Sunflower Sutra

edgar - thanks for posting up this poem
It's like a kind of medicine
Slightly bitter but full of goodness and healing

I needed it - cheers

Did nayone see the movie, Howl, about Ginsburg? Came out late 2010.

I saw him read his poems in '67 at Oakland University in Rochester,, MI, but I was too young and distracted to appreciate him. I did burst out crying, though, when he read a poem about sitting around a fire and thinking about love. (I missed my soldier-boy)

I am into Norm Fischer lately. His one-line poems get me.

Fischer, the Zen man? I don't know much about him?

I'm in total agreement here with you about 'Are You Being Served'. At the risk of topic-drifting and (gasp) going astray, please add to that list 'Fawlty Towers'.

Sometimes when I read Ginsburg I think of the Falkner's phrases "full of sound and fury but signifying nothing." Felt a bit different when I heard him recite one of his pieces, though.

Here's what I just found on Faulkner's brand of 'stream of consciousness' writing:
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"Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."
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Back on topic. I preferred Leonard Cohen's poety and songwriting (in the mid-to-late-'60s) for portraying visuals that get etched in my brain with crystaline clarity.

Suzanne

I have a seperate thread on Cohen, ragman.

Then please pardon my diversion. Good thread, BTW!

"Carrion', said the culture vulture.

I don't mind little diversions. Never know where they can lead.

I understand your intent (I think) and didn't want to inject a potential sidestep. Besides I probably was a participant with that Leonard Cohen thread and added my 2 cents there.

This is your party. My 2 cents might make it verse. I'm On the Road again.