|
|
|
THURSDAY Click
on the Stanyan logo to subscribe to the McKuen Mailing List 
|
|
A Thought for Today
Anyone with wisdom feels that they were
born too late, for what has passed will always seem superior to what is
passing now.
Rod is in the studio today.
Details of Rod's next
appearance can be obtained by following the link below.
"Tap
Your Troubles Away" - the music of Jerry Herman
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
Armand Assante o H.
Rap Brown o
Jackie Collins o
Rachael Leigh Cook o
Clifton Davis o
Felicia Farr o
St. Francis of Assisi o
Brendan Gill o
Rutherford B. Hayes o
Charlton Heston o
Buster Keaton o
Sharon LaBell o
Patti LaBell o
Jan Murray o
Frederic Remington o
Anne Rice o
Damon Runyon o
Susan Sarandon o
Live Schreiber o
Jon Secada o
Alicia Silverstone o
Alvin Toffler o
Leroy Van Dyke |
|
 |
|
Silence like a scythe divides all reveries.
Success is the blotter we use to wipe out
failure.
There may be cosmic loneliness, but solitude
is selective.
|
|
EITHER / OR |
|
Since you have
known me
all my life
I would that I could be aboard
the final ship you sail
to see you out of yours.
Yet I could never think up life
in form or substance,
ill health or well, without you.
What then to be preferred,
me catching you before God
in His heaven does
or you behind
to sort my papers out
as I slip silently from sight.
Death ought to take us both at once
but who’d be left to sweep
the worn-out flesh away,
to put it in its proper mound.
Who’d be around to tidy up ?
Careless is the plan of nature,
timetable of the lesser things
like man.
We are invented and thought up
but have so little say
in how we come or go
and come again if we do come.
In truth while immortality
is each man’s goal
I’d rather be the first to go -
if all my needs could be administered
by one who cares.
Should lightning strike
I know you’d run and sweep
the ashes up
to keep the litter from encroaching on
the right of way of others.
-from “Suspension Bridge,” 1984 |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
| ©
1968, 1975, 1988, 2001 by Stanyan Music Group & Rod McKuen. All Rights Reserved |
| Birthday
research by Wade Alexander o Poetry from the collection of Jay Hagan o Coordinated by Melinda Smith |
|
| Want
to comment on today's Flight Plan? |
| Send
e-mail to Rod McKuen or post a message at the Rod McKuen Message Center |
|
| home page today's flight plan
flight plan archives search
this site site map |
|
|
