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Overread at Table 2: Upon Reading Lorine Niedecker's "In the Great Snowfall Before the Bomb"

Upon Reading, “In the Great Snowfall Before the Bomb”

-          For Lorine Niedecker

 

It is hard to believe that I can find myself

falling in lust with poets short-dead, but who
lived long lives, poets who were old by the year
I was born, but whose words, (written for
times when iron ruled commerce with a fist
so much stronger than the virtual e-commerce
that plagues us today)squeeze into my veins
and worm their way into my heart.

Ah! WhomI folling?

‘Tis not your words, dear lady, that
entice me so:it’s your
avi . . . what you would have called your
            stock photo . . .
your soft cheeks, your stout neck, your
thick lower lip that looks so much like my wife’s –
your heavy lidded eyes that gaze, with such
fiercely stoic intelligence, outward toward
the impenetrable dark.

Overheard at Booth 4: a husband's lament

Wow, you know, I would have thought that she would have thought, "Wow, that really hacked him off!  Maybe I shouldn't-a done that.  What could I do to fix things?" but nooooo, all I get is, "Are you for real?  Stop sulking!  It's not gonna work!  Go sleep in the garage if that's how you're gonna be!"

Remember (from a rather nihilist Christian!)

Remember

 

Remember who you serve – the great and living GOD.

Anything that happens to you is according to His will,

                and even if you lose your life, you will gain

                a glorious new existence in Heaven.

 

And hey, at the very least,

                you won’t have to worry about this world any more!!

 

 

CSN in 1991 the Acoustic Concert

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mjbq6K2ziDQ

So glad that the Z&T could accommodate such genius that night.   Special.

Overheard at Booth 4: Imported

So what she really said was "I really think I should be more important to you than anything else" but what I HEARD her say was "I really think I should be imported into Jewland where's the bus?"

So that's when I told her she was a filthy anti-Semite and to get out of my apartment before I called my mom who would come over and tear off her arms and beat her over the head with 'em.

Overheard at Booth 4: Old Couple Over There

Samantha:  See that old couple over there?  Just coming in?

Rafael:  Yeah?

Samantha: They are soo sweet.  Look at that, the way they hold hands.   We should be like that.

Rafael:  Yeah, we should be like that.   You know I see couples like that and I wonder if people our age will ever get there.

Samantha:  Get there?  What do you mean, get there?

Rafael:  Get to that hand-holding stage.   We all want to get there, but we've got no clue what they had to do to get there, them holding each other's hand is for all the times they survived the down times, the screaming fights, the miserable silences, all the times his drinking got so bad he couldn't hold a job, the times she had affairs with co-workers or when her pill-popping got so bad she had to be hospitalized.   They survived the times when they fought about whether or not to bail their kid out of jail, or all the parties where he embarrassed her so bad she wound up in the bathroom crying all night long, all the times they wondered how they were going to pay their mortgage.   We don't have a clue what goes into getting to that stage, all we know is we want it, but I don't think we have the stamina to get there.

Samantha:  What makes you say that?   Why don't you think we have what it takes?

Rafael:  Because you're thinking about breaking up with me just because I won't go vegan!!