Erie's Public radio station WQLN 91.3 FM celebrates 35 years of broadcasting tomorrow.
Painter Mike Goldberg has died
"WHY I AM NOT A PAINTER"
Frank O'Hara
I am not a painter, I am a poet.
Why? I think I would rather be
a painter, but I am not. Well,
For instance, Mike Goldberg
is starting a painting. I drop in
"Sit down and have a drink" he
says. I drink; we drink. I look
up. "You have SARDINES in it."
"Yes, it needed something there."
"Oh." I go and the days go by
and I drop in again. The painting
is going on, and I go, and the days
go by. I drop in. The painting is
finished. "Where's SARDINES?"
All that's left is just
letters, "It was too much," Mike says.
But me? One day I am thinking of
a color; orange. I write a line
about orange. Pretty soon it is a
whole page of words, not lines.
Then another page. There should be
so much more, not of orange, of
words, of how terrible orange is
and life. Days go by. It is even in
prose, I am a real poet. My poem
is finished and I haven't mentioned
orange yet. It's twelve poems, I call
it ORANGES. And one day in a gallery
I see Mike's painting, called SARDINES.
Free and Legal Downloads
M. Ward: "Let's Dance (David Bowie cover, live at KVRX)"
One of my favorite blogs, Lullabyes, is sharing mp3s of a live St. Vincent performance
Ford is offering free and legal downloads of the Flaming Lips, Band of Horses, and The Strokes.
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment