Robert Sward | Robert Sward
Feb.28.2013
photo by ©Robert Sward
Leonard Cohen: Various Positions
as interviewed by Robert Sward
This interview took place in Montreal, Quebec - 1984.
INT: Your latest album is called " Various Positions. " Why that title?
LC: When you're gathering songs together, the ones that you have and the...
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Feb.11.2013
SHELBY ON ‘THE PURPOSE OF DOGS’
The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind.
--Charles Darwin
Shelby the Dog:
Ninety percent of our genetic makeup is the same as yours....
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Feb.09.2013
IN A WORLD OF NO
…all that I cared for was the race of dogs,
that and nothing else… To whom but [dogs]
can one appeal in the wide and empty world?
–Franz Kafka
In a world of No,
dogs are a Yes.
Sixty-eight million dogs in America
and...
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Jan.23.2013
FOUR INCARNATIONS
1. Switchblade Poetry: Chicago Style
I began writing poetry in Chicago at age 15, when I
was named corresponding secretary for a gang of
young punks and hoodlums called the Semcoes. A
Social Athletic Club, we met at various locations
two Thursdays a month. My job...
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Jan.21.2013
NIGHTGOWN, WIFE’S GOWN
Where do people go when they go to sleep?
I envy them. I want to go there too.
I am outside of them, married to them.
Nightgown, wife’s gown, women that you look at,
beside them—I knock on their shoulder blades
ask to be let in. It is forbidden.
But you’...
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Jan.20.2013
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New & Selected Poems, Red Hen Press, Pasadena, CA, lists book for $24.95.
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Jan.19.2013
UNCLE DOG: THE POET AT 9
I did not want to be old Mr.
Garbage man, but uncle dog
who rode sitting beside him.
Uncle dog had always looked
to me to be truck-strong
wise-eyed, a cur-like Ford
Of a dog. I did not want
to be Mr. Garbage man because
all he had was cans to do.
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Jan.16.2013
ONE FOR THE ROAD
One for the road.
A little detached it was, but bouncy, flouncy, hoochie coochie,
woo wah woo, out there under the stars,
woo wah woo,
one for the road, one for the road it was,
and end of the show.
Stupid shit, how was I to know?
One for the road and end of the show?
So good-...
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Jan.15.2013
ODE TO TORPOR
Glory be to God for the tiresome and tedious,
Glory be to God for tedium,
for no news about anything,
for newspaper strikes and power outages,
lethargy and downtime.
Postpone and delay. And again,
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Jan.15.2013
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