Comments on: Railraod Train to Heaven – Part XIX

By: Dan Leo

Dan Leo — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:05:31 +0000

Aw, thanks, Kathleen!

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:53:22 +0000

It’s almost not fair putting the poet’s art in a comment box. This is a perfect companion to his sonnet in the confessional.

By: Dan Leo

Dan Leo — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:23:48 +0000

By the way, here’s a poem Arnold wrote inspired by today’s installment of the days of his lives:

“Escaping the Heat”

It’s too hot to think, to write or to create,
And so to escape the oppressive heat
I go to see some friends who operate
An air-conditioned shop on Jackson Street.
My friends make trinkets from pebbles they go get
Off the beach, and from shells and other stuff on it,
From nothing much at all, just as a certain poet
Of my acquaintance will jury-rig a sonnet
From the flotsam and the jetsam of a life
He’s somehow always forgotten or declined to live.
My friends seem happy nonetheless to see me,
And we go back to the workroom (the air rife
With solder) where they’re so very good as to give
Me a smoke, as we sit and talk of the Bodhi Tree.

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:25:20 +0000

Everyone’s a mystery to me and yet I strongly suspect that “honesty,” no matter how strict or honorable, falls among those abstract qualities whose means toward the goal count significantly in a woman’s mind.
Then, too, in any comparison like this men are a terrible disadvantage: all that power throughout most known cultures throughout all history allowed them license to lie without let-up.
Not Arnold, of course; he’s so blatantly and consistently truthful, you’ve got to laugh and sometimes cry.

By: Dan Leo

Dan Leo — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:30:23 +0000

I suspect Elektra was just trying to be honest, and then was honestly surprised at the nakedness of Arnold’s honesty. But then women are a mystery to me…

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:19:49 +0000

Is Elektra using Gypsy Dave’s sales technique on Arnold? Wise of him not to mention Jesus yet: Such revelations must be reserved for the person who is indisputably half of a couple in which you’re the other half. Sometimes clergymen think they’re entitled, but overall it’s best to leave them out.
Another funny, elegant episode. (Last week I felt naked.)