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The day after
On a sharply disappointing day, when some bitterly familiar bad things happened – yet again – and I left early, missing the department Christmas celebration – while at home, avoiding everything – the television has a rerun of a favorite musical/dramatic passage: the final episode of Sex and the City. There are three exceptional passages…
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Exercises
The Newcastle writers' group meets every other week or so; we try, during lunch time between teaching, meetings, and various demands, to just write for an hour, share it, and recover a little bit of ourselves. *** October 5, 2006 – write a poem. Postcard from Newcastle The blackened rusted red of these buildings, dark…
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ego
My birthday: the twenty-fourth time I've been twenty-nine. … yes, well, okay… I'm fifty two. Saturday's World AIDS Day speech went well. Many compliments, many eyes on me. Tonight's Kagel concert – well, we'll see, but – the rehearsal went well; and Agustín is asking for even more attitude, more theatrics, more… me. Of course…
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Heroes
[Speech for World AIDS Day March and Celebration, Newcastle. It was held on December 6, not December 1, this year.] Welcome to our second March and Celebration, and thank you for coming to the Sage Gateshead for World AIDS Day. I’d like to thank our local percussion groups for accompanying us through town and across…
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W.A.D.
Today is World AIDS Day, 2008. Our local march and event, at the grand local concert hall, the Sage Gateshead, won't however be until Saturday, December 6th. Therefore, even though I'm emcee again, I haven't written a speech yet… I looked at my last four years of speeches, though (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007) and thought:…
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Far away and horrible
My colleague and friend David flew yesterday to India on a three-week trip which includes an extensive stay in Mumbai – fortunate that he'll stop in Delhi on his way, before he goes near the chaos, the shooting, the bombs. I assume he will change his plans – or perhaps have them changed for him…
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