The Last Kennedy, 1980

"And may it be said of us, both in dark passages and in bright days, in the words of Tennyson that my brothers quoted and loved, and that have special meaning for me now:

'I am a part of all that I have met
Tho much is taken, much abides
That which we are, we are --
One equal temper of heroic hearts
Strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.'

For me, a few hours ago, this campaign came to an end.

For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."

Ted Kennedy

Resurrection Fern

And we'll undress beside the ashes of the fireBoth our tender bellies are wound around in baling wire
All the more a pair of underwater pearls
Than the oak tree and its resurrection fern

iron & wine

Come here

There's a wind that blows in from the north,
And it says that loving takes its course.

No I'm not impossible to touch,
I have never wanted you so much.

Have I never laid down by your side?
Baby, let's forget about this pride.

Well, I'm in no hurry.
You don't have to run away this time.
I know that you're timid,
but it's gonna be all right this time.

kath bloom

picture of success

I've got my best shoes on
I'm ready to go.

John Betjemen

“Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows."

I'm just pulling on a line

and sometimes it pulls on me.

The line, it inks across the freshly fallen snow,
Where only those embracing coldness would go
It whistles & it whispers, and sometimes it howls,
It sings to me sweetly from the trees & in vowels

The line, it writes itself across the dark sky,
In the electric flushes ending with a sigh
It weaves itself into a fabric so true,
and flows just like river, graceful and blue

great lake swimmers

Petit

As for the false friends who helped and gave up, who helped and betrayed, they are merely guilty of not having had enough heart to move mountains. I forgive you. This is why I changed your names in the text and blackened your eyes in the photographs-to confuse the gods. Perhaps they will not recognize you.

Nicholas' eyes...

"... became wet jewels
the hardest substance in the purest pain
as I fed him in his high white chair."

Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters

Mommie Dearest

If you're acting, you're wasting your time. If you're not, you're wasting mine.

Cyrano de Bergerac

Farewell Roxanne, because today I die-
I know that it will be today,
My own dearly beloved- and my heart
Still so heavy with love I have not told,
And I die without telling you! No more
Shall my eyes drink the sight of you like wine,
Never more, with a look that is a kiss,
Follow the sweet grace of you-

I remember now the way
You have, of pushing back a lock of hair
With one hand, from your forehead- and my heart
Cries out and keeps crying, "Farewell, my dear,
My dearest-
My own heart's own,
My own treasure,
I am never away from you, Even now,
I shall never leave you. In another world,
I shall be still that one who loves you, loves you
Beyond measure, beyond-

edmond rostand

The Worst Taste in Music

He can't forget you
You're quite a find

But he's got the worst taste in music
If I didn't know this I'd lose it

radio dept

Oh No

Arm and arm we are the harmless sociopaths
Arm and arm with all the harmless sociopaths

Little Person

And somewhere, maybe someday
Maybe somewhere far away
I'll find a second little person
who will look at me and say,

"I know you
You're the one I've waited for
Let's have some fun."

We'll take a road trip way out west
You're the one I like best.

jon brion