Hmm ... just catching up with these posts as I'm stuck here in the
Pyreness with a lowly off-on 14000 baud modem -- but those lines by
Waits I've come across before, in a poem by the Luxembourg poet Anise
Koltz (in her late seventies now). The whole poem goes thus, in my
translation:
God
I call you as
if you existed
Get off that cross
we need the logs
to warm us by
Pierre
On Aug 2, 2007, at 4:11 PM, MC Ward wrote:
> Come down from the cross,
> We can use the wood
>
> (Tom Waits)
>
> P.S.Doug, I found a new vampire novel: _If Angels
> Burn_ by Lynn Viehl.
>
> Candice
>
>
>
> --- Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> However you go about it, Barry, I just enjoy, & here
>> I agree, you
>> caught something that feels like a cross-section
>> essence of the film...
>>
>> Doug
>>
>> Quoting Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]>:
>>
>>> I COMPAGNI
>>>
>>> via Mario Monicelli
>>>
>>>
>>> It´s so damp in here.
>>>
>>> Come back down to earth.
>>> Out as long as possible
>>> may be impossible.
>>> Police stopped us.
>>> A demonstration:
>>> give in first & show them you´re acting:
>>> now I say let´s go back to work:
>>> insults here:
>>>
>>>
>>> Barry Alpert / Silver Spring, MD US / 8-1-07 (2:16
>> PM)
>>>
>>>
>>> Written during my first viewing of a 1963 film
>> included within the 50th
>>> anniversary retrospective of Janus Films now
>> touring North America. One of
>>> my favorite actors, Marcello Mastroianni, embodies
>> in a very subtle fashion
>>> the role of a labor organizer in late nineteenth
>> century Turin. How I
>>> missed this film when it was first distributed by
>> Janus remains unclear,
>>> and I was quite uncertain in advance about the
>> prospect of writing until I
>>> could determine whether I had seen it forty years
>> ago and forgotten the
>>> experience. Even after I realized that this was
>> an initial viewing, my
>>> writing was intermittent, but on reading the first
>> draft, I felt I had
>>> somehow snapped a cross-section from the film.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Douglas Barbour
>> 11655 - 72 Avenue NW
>> Edmonton Alberta T6G 0B9
>>
>> That’s not a cross look it’s a sign of life
>>
>> Frank O’Hara
>>
>
>
>
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