend, the conductor Nicolai Malko, recalled hearing the tune in ’27 at the Meyerhold Theatre in Moscow in a play called Roar, China. In one…
Enough | Daniel Klawitter
You are swallowed in the belly of Desire – and hollowed out inside because all you have tasted is the cold and consuming feast of fame. Your ego is a whale that swims in the seas of samsara – I fear you have forgotten that the rules of this game demand your consent. And in…
“Stalin’s Holidays” by John Forbes [Thomas Moody]
“Stalin’s Holidays” is the title poem of John Forbes’ second collection. Happy holidays! Stalin’s Holidays The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Juniper berries bloom in the heat. My heart! ‘Bottoms up, Comrade.’ The nicotine-stained fingers of our latest defector shake as they reach for Sholokhov’s Lenin—the verandah is littered…