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The Patient Ox (aka Hénock Gugsa)

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A personal blog with diverse topicality and multiple interests!


On the menu ... politics, music, poetry, and other good stuff.
There is humor, but there is blunt seriousness here as well!


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Friday, December 27, 2019

The Afterlife - by Louis Jenkins


Louis Jenkins

The Afterlife
by Louis Jenkins
(a Minnesotan poet born in Enid, OK , October 28, 1942)
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Older people are exiting this life as if it were a movie… "I didn’t get it," they are saying.
He says, "It didn’t seem to have any plot."
"No." she says, "it seemed like things just kept coming at me. Most of the time I was confused… and there was way too much sex and violence."
"Violence anyway," he says.
"It was not much for character development either; most of the time people were either shouting or mumbling. Then just when someone started to make sense and I got interested, they died. Then a whole lot of new characters came along and I couldn’t tell who was who."
"The whole thing lacked subtlety."
"Some of the scenery was nice."
"Yes."
They walk on in silence for a while. It is a summer night and they walk slowly, stopping now and then, as if they had no particular place to go.
They walk past a streetlamp where some insects are hurling themselves at the light, and then on down the block, fading into the darkness.
She says, "I was never happy with the way I looked."
"The lighting was bad and I was no good at dialogue," he says.
"I would have liked to have been a little taller," she says.
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source: www.yourdailypoem.com
From North of the Cities (Will o’ the Wisp Books, 2007) © Louis Jenkins.
~ used with the author’s permission ~

Tuesday, December 24, 2019

"Hallelujah" ~ sung by PS22 (New York City, 2015)



PS22 's 4th-Grader, Elisha  in 2015

"Hallelujah" 
~ sung by PS22 (New York City, 2015)~
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PS22's wonderful rendition of Leonard Cohen;s "Hallelujah" is headed by 4th -grader Elisha ....

 PS22 is an elementary public school in Graniteville, Staten Island, New York City.