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Squibs 480-484 [by Alan Ziegler]
480:I strive to arrange my life like a European meal, concluding with my salad days. 481: By all means bring a knife to a gun fight in addition to your gun. 482: I see someone I…
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Learning how to be dead [from “Mr. Palomar” by Italo Calvino]
<<< A person's life consists of a collection of events, the last of which could also change the meaning of the whole, not because it counts more than the previous ones but because once…
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Happy birthday, Mozart — and Jerry Kern [by DL]
Spring 68 at Columbia was the season of the strike,the occupation of the buildings (Low, Hamilton, AveryMathematics, and Fayerwether where a righteousmininster married a young couple), and Mitch and Iwent to the West End…
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They Didn’t Believe Me (Jerome Kern’s breakout song: 1917 )
And when I told them How beautiful you are They didn't believe me They didn't believe me Your lips, your eyes Your curly hair Are in a class beyond compare You're the loveliest girl…
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“Yonder, a Rental” [by Anna Maria Hong]
Time to howl at the celestial sphere,that full frontal silver dollar, the verypaintball of pallor and elemental other.It’s all or nada as noonnight’s empanada discloses her pretty quarter, the priest’s collarhung high on the…
