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Rod 2002 Birthday Photograph
Photo by Bob Gentry 4/24/2002
A Thought for Today
Common sense sees the
visible; imagination goes beyond.
AFTERWARDS AND AFTERTHOUGHTS
When it's over, love, someone's
birthday, the big game or the funeral, words not only come to mind that should have been
said earlier if the brain was always working, but recriminations and prayers for replay
fill the mind and work it overtime. A conversation in the head long after every chance has
passed is not unusual, more the rule.
After every loss or what we term to be our losses, a hundred master plans are planned, a
dozen avenues we might have taken, had not a certain road been blocked, stretch out before
us like a city map.
Finally the afterthoughts afterward are lost like all the melodies that had no meaning and
the memories that did.
- from "Alone", 1975
Catch Rod McKuen Live!
MAY 17, 2002 B.B. King's Blues Club, NYC
MAY
19, 2002 The Birchmere
Theatre, Alexandria, Virginia
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Good is positive; evil not merely negative, but primitive.
When being judged, never ask "compared to what?" You
may receive an answer.
No peace is ever perfect, and no war is ever won.
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Scarlet is the space
that flushes out
the folded cloud lines
in the western sky
between the silent surface
of the sea.
In only moments
the space will narrow,
grow quite red,
then quiet pink-and go.
And still the old man
does not come
to lead the cattle home.
Whatever mystery has made him late,
the animals are restless now.
Should I start down the road,
they'd follow -
Gladly I would lead them home
but by which road?
That seems to be the center,
the heart and edge
of every quandary.
Which road? When to take it?
How to know for sure.
I have found -
when doubting most -
that up ahead is always up ahead
and however many turns
the right or left road
makes
it always leads to right or left.
I do not imagine
what I've said or say
will offer much encouragement
to the would-be traveler
but the information, once distilled,
should say
the only way to get there is to go.
- from "The Beautiful Strangers", 1981 |
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