SEA, POISON ~

 

R E A D   M E

New Directions, 2025

JUDEE SILL TONIGHT ~

 

DYLAN'S MEMORY PALACE ~

R E A D / L I S T E N 

    Liveright 2026

IRA SADOFF~

 

Nazis

Thank God they're all gone

except for one or two in Clinton Maine

who come home from work

at Scott Paper or Diamond Match

to make a few crank calls

to the only Jew in New England

they can find

These make-shift students of history

whose catalogue of facts include

every Jew who gave a dollar

to elect the current governor

every Jew who'd sell this country out

to the insatiable Israeli state

I know exactly how they feel

when they say they want to smash my face

Someone's cheated them

they want to know who it is

they want to know who makes them beg

It's true Let's Be Fair

it's tough for almost everyone

I exaggerate the facts

to make a point

Just when I thought I could walk to the market

just when Jean the check-out girl

asks me how many cords of wood I chopped

and wishes me a Happy Easter

as if I've lived here all my life

Just when I can walk into the bank

and nod at the tellers who know my name

where I work who lived in my house in 1832

who know to the penny the amount

of my tiny Jewish bank account

Just when I'm sure we can all live together

and I can dine in their saltbox dining rooms

with the melancholy painting of Christ

on the wall their only consolation

just when I can borrow my neighbor's ladder

to repair one of the holes in my roof

I see the town now from the right perspective

the gunner in the glass bubble

of his fighter plane shadowing the tiny man

with the shopping bag and pointy nose

his overcoat two sizes too large for him

skulking from one doorway to the next

trying to make his own way home

I can see he's not one of us

___________________________________

Emotional Traffic

David R. Godine, 1989

ALICE COLTRANE THE CARNEGIE HALL CONCERT ALL DAY~

 

Bass – Cecil McBee, Jimmy Garrison Drums – Clifford Jarvis, Ed Blackwell Piano, Harp, Percussion – Alice Coltrane Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Flute, Fife, Percussion – Pharoah Sanders Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Percussion – Archie Shepp Harmonium – Kumar Kramer Tambura [Tamboura] – Tulsi Recorded at Carnegie Hall, New York, NY, February 21, 1971

ANDY GILL TRACKS BOB DYLAN 1962-1969 ~

 

R E A D   M E

     of all the Dylan books and years

     1962-1969 ~

     this is the one you want

BUKKA WHITE TONIGHT ~

 

1973

JAMES LOOP ~

 

The End

remember me reader

age thirty four and naked

in a small kitchen

straining spaghetti

while reading the aeneid

to what perilous absurdities

of love and nutriment

would I not stoop

out of the hope of you

Motto

    what binds

what breaks

                    the river

        makes

                    the river

                    the river

The Alphabet

lucky us as

in its alien shrine

no one, none

boils alone

Universal Ad

sometimes it's just time

for a little something

______________________

James Loop

Metronome

Winter Editions 2026

SHOOTER JENNINGS TONIGHT ~

 

ITHELL COLQUHOUN ~

           Ithell Colquhoun demonstrating automatic painting on BBC TV's 'The Eye of the Artist' in 1948. Photo: Getty 

R E A D   M E