Ode To Rod & Kahlil

You two brought the joy:
A prophet and chansonnier
traveling along our
*Stanyan Street with books of
love in my hands.

Delightfully moving me
to write, and so I thank you.
Thank you for Sloopy and Apartment 4-E,
and Eating and Giving and Marriage
and Children and Pain.

Oh, thank you for the Pain.

May I always
*"Listen to the Warm" with
*"A Tear and A Smile".


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*Rod McKuen's  - "Stanyan Street & Other Sorrows"  (1954)
                                     and "Listen To The Warm"  (1967)
*Kahlil Gibran's  - "The Prophet"  (1923)  and "A Tear & A Smile" (1950)
Copyright © | Year Posted 2007

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