Jim Carroll (gone @ 60)
Poet & diarist Jim Carroll died past Friday of a heart attack. An obit in the New York Times gives the details of the life, & a lovely piece by Tom Clark on his website, here, cites Carroll on writing. Though I enjoyed the two volumes of “diaries,” I prefer the poems in Living at the Movies, & here’s one of them to counteract the sadness of one more calling it splitsville:
JET FIZZLE
It was summer then
and the forests were legal
the farmers there
use marble eggs as decoys
when those Hawks dive
they reach speeds of up to 200 m.p.h.
disappointed
at egg
a switchman
a red lantern
in Grand central Station
a jar of honey
in a plain brown bag
I thought
that it was pretty
Weird
when he poured it in
God the fathers beard
Thanks Pierre. Yes, I’m sure Jim would wish us to counteract the sadness. But ooh, that photo. (Made me remember why I avoid mirrors.)
Be well, let’s hang this side of the river yet awhile…