RIP
good work Ken
KS
On 06/09/2007, Kenneth Wolman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> IN OVERPLUS
>
> What carried inside besides viscera
> his own cooking
> the muscle or avoirdupois memory
> of thousands of performances
>
> there is William Matthews' poem, of
> pained porker being carried to his limo
> after singing "Un Ballo in Maschera"
> long ago, almost long ago, 1990,
>
> even then a ruin in the making
> legs and hip sockets incapable
> the bulk grown too great
> not withstanding pain anymore
>
> but this morning the voice
> pristine self, 1972,
> La Boheme filling the car,
> imperfections set aside.
>
> Sent to oblivion the mistakes
> set aside the stupidities
> only the rising in the throat
> only the rising in the throat.
>
> KW/9-6-07
> For Luciano Pavarotti, 1935-2007
>
> --
> --------------------
> Ken Wolman rainermaria.typepad.com
>
> We're neither pure, nor wise, nor good
> We'll do the best we know.
> We'll build our house and chop our wood
> And make our garden grow...
>
> Bernstein/Wilbur, "Candide"
>
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