Wednesday 26th December, 2007

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rod at Dos Vidas. Photo by Thomas Kist from the 2006 Arjan Vlakveld film “Rod McKuen: A Man Alone” for Netherlands Public Television. Photo ©2006, 2007 by Stanyan Audio Video Archives. All Rights Reserved.

A Thought for Today

Know yourself and be successful.

 

FROM the¨BOOKS

ANOTHER THANK YOU

Thank you for kissing me
in the elevator last night.
Holidays meant little
when I was young,
only supper at separate tables
                from the grown-ups.
So thank you for the flowers
and the snow this morning
and for jam from the delicatessen
                         and for loving me.
Thank you for this one-room world.
(All I need
when you are here.)

Today while lying face to face
                             with love again
I closed my eyes to seasons and to skies
and I was younger than I've ever been.
                                           Thank you.

- from "Love's Been Good To Me", 1979

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CHRISTMAS WITH THE MASSES
-The 1961 Christmas Card

 I spent Christmas with a cinder in my eye,
watching a priest eat a hot dog on Sixth
                                                          Avenue
                                    between masses.

Fifth had store windows
with imitation trees and imitation holly
and imitation women walked on the arms
of men with imitation smiles.

My mother gave me five saints’ names
         in hopes I’d be protected
but the enemy’s so silent
I wouldn’t know him if he came.

Smitten by the robber or the robber’s smile
                  I’d most likely turn the other
                                                         cheek.
Like hell I would.

But forgive me my trespasses
        they’ve been few this year
(unless you count the time
I crossed Sixth Avenue against the light
In order that I might be blessed
between the mustard and the relish.)

-from “The Twelve Years of Christmas,” 1969
 
     
 
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