Tic Toc version of Happy
February 05, 2021 - Edison Electric Illuminating Co.
It is kind of where he got his first real start - tho he was in New York in a few months [~] more or less. Some of his co's were HQ'd here. I think that is the case with Edison Electric Illuminating Company which still has its residue - as seen in this sign on an old power plant on Boylston St, just west of the Buckminster Hotel and Kenmore Sq and Northwest of Fenway Park near the Pike and remnant railroad yards I use to climb through on my way to work at BU. Pretty sure I had a cosmic moment meditating upon this power plant one night in time.
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March 01, 2021 - Up and into the Poet Realm, you go, boy-o
THE METAPHYSICAL POETS could upset you to waking sleep
Set you to moanin’ all night long
Secret Catholic and Anti-Catholic messages
All in the service of love
Flighty ruminants that found God’s presence in each element
And pinched the girl’s behind
It was a loose group in 17th-century England
The Metaphysical Poets got the dub
Which was meant as parlor humor put-down
From Johnson and Dryden and the later boys in the coffee haus gang
The badge stuck like Punk
Which was not an entirely favorable cloak
Let’s admit
Like Punk band,
Metaphysical Poet was a put-down but
It turned into a flower
Marvell,
Donne,
Herbert and the crew
Glowed between heaven and earth
Low priests of English intoning in colored tin foil in spats
With tough lines of Sex and Death and Concentrated Thought
Later unearthed when T.S. Elliot found their
Pennant in the playing field
He championed the school for mixing the day and the dream
And being Oblique unto making you thinkIn school I studied Elliot and Donne
In evenings, Dylan and Kerouac
And cloudy chains of American images.
May 23, 2021 - Armacord - This true story took place in Bologna, Italy, year 1972
Brusha wrote a great piece about his younger days and meeting Fellini. So glad to run it on Moon Traveller Herald.
The city of Bologna certainly lived up to my expectations. It is beautifully medieval in architectural structure, yet perfectly modern regarding urban organization and mentality...By now comfortable in my boarding house accommodation, one Friday evening while casually flipping pages of the daily Bologna journal, my eyes landed on an article. It stated that the Federico Fellini would be in Bologna the following morning, casting for the role of the Gradisca (the sexy hair dresser) in his upcoming film are “Armacord” (“I Remember”).
Astonished, I thought out loud; “Are you telling me that this is my chance to meet Fellini?
May 26, 2021 - Reading Blaise
In his epic, the "Trans Siberian" he conveys the feel of film, the epic, Whitman and Rimbaud, the travelogue and Borges-like the library. Not afeard of assonance or repetition for mnemonic effect. Aware of metre. While he travelled he was also found lines in the libraries with the newspapers ... here I read and accompany an excerpt from his "West".
READ ABOUT IT.
September 04, 2021 - Pandemic Ruminations - The Vast of Covid Night
One time passing a Mobil Gas station, where our friend K.D.K. worked. The station was like an Ed Rusha pop painting – pumps, geometries, darkness, light from the repair stalls, red-lit Pegasus. The station was closed, but K., A.K.A. Huey, was working there. He was one of our star footballers – a line man or linebacker - and is always stuck in my mind as a visage with about a 10-stich scarred cut with a bit of blot clotted on his forehead. Some rough footballer games then. He was working on a car, and let us in the work bay. For me, the tubed fluorescent lights, tools, and car parts hummed. At one point, sitting in the car that was his patient – maybe it was his own car and he was keeping it tip top - he pushed the hydraulic lift button which he could hold as an extender box, and gave me a look that said ‘I can push a button and ascend, and I know what I am doing, how about that?’ – he rode the car vertically up into the air - up and down a few times looking me in the eyes with a look saying ‘yes this is happening.’ Our effort at a high-school poetry book, which happened before or after this was in fact called Garage. So, the episode was either inspiration, foreshadowing or flashback. Now of course it is flashback, and has the feel of being in “the machinery of the night” @#$ and all comes back to me on the signal impetus of the Vast of Night.
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