Then here one Tuesday a month ago it was Valentine s Day and Decca ever so casually asked me if I was going to do love poetry that day. It was a beautiful idea which frankly had not crossed my mind so I asked her if she would join me on air for a love poetry session Collett intitled opinions belated Valentine s show Decca thanks for expecting my invitation. Well thank you for inviting me to join you Robert it s nice to be here to discuss something other than music that s true and I have to say sadly it s. Something like a farewell show for us for at least a quarter because the baseball season starting and your regular slot from $6.00 to $9.00 on Tuesdays is going to be taken over by K.C. s huge baseball broadcast. And I don t know I mean I m going to be applying for my regular slot next quarter and that means that you won t be following me anymore and that I won t be seeing you we can we week out as I used to maybe until next year you know the weather keeps continuing to be bad I ll b
Yes With most poems I was in the basement of the gym at the University of California Riverside where I was an undergraduate and the bookstore had just received the paperback of life studies and I plucked it off the shelves and I opened it and I read this poem a man and wife. Tamed by Milton. Rely on mother s bed. The rising sun and war paint dyes us red. In broad daylight her gilded bedpost shine abandon almost Dionysian. And last the trees are green on Marlborough Street. Blossoms on our Magnolia ignite the morning with their murderous 5 days white all night and held your hand as if you had a 4th time faced the kingdom of the med its hackneyed speech its homeless sidle I and drag me home alive. On my petite clearest of all God s creatures still all air and nerve you are in your twenty s and I once hand on glass in heart and mouth I drank the rods in the heat of Greenwich Village feigning at your feet to boil and shy and poker face to make a pass well the shrill verb of your invective
I hope that I will see more of your someday Robert lol Dear Robert I ve never been able to catch that name they call you but Mr Lol doesn t sound right either I had meant to write you quite a while ago to answer the note you sent me in New York and I certainly meant to do it before your review of my book appeared it s too late now it s the 1st review I ve had that attempt to define any general drift or consistency in the individual poems and I was beginning to feel there probably wasn t any at all I suppose for pride sake I should take some sort of stand about the adverse criticisms but I agreed with some of them only too well you spoke out my worst fears as well as some of my ambitions. It s an hour later. I was called out to see a calf being born in the pasture beside the house in 5 minutes after several falls on its nose it was standing up shaking its head and trying to nurse they took it away from its mother almost immediately it seems that if they take the calf away immediately t
With it 7 o clock I m Jack Dowling people living in apartment blocks where there was a fatal fire in Stoke on Trent claim irresponsible parking could stop emergency vehicles getting to them in the future a mother and her 6 year old daughter died following the fire on Ringling close on October the 1st her baby daughter is still in a critical condition in hospital residents claim that contract is from kids who are working on the flats are blocking residents parking spaces and local access roads although here say it has a robust traffic management plan in place ensuring access for emergency vehicles after all times Alan guest lives in north of course you ve got emergency services and they call and get bounced the big trucks come down there was a scuffle in that little scuffle in the block that you can t get a car and you can t get a car out people 40 minutes to get a car out because they do they block in the road of stuff which are foreign Rescue Service says it had no problem accessing
To Barbara the writers Allman is next followed by the morning cup with me Alosi Good morning. And here is the writers for Monday it s the 20th of February 2016. 17 why did 2 on this day George Washington established the u.s. Post Office Department and bunch when Franklin became the 1st postmaster general 962 John Glenn became the 1st American to orbit the earth circled the earth 3 times in the course of about 5 hours in his space capsule Friendship 7 which landed safely in the Atlantic Ocean about 800 miles off the coast of. It was on the stay in 1915 Dylan Thomas the Welsh poet arrived in New York City for his 1st American reading tour born raised in Swans he wails Dylan Thomas already well known for his poems such as Do not go gentle into that good night and his poem and death show have no dominion his 1st stop was a reading at the Poetry Center in New York City read his own poems in somebody s aids and Hardy and theoretically about a 1000 people came to see him Robert Lowell was th