tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post2488974499704171079..comments2023-12-05T03:34:14.680-05:00Comments on <b>Issa's Untidy Hut</b>: Diane di Prima: CompassionIssa's Untidy Huthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-18261586382841721722012-04-28T08:25:45.642-04:002012-04-28T08:25:45.642-04:00Merrill:
Here's the link for donations - also...Merrill:<br /><br />Here's the link for donations - also in the post itself:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.giveforward.com/donationsfordianediprima" rel="nofollow"> Donations for Diane di Prima</a><br /><br />Thanks so much - yes, even the smallest amount is helpful.<br /><br />DonIssa's Untidy Huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-33930263680065099272012-04-28T08:24:16.793-04:002012-04-28T08:24:16.793-04:00Thanks for the poem, Kara.Thanks for the poem, Kara.Issa's Untidy Huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-6609286718771468342012-04-28T08:23:51.976-04:002012-04-28T08:23:51.976-04:00Thanks, Donna, for passing the word.
Really appre...Thanks, Donna, for passing the word. <br />Really appreciated.Issa's Untidy Huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-38508433776741312312012-04-27T21:10:05.307-04:002012-04-27T21:10:05.307-04:00Don, Is there a place set up to send donations to?...Don, Is there a place set up to send donations to? I'm sure, although we might not have much to share, if a lot of us shared that tiny bit it might just help a bit?snowbirdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15316143918251372333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-26470087856554190942012-04-26T17:40:47.989-04:002012-04-26T17:40:47.989-04:00OneStop
One stop at Mac’s Back’s book store
Lost ...OneStop<br /><br />One stop at Mac’s Back’s book store<br />Lost me $13.84 and there it was I gained Diane’s words<br />Between shocking purple printed design, it was<br />Singing to me for years and I finally caught on<br />And I was in luck, the book was signed on the front page,<br />I knew I had a treasure<br />This cool chic with her Buddhist alibi beats rantings on<br />And casually speaking of Ginsberg, Pound<br />I had to stop in the street and pull the baby’s carriage back<br />A bit and put the paperback in my pocket <br />Before we lost our lives.<br /><br />Yeah, that good.<br /><br /> Like this wheel goin’ round, the words opening that<br />Revolving door where the enlightened ones are sitting<br />Back there with mighty pen shields and great laughter<br />That ease the tears of poets-<br /><br />And we’re all cryin with our heads on someone’s <br />Plate dressed like a puppet <br />Our strings out of tune<br />Our strings badly bruised<br />Our strings made of telephone wires and t.v. cords and grape vine wraths and ignoramus antidotes and media frenzies and salon-styled politics and staturistic stimulus and economic blunders and cold, hard cash and forgotten souls dangling from gold plated rope-<br />With our necks stuck out on America’s doormats, waiting<br />For the Feds to bust in waiving rifles<br />At frail children like they did Elian, so we can burn tires in the street and scream “ AMERICA, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!”<br /><br />This book in my pocket vibrating like a bomb<br />Her words a wailing out all over the pages<br />I sit down on the concrete grass and turn out the goods of the poet,<br />Wondering, if we shall ever stop crying.<br /><br /><br />copywrite 1996 kara E GoergenAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-65351258973943806112012-04-26T17:13:11.332-04:002012-04-26T17:13:11.332-04:00Will share this along on Fb and at word pond. With...Will share this along on Fb and at word pond. With the help of the poets Bob Arnold, Ana Božičević, Amy King, Michael McClure and yourself, Diane di Prima's health is bound to be strengthened. Glad to hear her spirits remain vibratory. Thanks, Don. ~ DonnaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com