The line
'For friendship -- I listen to these drums and these guitars'
contains the essence of a Springsteen line. Sorry I cant remember
the song or the original quote. I'll dig out my CD set and try
and find it while watching the cricket for an hour before I
catch the bus to my voluntary job.
Douglas Clark, Bath, England mailto: [log in to unmask]
Lynx: Poetry from Bath .......... http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/lynx.html
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Candice Ward wrote:
> What I want to know is the Springsteen quote! I've been poring over the poem
> and can't spot it. Sure, "it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive," but it
> ain't no less than one to forget rock lyrics in your middle age!
>
> Candice
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> on 8/24/01 5:01 AM, Douglas Clark at [log in to unmask] wrote:
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> > Silly me! I forgot to give the quote which I doctored:
> > 'You weep like a woman for what you could not hold as a man'
> >
> > Everybody will have forgotten my poem by now so it dont matter much.
> > I just read Machado for the last time and filed him. You will find
> > what LOrca pinched from him out of Verlaine as well as lots of
> > lovely landscape descriptions (which I cant do)
> >
> > But he was well worth reading.
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Douglas Clark wrote:
> >
> >> Just checked out my MIchelin 'Spain' and the quote I use
> >> in the poem was said by Boabdil, the last Emir of GRanada, 's
> >> mother to him as they took their last look at Granada on
> >> being ejection. The spot on the road where she said it
> >> is called 'The Moor's Sigh'. Perhaps I should have put
> >> the quote in italics. Too late now. But I did use it for
> >> the title of the Lorca poem. (There is a Bruce Springsteen
> >> quote hidden there as well. . I was listening to his 3-CD
> >> live set as I wrote it).
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Douglas Clark, Bath, England mailto: [log in to unmask]
> >> Lynx: Poetry from Bath .......... http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/lynx.html
>
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