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by Diane Lefer
Wednesday, May 09, 2012
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The air is soft
in Phoenix (PHX)
at 4:00 PM
and I remember
disembarking
years ago, (SFO),
into the same soft air
when trips did not
mean business class.
I thought it was the
San Francisco magic
"Flowers in your hair"
not just the moment:
afternoon, spring.
Memories and plans
can fix as one.
What I expected,
what we intended
unless the intention,
the plan--was all,
always, only mine.
The adrenaline
doesn't change at
takeoff or landing,
now at McCarran
(LAS) where at first
the Strip is distant
and fools the eye:
casinos built to
human scale but
taxi closer and
Mandalay Bay looms
a triumph of the
human will, higher
than the mountains.
Spinoza wrote this:
if you don't care for
others, in time you'll
hurt yourself. But
I gave up philosophy
after college, like
binge drinking -- or
was it art left behind?
The cultivation of
taste infringes on
someone's freedom
and at these heights,
a voice tells me to
secure mine first
before assisting
those in need.
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| Reviewed by Ronald Hull |
5/10/2012 |
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Reminders of Panhandle Park and flights into San Francisco and Phoenix with hot and cold air conditioning. I read Spinoza in college, too. But I have forgotten everything he may have taught me in the course of time. Interesting poem that I haven't a clue as to its point except maybe the title. But I can't see how going to lost wages equates with maturity.'
Ron |
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| Reviewed by Paul Judges |
5/10/2012 |
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| Good work, Diane - well conveyed. |
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