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Strafford Notes, 24 January 2013
Thursday, January 24, 2013 8:15:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

Cold??? Its so cold here I saw six cockroaches trying to jump sdtzrt a dead mouse....

Jan 24

Events:

Jan 24 Rye,NH Local Authors Night Join local authors K.D. Mason (Killer Run) and Kathleen Lockwood (Major League Bride) as they read from and discuss their latest works here at Rye Public Library.7-8 PM Click here

January 24th, Concord, 7 p.m , Gibson’s Books.Granite State Native and Maine Poet Laureate Click here publishes "superb memoir" about how he became a poet. The Words I Chose: A Memoir of Family and Poetry <Click here> Click here

, January 24, 2013, Manchester, 7 pm – Milly’s Tavern, Manchester – Slam Free or Die – Thuli Zuma Features and open mike (647-9991 or Click here )

Born:

0124

William Congreve (1670 – 01/19/1729) English writer –playwright/poetThe Old Bachelor (1693), The Double Dealer (1693), and his best known play, The Way of the World (1700),

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Edith Wharton Jones (1862 – 08/11/1937) US writer -novelist (Ethan Frome, Age of Innocence(1920—Pulitzer Prize), House of Mirth)

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Neil Diamond (01/24/1941 – ) US singer, songwriter

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Warren Zevon (1947 – 09/07/2003) US singer, songwriter had played piano with The Everly Brothers, and during his career recorded over 15 solo albums. Well known for his 1978 'Werewolves Of London' &Excitable Boy)

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Hasten Down the Wind

She tells him she thinks she wants to be free

He tells her he doesn't understand

She takes his hand

And tells him nothing's working out the way she planned

She's so many women

He can't find the one who was his friend

He's hanging on to half a heart

But he can't have the restless part

So he tells her to hasten down the wind

Now he agrees he thinks she ought to be free

Now she says she'd rather be with him

Oh it's just a whim

That she's designed to keep him out there on that limb

She's so many women

He can't find the one who was his friend

He hanging on to half a heart

But he can't have the restless part

So he tells her to hasten down the wind

He tells her to hasten down the wind

written by Warren Zevon

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John Belushi (1949 – 03/05/1982) US comic, actor (SNL) played Joliet 'Jake' Blues in The Blues Brothers 'Everybody Needs Somebody To Love'.

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Passed:

0124

Otto Harbach 18-Aug-1873-1963. , American lyricist He co-wrote, 'Smoke Gets In Your Eyes', US & UK No.1 for The Platters in 1958.

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

Baby,
They asked me how I knew
My true love was true
I of course replied
"Something here inside
Cannot be denied"

They said someday you'll find
All who love are blind
When your heart's on fire
You must realise
Smoke gets in your eyes

So I chaffed and I gaily laughed
To think they would doubt my love
Yet today, my love has flown away
I am without my love

Now laughing friends deride
Tears I cannot hide
So I smile and say
"When a lovely flame dies,
Smoke gets in your eyes."

Songwriters: KERN, JEROME / HARBACH, OTTO

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Ted Bundy (Nov 24,1946-1989 ) serial killer of up to 100 women,

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Sites:

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History:

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1848, gold was discovered along the American River in northern California by carpenter James Marshall, who was helping build a sawmill for Click here. The two men tried keeping their find a secret, but word soon got out, and the gold rush of 1849 was underway. The influx of desperate gold speculators, far from making Sutter rich, served only to overrun his holdings with squatters. They stole his goods and livestock, and within 3 years he was bankrupt.

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1935, beer was first marketed in cans, rather than bottles. It was prepared by the Krueger Brewing Company of Newark, New Jersey.

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Bonus Poem:

Click hereIn the 70’s, I Confused Macramй and Macabre

I.
I wanted the macabre plant holder
hanging in Janet and Chrissy’s apartment.
My friend said her cousin tried to kill himself
by putting his head through the patterns
of in his mother’s spiderplant hanger, but
the hook broke from the ceiling and he fell
knocking over their lava lamp, their 8-track player.
His brother almost died a week later when
he became tangled in the milfoil at Echo Lake.
I said it could have been a very
macramй summer for that family.

II.
When I looked outside for sticks to make a God’s Eye
to hang my bedroom wall, I found a mouse
flattened, its white spine stretching past its tail.
And a few feet away from that,
a dead bird with an open chest.
Its veins wrapped tightly together.
This neighborhood with its macramй details
crushed into the street. I wanted
my mother to console me, remind me
that sometimes we escape.
But when I returned to my house
it was empty, except for the macabre owl
my mother had almost finished, its body left
on the kitchen table, while she ran out to buy more beads.

by Kelli Russell Agodon

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Editorial:

My recuperation proceeds down it’s bumpy road; Doctors visit Jan 23,I got a date I didn’t like- March 4 …Dr will evaluate my restrictions. Physical Therapy (to strengthen legs and back) proceeds for a few weeks .I foresee a late spring for Skipper.

Arrow- anode

(to my walker)

I’m here to tell you about my new friend

I like to call him Arrow

He isn’t much to look at

But he keeps me on the straight and narrow.

He‘s painted grey and has grips on top

To keep me tall and true

“Cause crawling the floor with a bloody forehead

Is a stupid thing to do.

Before I could leave the room I was stuck in’

They made me promise on my soul,

That Arrow would lead me to and fro

If I felt the need to stroll.

So now I’ve brought the bastard home

To meet the wife and kids

They understand the little jerk

Will keep me off the skids.

We take the stairs, ungainly

But at least he gets me to the car,

And I know that on all fours

I t would take all day to get that far

They say if I keep up my PT

Someday I’ll put the fool away,

But I’ve felt the strength that’s in my back

And I don’t believe I’ll see the day.

So I’ll get a plastic Jesus,

And stick on some black tinged flame,

And wherever we go everyone knows

That‘s Arrow and what’s his name.

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