tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post7272436164826061639..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Charles Bukowski: Girl in a Miniskirt Reading The Bible Outside My WindowUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-88825056119423202302012-05-14T07:23:26.518-07:002012-05-14T07:23:26.518-07:00Accurate placement of "verlander'd" ...Accurate placement of "verlander'd" aboard my personal canon requires return trip to Fan Poems and, yes, Bill Lee did threaten he'd "Van Goghed" Larry Barnett. Then I spot: <br /><br />I wake up on Mother's Day<br />with tears in my eyes<br />for my dead father<br />and a song in my ears<br />it's my daughter singing<br />"Take Me Out To The Ballgame"<br /><br />Berkson's back cover pic: for years my vision of heaven on earth. Hear my grandson Finn now sing that song at Comerica, his sister's t-ball games, and for his mother and her mother on this day the dream alive.kenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12448791356455016794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-14784861715257962932012-05-14T01:44:13.105-07:002012-05-14T01:44:13.105-07:00Wonderful poem. I agree with A. -- they are dream...Wonderful poem. I agree with A. -- they are dreaming about tracking down little animals. One of our cats -- a cream-colored Persian named Claude -- artfully distributes papers he finds on my desk most nights in amazing patterns across the floor and sometimes up and down the stairs. During the act of creation, his vocalizations are varied, piercing and a little disturbing. When his work is completed he is silent and returns to bed. He should, as they say, be in a museum. (Or, rather, his work should.) Our dog Edie has two different colored eyes. CurtisACravanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-16063542248520165002012-05-13T23:22:41.804-07:002012-05-13T23:22:41.804-07:00Manik, I think you've homed in on what's s...Manik, I think you've homed in on what's so interesting about this poem. Hands imagined as clapping in rhythm or hands imagined as clasped in prayer, eyes looking up to the sky above the Orthodox church or eyes captured by the swaying dancer reading the Bible... but a few of the many varieties of religious experience?<br /> <br /><br />Hazen,<br /><br />Well, the soppy marketing aspects notwithstanding, something (diabolical?) hinted that Mother might not mind a shot to spice up her Day. <br /><br />Possibly even a double.<br /><br /><br />Nin,<br /><br />One of the cats here does that to Angelica when he wants her to wake up. Another of them expresses the same desire by yodeling. A third has the nocturnal mission of vigorously sucking on my earlobes. Weird, but certainly gets one's attention. However I expect the purpose of this curious behaviour is not to awaken, but to reawaken... memories of a mother removed too soon?<br /><br />Cats dreaming, one can hear their small vocalizations. A. thinks they are dreaming about tracking down little animals. <br /><br /><br />Kent,<br /><br />You know you are my main man. Even on a day when the local sandlot gang was being totally verlander'd.<br /><br />(Though it required all five fingers, possibly an asterisk'd detail).TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-89726956179539954792012-05-13T21:31:33.269-07:002012-05-13T21:31:33.269-07:00Tom,
It is maybe only coincidental that i saw an o...Tom,<br />It is maybe only coincidental that i saw an odd eyed cat a week ago who regularly shows up at my grandmother's kitchen door..The turkish are fond of them...As according to them "the eyes must be as green as the lake and as blue as the sky"...<br />As for charles' immortalization of the fact that very little passes between the hands that clap and those who rather point a finger or two at one other or oneself might just salvage something...i agreemanik sharmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18055072451804840121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-46995658664473058512012-05-13T13:01:23.179-07:002012-05-13T13:01:23.179-07:00Bukowski always adds spice to the day.Bukowski always adds spice to the day.Hazenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13417573435195561519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-83381429305220845322012-05-13T11:02:19.686-07:002012-05-13T11:02:19.686-07:00Wait a minute, did you just flip me off...twice?
...Wait a minute, did you just flip me off...twice? <br /><br />Btw, anyone ask you this week if you’d read C. David Heymann’s quote from his NYT obit:<br /><br />“I learned from this,” he told The New York Observer in 1999, “never write a book about a poet if you want to sell books.”<br /><br />Bless you, Tom, for ignoring the obvious.kenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12448791356455016794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-52327798320218283592012-05-13T10:37:42.191-07:002012-05-13T10:37:42.191-07:00I love this one. And the cat. And all the cats I...I love this one. And the cat. And all the cats I have known and owned, though the last one used to bat my eyes when I was dreaming. Taught me to remember my dreams . . .Nin Andrewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12643167108589844026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-86364630126238788902012-05-13T07:22:53.501-07:002012-05-13T07:22:53.501-07:00This prophecy was spoken in the Old Testament also...This prophecy was spoken in the Old Testament also, in reference to The Miraculous Pitching Hand mentioned in The Book of <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/Mordecai_Brown_3_fingers.JPG" rel="nofollow">Mordecai</a>.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-70557200348019077052012-05-13T07:02:25.733-07:002012-05-13T07:02:25.733-07:00Ya know Tom, when our own heterochromiac Max Scher...Ya know Tom, when our own heterochromiac Max Scherzer tosses a great game, Tigers fans say, "he pitched THAT one with the blue eye." Too often this year, he's been throwing brown.kenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12448791356455016794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-23991412555651795372012-05-13T05:22:51.943-07:002012-05-13T05:22:51.943-07:00By the by, this is not the first time we here have...By the by, this is not the first time we here have been, by this same hip cat, <a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/charles-bukowski-startled-into-life.html" rel="nofollow">startled into life</a>.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.com