The Speaking Earth

[Artguy]

Picked up a book today ....a collection of Canadian Poetry called The Speaking Earth...filled with such luminaries as Leonard Cohen, Al Purdy, Dorothy Livesay, Margaret Atwood, Milton Acorn...and others....think I'll get drunk and bury my face in it for a couple of days...

[stilltrucking]

I heard a Leonard Cohen album a few times a long time ago. Stayed with me for over thirty years, "no arrows of direction to guide our feet"

Canadian poetry sounds good. why can't we be more like they are .
I am looking around me at books everywhere. I been picking up books and puting them down for months, I must have picked up twenty bucks laying oven face down or with bookmarks,
I been thinking about Don Quixote, maybe,

I been thinking about a bloody mary too, or maybe just a half pint of jim beam.
no maybe tequila and lime or lemmon,

but most of all I think about cigarettes

[Artguy]

Poor Sancho and his dignified dun...following ol Don down the road of hopeless glory...in search of the unsearchable...and finding the unfindable....

[stilltrucking]

Yes indeed my life story, finding the unfindable,

dreaming the impossible dream
the ellusive butterfly of love
dream baby dreaming my life away
just one kiss


"There's still one or two of us walking the street,
no arrows of direction painted under our feet,
no angels to warn us away from the heat,
and no honey to keep us where it is sweet."


I must be three times as old as you with my morbid thoughts, don't pity, it is a good death, you are just too young to see it.

[stilltrucking]

christ that may be the stupidest thing I have wrote all week. At some point I will descend from this smokey haze and reread all these rants o f mine, but I am sure the one above this was the dumbest,

Man of La Mancha, i always liked that musical.

[mousey1]

Leonard Cohen is the best. I have many of his CD's.

The Speaking Earth. Is it hot off the presses? Sounds very good. I'll have to check this out.

Get drunk!!!! How can you properly digest what you're reading? Get sober!!!! Eh, what do I know.

Does LC still live in Montreal?

Ever seen him in person? Ever hear him read his poetry in person? Christ that would be cool!!!!!!