tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post4574120964368289153..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: State of EmergencyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-8136227606918754502013-11-21T05:56:07.125-08:002013-11-21T05:56:07.125-08:00We're all waiting on that bus that never seems...We're all waiting on that bus that never seems to come. That's what friends are for -- wind protection.<br /><br />Rain blowing sideways at the night bus stop, two soaked denizens sloshing down the street with coats pulled up over heads, one forming a black cape -- "Batman!"<br /><br />Medicare cane helps with the tottering. The emergency is endless.<br /><br />David, I had thought of you when putting this one together. The Garden State. Not too far from your own neck of the Expressway.<br /><br />And oh, Gil, the man suffered a lot, over a long time, until finally his life became a kind of parable, a demonstration of the truth that Winter in America is not so much a season or a place as a kind of slow stain spreading, a crippling, enervating, demoralizing state of mind.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-21726163251377587542013-11-21T05:17:14.179-08:002013-11-21T05:17:14.179-08:00Beautiful poetry-photo essay. Waiting is a state o...Beautiful poetry-photo essay. Waiting is a state of emergency.<br />Thanks, Tom.<br />-DavidBe the BQEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11621320435990191224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-2079163436186122382013-11-21T00:22:06.113-08:002013-11-21T00:22:06.113-08:00For some reason, your poem and the accompanying ph...For some reason, your poem and the accompanying photos remind me of Raworth's <i>Tottering State</i>.vazambam (Vassilis Zambaras)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14515165428574974933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-34940460042036616742013-11-20T09:52:28.955-08:002013-11-20T09:52:28.955-08:00Great Poem (yours). Yes that's what it will be...Great Poem (yours). Yes that's what it will be like (is). Perez fotos reveal the people, places, yes "essences" --bring them over thousands of miles and time and it is like it is. Good morning. Wake up to the state of the "land of the Free." Gil Scott Heron, great poet singer. But he was wrong about television. Everything will be televised until the power goes off.<br /><br />HarrisUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15235344408979987198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-90629209291169823482013-11-20T08:55:00.099-08:002013-11-20T08:55:00.099-08:00Even the warning signs are detritus. The poem'...Even the warning signs are detritus. The poem's dropped in my head like a seed.<br /><br />The weary waiting faces are something to see.<br /><br />"...the peace signs that vanished in our dreams."<br /><br />Mose23https://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-76302928531846736822013-11-20T07:10:00.073-08:002013-11-20T07:10:00.073-08:00Thanks, Ed. I like this artist's work a lot. S...Thanks, Ed. I like this artist's work a lot. Swift and subtle and accurate in its delicate capture of the elusive urban moment. Those terrific bus stop photos were taken late last week. I like seeing life as it's lived now. The milieu here feels like the East Coast equivalent of the East Bay locales we've seen in the work of Efo.<br /> <br />Black and white suits the tone.<br /><br />That becomes apparent when these same locations are seen in color.<br /><br /><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/Ncsmilparkjeh.jpg" rel="nofollow">(Here's that station in the bottom shot in color.)</a><br /><br />And too I like the understatement. The nonspecific photo captions induce an anonymity. The second photo succeeds in many ways, not least in concealing the essential information we are left to deduce from what we see and from the date in the caption line. The moment of the double-take is the epiphany.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-59166381625102059582013-11-20T06:30:32.584-08:002013-11-20T06:30:32.584-08:00very nice rhythm to the line
"black and white...very nice rhythm to the line<br />"black and white and shades of gray"<br /><br />Perez has a "good" eye ... only via his attitude towards<br />color<br />does one get into (towards) essences ?<br /><br />there is nothing<br />at all<br />quite like a <br />black-and-white-and-shades-of grey<br />image<br /><br />I'm partial to a bit of blue in the black (ink)<br />when printing (my) words) on white paper<br /><br />nice post .... <br /><br />Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-82072632034571086902013-11-20T05:20:26.353-08:002013-11-20T05:20:26.353-08:00Gil Scott-Heron (1949-2011): Winter in America (19...<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA5FCM6oGCo" rel="nofollow">Gil Scott-Heron (1949-2011): Winter in America (1974), live performance, 1982</a><br /><br /><br />And now it's winter<br />Winter in America<br />Yes and all of the healers have been killed<br />Or sent away, yeah<br />But the people know, the people know<br />It's winter<br />Winter in America<br />And ain't nobody fighting<br />'Cause nobody knows what to save<br />Save your soul, Lord knows<br />From Winter in AmericaTChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.com