It’s a neat 4 lines, Barry. Went or need. somehow the here will be found…
Doug
> On Jan 3, 2018, at 6:48 AM, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> OF JONAS MEKAS DOC
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> If they want, if they need . . .
> they are here.
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> Of reaching that point of intensity.
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> Not a poet to a horse.
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> Barry Alpert /Wash DC>>Rockville MD US / 01-01-18 (8:32AM)
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> Just found & couldn't resist posting in light of Bill's 4-line found text out of an overheard conversation. My source, Jonas Mekas, now 95, published his first book of poems (in Lithuanian) at age 14. He's better known as a filmmaker & advocate of the "poetic cinema".
Douglas Barbour
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Swept snow, Li Po,
by dawn’s 40-watt moon
to the road that hies to office
away from home.
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