POETS DAY! James Dickey
[This entry is cross posted at ordinary-times.com] Officially, the work week’s nearly done; barely a few hours. What are you doing? You’re not getting anything done between now and then. Cut it out and stop pretending. Piss Off Early, Tomorrow’s Saturday. First, a little verse. *** My favorite librarian passed away. I didn’t seen him the…
POETS Day! Lies, Damn Lies
[This entry is cross posted at ordinary-times.com] Officially, the work week’s gonna be over in a few hours. What are you doing? You’re not getting anything done between now and then. Cut it out and stop pretending. Piss Off Early, Tomorrow’s Saturday. First, a little verse. *** “Because, if I am not mistaken, we shall have…
POETS Day: A Boy’s Life
[This entry is cross posted at ordinary-times.com] Officially, the work week’s gonna be over in a few hours. What are you doing? You’re not getting anything done between now and then. Cut it out and stop pretending. Piss Off Early, Tomorrow’s Saturday. First, a little verse. *** Boys play seriously. Words used metaphorically by noncommisioned adults,…
POETS Day! John Millington Synge
[This entry is cross posted at ordinary-times.com] Officially, the work week’s gonna be over in a few hours. What are you doing? You’re not getting anything done between now and then. Cut it out and stop pretending. Piss Off Early, Tomorrow’s Saturday. First, a little verse. *** John Millington Synge is gross. Not really. At least…
POETS Day! Dickinson and Hopkins as a Control Group
[This entry is cross posted at ordinary-times.com] The work week is gonna be over now, or it’s gonna be over in a few hours. What are you doing? You’re not getting anything done. Cut it out and stop pretending. Piss Off Early, Tomorrow’s Saturday. First, a little verse. *** I’m re-reading David Foster Wallace’s essay, “E…
POETS Day! Carl Sandburg
[This entry is cross posted at ordinary-times.com] The work week is gonna be over now, or it’s gonna be over in a few hours. What are you doing? You’re not getting anything done. Cut it out and stop pretending. Piss Off Early, Tomorrow’s Saturday. First, a little verse. *** Carl Sandburg was posthumously honored with a…
POETS Day! A Look at Narcissus
[This entry is cross posted at ordinary-times.com] It’s POETS Day! Friday afternoons aren’t meant to be spent working. Piss Off Early, Tomorrow’s Saturday. Duck out and grab a beer, catch a game, or stroll through the park. You’ve done your part. Enjoy the rewards. First, a little verse. *** Narcissus gets a bad rap. There is…
POETS Day! Richard Wilbur’s Tea with Sylvia and Mrs Plath
[This entry is cross posted at ordinary-times.com] We have a long weekend ahead with Martin Luther King Day on Monday. You may think, given the holiday, it would be greedy to call for a POETS Day. That’s what they want you to think. Piss Off Early, Tomorrow’s Saturday. You aren’t getting any work done on Friday…
POETS Day! Eliot’s 1st Part of the 2nd of Four Quartets
[This entry is cross posted at ordinary-times.com] There’s a BarBQ place a mile and a half from our house that my children like to ride their bikes to, get an order of fries, and spend an afternoon downing soda and reading books. Monday, I hopped in the car for a quick trip to the store and…
POETS Day! Eliot’s Magi
[This entry is cross posted at ordinary-times.com] I hope you get a gift so awesome it makes you feel like that time when you were a kid and Santa brought the big red shiny bike/doll house/basball mitt you always wanted. And I hope you have such a good time with friends and family that you forget…
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