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WHEN in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary….
Welcome to the New American Digest: 2003-2020
He thought he kept the universe alone;
For all the voice in answer he could wake
Was but the mocking echo of his own
From some tree-hidden cliff across the lake.
Some morning from the boulder-broken beach
He would cry out on life, that what it wants
Is not its own love back in copy speech,
But counter-love, original response.
And nothing ever came of what he cried
Unless it was the embodiment that crashed
In the cliff’s talus on the other side,
And then in the far distant water splashed,
But after a time allowed for it to swim,
Instead of proving human when it neared
And someone else additional to him,
As a great buck it powerfully appeared,
Pushing the crumpled water up ahead,
And landed pouring like a waterfall,
And stumbled through the rocks with horny tread,
And forced the underbrush–and that was all.
Gerard Van der Leun
When all Earth’s seas shall Levitate,
Dark shawled within the skies,
Upon our eyes will Starfish dance
Their waltz of Blind surprise.
The sun will Rise within wine Dark
As Argonauts imbibed,
Whose drunken arms embrace that sleep
Where Phaeton’s horses Stride.
Upon all of Earth’s wind-sanded shores,
As dolphins Learn to soar,
All we once were on the land
Shall be sealed behind the door
Of Ivory and Chastened Gold,
That the Mystery solved complete
Shall never til the seas’ Long fall
Wake mariners from their sleep.
— Van der Leun
I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
My tongue, every atom of my blood, form’d from this soil, this
air,
Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their
parents the same,
I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,
Hoping to cease not till death.
— Walt Whitman
Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me.
I have seen them riding seaward on the waves
Combing the white hair of the waves blown back
When the wind blows the water white and black.
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.
— The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot
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I got nuthin’.
Wut?
Hahahahahahaha! Funny stuff.
Except for Hattie & Billy, which is obviously a “Chitlin Circuit” double-entendre comedy-songs LP, I’m curious as to what they *sound* like. Could the music *possibly* be as insufferable, ugly, or grotesque, as the sleeves are?
Hey Svetlana, can you air up my bassitball again?
Once you’ve tasted Dick Black you’ll never go back.
Saggy udder day at the dairy farm.
Sandwiching sweet Mrs Mills between the Tit for Tat naked Vampirina chick? That’s just naughty,Gerard. And funny.
The Malden album is disturbing. He looks like he’s channeling a clean-shaven John Wayne Gacy, and the young lady looks like a Happy Juggalo.
Put Clooney’s face for Malden’s,reading the speeches of BHO,with a transgender Bullwhip Griffin to his right, and it’s just another day at Disney, 2018. The more it changes, the more it stays the same.
Gerard-
Do you still have the one I sent you a couple of years ago?
I was disappointed not to see “Keep It Gay” in that collection.
Everything about that Karl Malden record is wrong.
Maya Angelou, whore dancing around an african camp fire while softly cooing black, feminist, MauMau love poetry is a pure picture of that old mammy.
“Do you still have the one I sent you a couple of years ago?
I was disappointed not to see “Keep It Gay” in that collection.”
Sorry. Must have missed that. I’ll look.
… Nope. Didn’t see it under the comcast or yahoo addresses.
Wait…wait, no, no…wait.
“Uncle Jemima Soap”?
I have that Anna Russel album. An interesting relic. It is comedy and music that at the time would have been decidedly middle-brow but to get it you really had to have some underlying knowledge. Unlike the most of the “comedy” today.
Don’t get me wrong, I love me some Diceman, but it’s a nice change of pace to hear comedy that requires a brain.