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Dream? strive to do, and agonize to do,
And fail in doing

― henry house, Saturday, 24 July 2004 23:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I do what many dream of, all their lives,
--Dream? strive to do, and agonize to do,
And fail in doing, I could count twenty such
On twice your fingers, and not leave this town

-Robert Browning, Andrea del Sarto, 1855

― Fred (Fred), Sunday, 25 July 2004 10:23 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

Revive. No cheating.

Ballerina, black-masked
near a parapet of alabaster.
“Can one -- somebody asked --
rhyme ‘star’ and ‘disaster’?”

Can one picture a blackbird
as the negative of a small firebird?
Can a record, run backward,
turn ‘repaid’ into ‘diaper’?

― roxymuzak, Monday, 2 February 2009 03:46 (sixteen years ago)

I'm not playing, but as per your request:

Music Like Dirt
for Desmond Dekker

by Frank Bidart

I will not I will not I said but as my body turned in the solitary
bed it said But he loves me which broke my will.

music like dirt

That you did but willed and continued to will refusal you
confirmed seventeen years later saying I was not wrong.

music like dirt

When you said I was not wrong with gravity and weird
sweetness I felt not anger not woe but weird calm sweetness.

music like dirt

I like sentences like He especially dug doing it in
houses being built or at the steering wheel.

music like dirt

I will not I will not I said but as my body turned in the solitary
bed it said But he loves me which broke my will.

― bamcquern, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 20:19 (sixteen years ago)

Roxy's is by Nabokov, but I can't recall the title.

― Ye Mad Puffin, Thursday, 5 February 2009 20:02 (sixteen years ago)

Thanks, bam!

You're right, Puffin, it's "Ode to a Model."

― roxymuzak, Friday, 6 February 2009 21:57 (sixteen years ago)

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