tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6380232356803921253.post1018872832685230585..comments2024-01-28T02:24:23.386-05:00Comments on Dan Leo: “Railroad Train to Heaven”, Part 221: meet meDan Leohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01603402268945559679noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6380232356803921253.post-2292761579523617302011-02-27T17:22:35.049-05:002011-02-27T17:22:35.049-05:00Nice poem anyway, Jonny-boy!Nice poem anyway, Jonny-boy!Dan Leohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01603402268945559679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6380232356803921253.post-87209162054838175542011-02-27T14:32:31.100-05:002011-02-27T14:32:31.100-05:00That Edwards, he wrote this in 1730:
For the firs...That Edwards, he wrote this in 1730:<br /><br />For the first twenty years since yesterday<br />I scarce believed thou couldst be gone away;<br />For forty more I fed on favors past,<br />And forty on hopes that thou wouldst they might last.<br />Tears drowned one hundred, and sighs blew out two,<br />A thousand, I did neither think nor do,<br />Or not divide, all being one thought of you,<br />Or in a thousand more forgot that too.<br />Yet call not this long life, but think that I<br />Am, by being dead, immortal. Can ghosts die?<br /><br />And it turns out he just went through old Johnny Donnes poem and swapped out a few things, like Theodor zu Googleberg!Davey Crockettnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6380232356803921253.post-51650982410425243272010-10-23T00:12:41.176-04:002010-10-23T00:12:41.176-04:00Di -- that's right, and no matter what dimensi...Di -- that's right, and no matter what dimension Arnie happens to be in!Dan Leohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01603402268945559679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6380232356803921253.post-45061407522734920442010-10-22T20:47:21.462-04:002010-10-22T20:47:21.462-04:00Arnie + Electra 4 eva!!!!!Arnie + Electra 4 eva!!!!!Dinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6380232356803921253.post-21488546214461798822010-10-19T09:05:33.954-04:002010-10-19T09:05:33.954-04:00ddAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6380232356803921253.post-27146635076646552822010-10-17T04:12:33.488-04:002010-10-17T04:12:33.488-04:00The night's still young, Manny, especially on ...The night's still young, Manny, especially on Greenwich Village time...Dan Leohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01603402268945559679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6380232356803921253.post-80068262502771999662010-10-16T23:50:45.640-04:002010-10-16T23:50:45.640-04:00Oh my...I expected old Ben to be sneaking through ...Oh my...I expected old Ben to be sneaking through the alley with Emily.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16378662301271706094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6380232356803921253.post-1692323055274548122010-10-16T06:40:55.142-04:002010-10-16T06:40:55.142-04:00I and I thank you, Kathleen! (Arnold does too.)I and I thank you, Kathleen! (Arnold does too.)Dan Leohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01603402268945559679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6380232356803921253.post-70026366983223346382010-10-16T02:23:12.521-04:002010-10-16T02:23:12.521-04:00Loving this more all the time: Emily and Arnold mi...Loving this more all the time: Emily and Arnold might be just what the other needed. Both repressed and inexperienced (at least by current mores)--together they might attain, if not enlightenment, profound joy. Imagine the poetry they'd write then.<br />All the characters are loosening up: the standards to belong are more inclusive...<br />An bamba bay I-an-I gaan a bed fi Alton Ellis.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12306491903311869968noreply@blogger.com