They're from an old album, Patrick.
Hal
"I can't understand it. I can't even understand
the people who can understand it."
--Queen Juliana of the Netherlands
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On Jul 5, 2007, at 2:49 AM, Patrick McManus wrote:
> Hal These as snaps must be a bit faded!! ??not quite hot off the
> wild edge
> of new experience:-)
> Cheers P
>
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> Subject: Snaps July 4
>
> Dead Man's Float
>
> milwaukee, wisconsin. sometime
> near the beginning of the war.
> a 4th of july parade, amid news
> paper reports of bodies found
> dismembered, dumped in trashcans
> along the lake michigan beaches.
>
> we decorate our tricycles
> with fireproof red white & blue
> streamers. we pump along the route,
> waving our flags, grinning
> at patriot parents. later
>
> that summer i fell in a lake
> & survived. my too-old-for-the-war
> uncle began to teach me to swim.
> arms out. legs out. face
> in the water, holding my breath:
> learning to live, practicing death.
>
> --an oldie, from Transparencies & Projections, 1969
>
> 4th of July
>
> Things change: for the
> better or for the worse,
> but they change. Even
> the things which do not
> change cannot remain the
> same.
>
> You stop at small towns
> on the highway, even at
> Murdo, South Dakota. You
> take a picture of it, and
> then it goes away.
>
> --an oldie, from Eclipse, 1974
>
>
> Hal
>
> ". . . the old is too old and the new is too old."
> --Gertrude Stein
>
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