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May 26, 2008

Samuel Johnson on Tea

Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence. ~Samuel Johnson

Tea at the Randolph Hotel

May 18, 2008

Amy Lowell Greets the Spring

Guarded within the old red wall's embrace,
Marshalled like soldiers in gay company,
The tulips stand arrayed. Here infantry
Wheels out into the sunlight.
- A Tulip Garden

IMG_1541 Urban Tulipscape, near Soho, May 2008

May 11, 2008

Duke Ellington's Advice to the Downtrodden

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

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April 30, 2008

Samuel Beckett: Advice to Creative Minds

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
--Worstward Ho

Samuel Beckett