Summertime, child, and livin’s easy...
The Gershwin Bros. (via Billie Holiday, Janis Joplin, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Herbie Hancock, Joni Mitchell, Miles Davis, Chet Baker, John Coltrane....)
...wracked with traffic tickets, impending dental bills,
internet problems...etc....etc....etc....escaping the coming heat wave, at
least, to walk on a beach at one a.m....early enough even on the summer solstice to be
suitably dark....some select stars shining through the eastern haze of
humidity...listening to Richard Thompson through ipod headphones....
...everything you do
leaves you empty inside,
time to ring some
changes......maybe not quite so bad as all that, but he’s got a point....even later, inside reading Duino Elegies, salvaged, earlier, from my dad’s bookshelves...(soon to be emptied by people who get paid to dispose of stuff other people can’t bear to get rid of, themselves).....thinking I gotta get up early to take screens in to be fixed before the renters come next week....then coffee, air-conditioned yoga, and waiting for the cable company...a beach house ill-kept of late...where, if nothing else, I’ve done an awful lot of writing...among other things...in the past....now with a For Sale sign out front....finally, a long walk down to the point as the sun sets on this longest day of the year, its heat diminished with the light...another cosmic cycle moving along on its way...
Denn Bleiben ist
nirgends.*
Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies
* For there is no
remaining,
no place to stay
(David Young, trans.).For staying is nowhere (J.B. Leishman and Stephen Spender, trans.).
