a good sense of that 'after' feeling there, Ken. Doug On 14-Dec-10, at 9:22 PM, Ken Wolman wrote: > I am late at home from a poetry reading > and am smoking, listening to Satie's Gnossienes > which I've probably spelled wrong > but don't care, the memory of what I've read > and heard > renders meaningless > the demonology of technique and correctness. > > I don't care if I got it righ > I got it at all. > I want to play these keys > as if the computer > were a Bechstein or Bosendoerffer > let the music find itself in the scales > trace them upward and down > along my back. > > KW > > -------------- > Ken Wolman http://awfulrowing.wordpress.com/ > > "All writers are hunters, and parents are the most available prey." > --Francine du Plessix Gray > Douglas Barbour [log in to unmask] http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ http://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/ Latest books: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 Wednesdays' http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html ‘What, they’re all Jewish, superheroes. Superman, you don’t think he’s Jewish? Coming over from the old country, changing his name lke that. Clark Kent, only a Jew would pick a name like that for himself.’ Michael Chabon