Sestina - She walked in from the cold her name was Ann

Sestina
She walked in from the cold her name was Ann I was a willing fish she was the bait In her left hand she held a colander I stared at it I must have seemed quite daft I've never been a fan of entropy My heart was bruised a middle-aged failure
Ann's search for work had also met failure I had a job to offer I told Ann Nothing like work to zap our entropy And douse all thought of ending up as bait My mind was lucid peaceful hardly daft I asked her why she had that colander
She smiled and handed me the colander She said it was to save us from failure I was amused I said Ann that's quite daft But her look seemed to say I'll be your Ann And in an instant I swallowed the bait And lunged for love to beat back entropy
Who would not wish to conquer entropy I looked at Ann I took her colander Suppressing any thought of being bait Or of repeating any past failure I gladly gave what love I had to Ann No one around me thought me dumb or daft
But now I see that I was well past daft And halfway through the gate of entropy I lost my last vestige of pride to Ann I even came to own a colander And when I later wrote of my failure I told the world that I was willing bait
And now it seems we all have become bait And no one has a problem being daft There's solace everywhere to trump failure And hardly any thought of entropy And when I cook I use my colander And hardly ever give a thought to Ann
No longer bait nor prey to entropy Nor seeking symbols in a colander Failure is next of kin to entropy
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"Sto Perigiali" One of the Surpassingly Best Tunes Theodorakis Has Written

A Setting for a Poem "Denial" Beloved by the Greek People by the Nobel Prize Winning Poet Giorgos Seferis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhk0ckaCxDI
The remarkable video at the link above is of a performance of "Sto perigiali" Mario Frangoulis and Mikis Theodorakis in 2001.

Frangoulis and Theodorakis are joined by musicians, including two bouzouki players, and a very large audience that is completely familiar with the words. The audience joins in at Frangoulis' prompt.

This is my very favorite Theodorakis melody. Those who know Theodorakis only for his "Zorba" music are in for a treat. When I was in Athens in 1966, for a short period of study with Constantinos Doxiadis, I knew nothing of Theodorakis. But about five years later, my friend Irene Vassos sang "Sto perigiali" to us. I have never gotten the tune out of my mind.

Later, when Irene joined our group to form a travelling company performing "New Rain", I learned to pick out a …

Obama Ads Should Be Grass Roots Cinema Verite

ShortFormContent at Blogger: How President Obama Can Win Christian Conservatives:

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To counter the invidious efforts of Karl Rove and the Brothers Koch, simple videos of everyday people expressing gratitude for specific results from specific things that the President has achieved will create a signature response that will turn the tables on the Super PACs.

There could be an intro that flags lies distortions and anonymous attacks as unreal and even criminal and a cut to what is real, recognizable and not anonymous I am (name). I have lived here in (name) for (time). Thanks to (President Obama's (name) Act ... and so forth for ten seconds. Close with a continuation of the story narrated over evocative images and simple acoustic music.

This would be a fantastic way to counter the attacks on the President. For every specific attack, a video that shows the truth. And grass roots people who intend to vote for the President.

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