What then
Tear
The table rocks.
Cardboard cup.
Coffee.
Don’t climb stairs.
Stay in the kitchen,
twist the water on.
Twins
On Wednesday afternoons my mother drove
into the city with this friend to catch a matinee.
She had ten kids in nine years, this friend.
She talked about the theater incessantly,
and sang its praises ad nauseam.
But she usually missed her exit and was late for their rendezvous
and they found themselves stuck in Tunnel traffic
and couldn’t decide where to park and as a result missed the show.
She moved to Mississippi, this friend.
She writes sometimes to say there is no theater,
but George (that’s her husband) is doing just fine.
Sometimes my mother calls to ask if I would like to see a show.
She is always late, then talks incessantly,
commenting on the decor and costumes, insisting she
knows that actor from somewhere but where
exactly she can’t recall and insists
I surely remember. Then we go to lunch.
She sends back the entree (once) or the silverware (twice).
She says I’d prefer her in Mississippi.
Arbella
in the course of human events
human events go by
a beacon a city a hill
people order and form
a more perfect union a beacon
in the course of our forefathers
forth on this continent a new
nation under a proposition that we
form a more perfect union dimly
seen through the mists of the deep
the foe’s haughty host dread
silence reposes in the course of
human events it is altogether
fitting and proper that we do this
and form forth a foe’s haughty
have no fear to establish
a beacon a city a hill a dream
fitting rising living
the true meaning of the creed
Red Train
Stay beneath this bridge
and listen to trains pass overhead.
Water trickles
down steel beams.
The Next Place
Every day means
we’re going to be next
the next place
instantly killing a teacher
a couple of hours later,
wearing a camouflage-netted helmet
conversations about how night fell.
Helicopter gunships devastated
the headquarters police,
the presidential security forces,
the navy, and a maintenance man.
They struck taking certain steps toward openness.
This difficult incident,
several young children.
Schoolgirls have no legs.
No place to hide.
They are for the next place
and the next place.
Glass / Wilson – Einstein on the Beach
Good short introduction to the opera, with highlights. From the DVD, Absolute Wilson.
Candy Says
In 2007, Lou Reed performed his 1973 album Berlin at St. Ann’s in Brooklyn. One of the encores was this stunning rendition of the Velvet Underground’s Candy Says, featuring Antony.
Compare to the orignal:
In Honor Of Bloomsday
Scenes from 1967 film adaption of Ulysses by James Joyce, directed by Joseph Strick. After viewing, buy the book here and bendofbay will take anything we earn and use it in this program.
After #712 (for E.D.)
We paused before a House that seemedA Swelling of the Ground –The Roof was scarcely visible –The Cornice – in the Ground –
