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A New Geography of Time - Robert Viscusi
ROBERT VISCUSI
A NEW GEOGRAPHY OF TIME
Essential Poet Series 124
Guernica
Toronto – Buffalo – Lancaster (U.K.) 2004
Contents
It’s Always the Day After Your Birthday
The Place You Left Your Violin
The Pedagogy of Henna
Web Site
All Presidential Primaries
The Famous Overtures, I
Feeling Sorry for Myself
After You
Today Is the First Day of Spring
The Shadow of Another Place
Lent
Where Are the Snows of Tomorrow?
Picture of a Man with a Broken Heart
Prizes Are Given on Tuesdays
Six Windows
Chances Are
Stories from the Moon
The Pressures of Pleasure
Silence Is Maximum
The Flower in the Window
Siddhartha
The Clarity of Typing
Glorious Morning
Sorrow as a Theory
Joy as a Theory
Old Ideas Are the Best Ideas
Enthusiasm and the Lack
The Boat for Childhood
Far Rockaway
Prom Night on the West Side Highway
Pilgrim Potato Soup
The Half of It
The Price of Being Crazy
The Minister of Craziness
There Once Was a Queen with a Licorice Lip
The Need to Be New
However You Do It Is All Right
A Trip to Italy
The Pattern of Your Walk
The Ninth Symphony
Goon and Lagoons
The Black Windowshade of Expressionist Painting
Broken Pianos
A New Geography of Time
It’s Always the Day After Your Birthday
Even on your birthday.
What are you commemorating exactly?
You are marking your place in the general rush of things.
Fighting with the calendar is dangerous and expensive.
Some people find it thrilling to have plastic surgery.
They celebrate their sixtieth birthdays as if they had decided to be thirty-five again.
All things are possible but come with constraints of price and time.
Attaching something you aren’t can make you brittle, especially if you wear it all day.
Money and time you spend changing your place can cost more than you think.
Whatever you do means you are not doing something else.
Even a rainy day has its virtues you do well not to overlook.
Rainy days are good for visiting a cherry tree.
The blossoms are there only a few days.
All year you remember them.
The bare tree is the place where blossoms were and will be.
We use these blossoms to organize today and tomorrow in our minds.
The tree is racing through the spirals of elapsed sunlight.
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