Peggy had it right, Ken.
Memory at work here, neatly.
Doug
On 22-Nov-07, at 11:28 AM, Kenneth Wolman wrote:
> kasper salonen wrote:
>> I say as much too, re: Bday Lttrs.
>> though I recall a poem called "Moonwalk" that I liked.
>>
>> KS
>>
>
> It is 1995.
> Read about Birthday Letters.
> Ah, joy, it's endless pages of sensationalism!
> Off to the Gotham Bookmart
> defunct now as both Plath and Hughes,
> spend too much money on the poems
> read them on the bus
> or on the train
> catch myself whispersinging Peggy Lee
> (she's dead too)
> the mock-Weill (he's dead too) tune
> "Is that all there is?"
>
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> "I agree with the Chekhov character who, when in a crisis, he is
> reminded that 'this, too, shall pass,' responds 'Nothing
> passes.'"--Philip Roth
>
>
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