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The shattered water made a misty din.
Great waves looked over others coming in,
And thought of doing something to the shore
That water never did to land before.
The clouds were low and hairy in the skies,
Like locks blown forward in the gleam of eyes.
You could not tell, and yet it looked as if
The shore was lucky in being backed by cliff,
The cliff in being backed by continent;
It looked as if a night of dark intent
Was coming, and not only a night, an age.
Someone had better be prepared for rage.
There would be more than ocean-water broken
Before God’s last Put out the light was spoken.
— Robert Frost
April is over. May moon.
How many more for my regard,
hundreds, a handful?
Better not trouble the dark water due north of north.
Better to concentrate on something close, something small.
This stick, for instance. This word.
–Charles Wright
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
Gerard Van der Leun
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“Thank you veddy much.” Kaufman was a brief comedic comet blazing on by and out too soon. Damn. And the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson was bright, beautiful and over too soon. I watched Jimmy Fallon do it only once and I never returned. He was going to interview Jimmy Page but the 4 minute moment arrived at the very end of an excruciating formulaic soul suck I had to sit through until the end. I never watched the Tonight Show again. I heard Fallon has left the building and I don’t know who is sitting there now.
Geez,that was out and out fantastic. Thanks so much!!
🎶 🎸 The King, yes the King,
He died in his throne 🚽,
He died on his throne,
In his hooooome! 🏰
Near as I can tell, Kaufman started, or at least popularized, the whole Elvis impersonation fad (though I suppose Elvis’ death did a lot to fuel it). That’s a pretty enormous cultural impact, when you think about it.