PHILOSOPHIA PERENNIS
Anne Waldman
I turned: quivering yellow stars in blackness
I wept: how speech may save a woman
The picture changes & promises the heroine
That nighttime & meditation are a mirage
To discuss pro & contra here is mute
Do I not love you, day?
A pure output of teleological intentions
& she babbles, developing a picture-theory of language
Do I not play the delicate game of language?
yes, & it is antecedent to the affairs of the world:
The dish, the mop, the stove, the bed, the marriage
& surges forth the world in which I love
I and I and I and I and I and I, infinitely reversible
Yet never secure in the long morning texture
A poor existing woman-being, accept her broken heart
& yet the earth is divinity, the sky is divinity
The nomads walk & walk.
i watched richard dawson's video on "dead dog in an alleyway" and found it interesting and well done
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i am reminded of a song by loudon wainwright iii which i mentioned in an earlier email today prior to seeing this - i wrote and i quote
"Keeping it real" is admittedly a struggle - I think of a song by Loudon Wainwright III - "it's tough as nails to be alive, to be a bee in this beehive/it's tough as nails, it's smooth as silk, it's milk and honey - without the milk" - i heard this song on the radio a few times when i lived in the boston area - the other song by him that got airplay then was 'dead skunk in the middle of the road'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu5hzc2Mei4
wainwright's skunk got squashed, but no cause of death is apparent for dawson's dog
enjoy yourself it's later than you think - here's doris day's rendition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdMWHB6Kz3A
Lodger is clearly the best of the three. I dunno what's wrong with people.
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