Funny, Ken, the Lynn Lifshin greyhound... well I don't think I'll put any money on the race. :o)
Deborah Russell
Rehoboth Beach, Delaware
> Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 10:09:08 -0500
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> Subject: About Lynn Lifshin
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>
> CHASING LYNN
>
> I wish I could run like a new breed,
> the Lynn Lifshin Greyhound.
> Maybe I could catch her. I doubt it.
> I've been chasing her for 20 years.
> I'd like to be in one publication
> before she gets there. Fat chance.
>
> If they ever issue a Collected Lifshin
> it will make the collected Frank O'Hara
> look like a thin-paper pocket New Testament.
> Lynn is the not-so-mechanical lure
> who for 20 years kept me chasing her
>
> not for personal conquest but to leave her
> in my dust, in my ego-driven quest for
> some sort of loony personal glory.
> I suppose I try to vanquish time.
> But we know it's not going to happen. So at last
> I've quit running, Lynn. I don't care anymore.
>
> When I lose the final race the track owners,
> if they don't shoot me, will adopt me out
> to some nice family of greeting card writers
> who will take me on walks on the beach, and
> let me lay my snout on the couch
> watching Oprah.
>
> KTW/3-5-10
>
> --
> ----------------------------
> Ken Wolman
>
> http://awfulrowing.wordpress.com
> http://opensalon.com/blog/kenneth_wolman
> http://wearethecure.org/friends/cids-memory-p-394.html
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