tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post339207900937073799..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Let It Come Down (The Running of the Bulls)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-20927382446318561792016-07-09T17:23:39.223-07:002016-07-09T17:23:39.223-07:00William De Vaughn: Be Thankful For What You've...<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDTXljIqxRE" rel="nofollow">William De Vaughn: Be Thankful For What You've Got (recorded at Sigma Sound Studio in Philadelphia 1972, released 1974)</a><br /><br />Though you may not drive a great big Cadillac<br />Gangsta whitewalls, TV antennas in the back<br />You may not have a car at all<br />But remember brothers and sisters<br />You can still stand tall<br />Just be thankful for what you got.<br />Diamond in the back, sunroof top<br />Diggin' the scene with a gangsta lean...TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-70425411211047641822016-07-09T15:53:33.554-07:002016-07-09T15:53:33.554-07:00I always got a kick out of dear Allen G's famo...I always got a kick out of dear Allen G's famous reference to "the best minds of my generation".<br /><br />Then when I found out which of the best minds had thrown its watch out of the window...<br /><br />Louis Simpson???<br /><br />Anyhow, any generation of poets, anywhere, ever, that has provided my own ordinary mind palpable evidence of having had any minds at all in it -- oh. say the generation of English poets born around 1570 -- has always commanded my attention.<br /><br />Lesser minds bow humbly before greater, that's how it used to be, and for that matter always should be, after all, don't you think? Otherwise, how to learn respect, and live and grow...<br /><br />Alas, though, now, at this terrible moment, when there's never been a greater need for the kind of solace, relief and understanding that might be gained from the best poet minds, it sometimes seems there are none left.<br /><br />Of course, I am far too ancient and bent for my fossilized opinions on such things to be of interest to anybody but me.<br /><br />In any case I'm still continually searching the poems of my generation for hints and traces of the best minds. I mean, just in case there were any.<br /><br />And then... as before...<br /><br />Lorenzo, quickest, wisest, deepest, coolest mind of my poet generation.<br /><br />Gone far, far too soon.<br /><br />A number of his poems may be found by looking under "L" in the Contents and More Contents.<br /><br />The more time you spend with Lorenzo's mind the smarter you will be, guaranteed or your money back. <br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRaMuTv47bg" rel="nofollow">Lorenzo Thomas: Chances Are Few (9/18/03): 1/4</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CuNzfFTBHg" rel="nofollow">Lorenzo Thomas: Chances Are Few (9/18/03): 2/4</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvv1e-bfawg" rel="nofollow">Lorenzo Thomas: Chances Are Few (9/18/03): 3/4</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyBVkWC3mUw" rel="nofollow">Lorenzo Thomas: Chances Are Few (9/18/03): 4/4</a><br /><br />For the best poet minds, there is, or anyhow once was, as it has long seemed to me, a sense in which every poem is a news report...<br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iDj1D2OimM" rel="nofollow">Marvin Gaye: What's Happening, Brother / What's Going On</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-2770009557095081972016-07-09T15:35:44.528-07:002016-07-09T15:35:44.528-07:00interesting !!interesting !!Sandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15053707892868584990noreply@blogger.com