Benign

"When our better selves we have too long
Been parted by the hurrying world, and droop,
Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired,
How gracious, how benign, is Solitude."
(excerpt from The Prelude. Wordsworth.)

Listen

" Listen. The minstrels sing
In the departed villages. The nightingale,
Dust in the buried wood, flies on the grains of her wings
And spells on the winds of the dead his winter's tale.
The voice of the dust of water from the withered spring

Is telling."
(excerpt from A Winter's Tale. Dylan Thomas)

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Everything You Did

"Where did the bastard run,
Is he still around?
Now you gotta tell me ev'rything
You did baby.
I'm gonna get my gun,
Shoot the lover down.
Are you gonna tell me ev'rything
You did baby.
I never knew you,
You were a roller skater.
You gonna show me later.
Turn up the Eagles the neighbours are
List'ning.
Traces are everywhere in our
Happy home.
..... (et al.)"
Walter Becker and Donald Fagen

Its A Low Down Dirty Deal

It's great to be rich and a doggone shame to be poor
It's great to be rich and a doggone shame to be poor
It's a lowdown dirty deal when your woman don't want you no more
I tried to please her but it only made her mad
I tried to please her but it only made her mad
She done strip me and took everything I had
Now what you gonna do with a woman like that?
Now what you gonna do with a woman like that?
Who takes all your money yes and leaves you flat?
Yes it's great to be rich and a doggone shame to be poorI
t's a lowdown dirty deal when your woman don't want you no more
Now it was money in the morning, and money every night
If I didn't have no money, she was ready to fight
It's great to be rich and a doggone shame to be poor
It's a lowdown dirty deal when your woman don't want you no more
T. Bone Walker

Dirty Old Town

DIRTY OLD TOWN

I found my love, by the gasworks cry,
Dreamed a dream, by the old canal,
Kissed my girl, by the fact’ry wall
Dirty old town, dirty old town.

I heard a siren from the dock,
Saw a train set the night on fire,
Smelled the spring in the smoky wind,
Dirty old town, dirty old town.

Clouds are drifting across the moon,
Cats are prowling on their beat,
Spring’s a girl in the street at night,
Dirty old town, dirty old town.

I’m going to make a good sharp axe,
Shining steel, tempered in the fire,
We’ll chop you down like an old dead tree,
Dirty old town, dirty old town.
(Ewan McColl)

Witness

"The existence of mutuality between G-d and man cannot be proved, just as G-d's existence cannot be proved. Yet he who dares to speak of it, bears witness, and calls to witness him to whom he speaks - whether that witness is now or in the future."
Martin Buber

Sauna

" First he heated up the sauna
And the stones to make the vapor,
burning only clean-washed firewood,
Driftwood gathered on the seashore.
He brough slappers in his shadow,
Water hidden by his coat;
Steeped the slappers in hot water
Till their hundred twigs were tender.
Then he tossed a scoop of water
On the hot stones till they crackled,
Throwing up a cloud of vapor,
And the vapor was like honey
Rising from the heated stones
As old Väinämöinen chanted:
'Be thou present in this vapor,
Father of the sky, be present
In the vapor with thy healing-'"
(Kalevala. Runo 45)