Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Almanac. I asked Mac Tag if I could take one more day at the rein’s of TLC. He graciously agreed. You can follow us on twitter @cowboycoleridge. Does someone watch over you? Do you watch over someone? Rhett
The Lovers’ Almanac
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walkin’ past the palazzo,
an old woman watchin’
from her window
made herself
the sign of the cross
and moved her lips
……
kept the past locked up
had every intention
of throwin’ away the key
till you came along
……
i remember everything
from that evenin’
mostly, the words
you repeated
over and over
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somewhere i go often
one of my favorite places,
that ol’ dance hall
waltzed & two-stepped
myself into a sweat
and drank a lot
of Shiner Bock
fell in love there,
or as near
as i ever came
i remember
everything
about our first night there
the way you looked,
the way it felt
to waltz across
the floor with you,
the words you whispered
in my ear
then later…
the way you moved your hips
your pale lips, quiverin’
half-open,
aspirin’ to somethin’
neither of us
had ever known
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I asked Mac Tag if I could have another turn at TLA to address a note that Zazie left here. The note says that men are dogs. Well, we certainly can be and sadly, we can be much worse. But consider this. A man wrote today’s Lyrics of the Day, his brother wrote the music and a man sang the song and a man is sendin’ this edition of TLC out especially for you Zazie. So maybe we are not all bad. The Lyrics of the Day by George Gershwin:
Someone To Watch Over Me
Still we’re often told, seek and ye shall find
So I’m going to seek a certain girl I’ve had in mind
Looking everywhere, haven’t found her yet
Only one I ever think of with regret
I’d like to add her initial to my monogram
Tell me, where is the shepherd for this lost lamb?
I hope that she turns out to be
Someone who’ll watch over me
I’m a little lamb who’s lost in the wood
I know I could always be good
Someone who’ll watch over me
Guys think of as pretty
To my heart she carries the key
Won’t you tell her please to put on some speed
Follow my lead, oh, how I need
Someone to watch over me
The Song of the Day is Willie Nelson‘s version of “Someone to Watch over Me” by George and Ira Gershwin.
| Grazia Deledda | |
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Today is the birthday of Grazia Maria Cosima Damiana Deledda (Nuoro; 28 September 1871 – 15 August 1936 Rome); writer who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926 “for her idealistically inspired writings which with plastic clarity picture the life on her native island [i.e. Sardinia] and with depth and sympathy deal with human problems in general”. She was the first Italian woman to receive this honor.
L’ospite
Suonò l’Ave.
Margherita si fece rapidamente il segno della croce e mosse le labbra.
– Angelus… Angelus…
Non ricordava altro quella sera, perché ella ripeté la dolce parola almeno dieci volte. Poi le sue labbra pallide si fermarono del tutto, semiaperte, quasi ad aspirare il vento che recava, vibrando, i rintocchi dell’Ave.
Today is the birthday of Marcella “Marcey” Jacobson (September 27, 1911 – July 26, 2009); photographer who moved to Chiapas, Mexico in the 1950s, and was best known for her photographs of the indigenous peoples of Southern Mexico.
She died of heart failure at age 97 on July 26, 2009, in San Cristóbal in Chiapas, Mexico. She left no immediate survivors. Janet Marren, her partner, had died in 1998.
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