Wednesday, January 27, 2016
ee cummings on Abe Vigoda
it is funny, you will be dead some day.
By you the mouth hair eyes,and i mean
the unique and nervously obscene
need;it’s funny. They will all be dead
knead of lustfulhunched deeplytoplay
lips and stare the gross fuzzy-pash
—dead—and the dark gold delicately smash….
grass,and the stars,of my shoulder in stead.
It is a funny,thing. And you will be
and i and all the days and nights that matter
knocked by sun moon jabbed jerked with ecstasy
….tremble (not knowing how much better
than me will you like the rain’s face and
the rich improbable hands of the Wind)
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Trooper Lives!
Good to see ya back Troop.
It's alive!!! It's alive!!! IT'S ALIVE!!! Uh, no, Abe's dead. Really dead this time. He looked dead when he was alive.
Question, sportsfans: Where did Abe look deader? Barney Miller or The Godfather?
Barney Miller for sure.
What did Abe project? That life is a chore. He represented multitudes. Now he's completed his chore.
He'll always be Fish to me.
Ninety four is a ripe old age.
He's inexorably linked to ol' e.e. in my mind, as Vigoda's visage was frequently used by Trooper York to extend the life of that poet's body of work.
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." - e. e. cummings
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