Category Archives: Activities

Les Bains Douches – Paris August 17, 1994 – Journal

August 13, 2024 – 3:53 pm

Les Bains Douches Paris August The clock Over the stairs always three to midnight The music in the entrance Summertime – Miles Davis trumpet ballad___ Upstairs in the dining room St. Tropez blondes huddle at a table Blonde bronzed seeking a rich man___ I not one I sit at the bar An old junkie friend […]

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A Bacchanalian Mirage

July 30, 2024 – 10:52 am

Associated Press – Paris Olympics organizers apologized to anyone who was offended by a tableau that evoked Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘The Last Supper’ during the glamorous opening ceremony, but defended the concept behind it Sunday. Da Vinci’s painting depicts the moment when Jesus Christ declared that an apostle would betray him. The scene during Friday’s […]

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Pawh Den Always

July 24, 2024 – 8:55 am

Monsoons late. Months after Songkran. Buffalo wander the rice paddies. Looking for their old friend. Den Khongbua Grandfather gone. Kwai remember him. Den the only one Who knew their names. Den Gone But not from memory Kwai. Not gone forever. Not from our memories too. I see you soon, grandfather Den But not today.

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LAST CALL IN BUTTE, MONTANA

July 17, 2024 – 12:45 pm

Tonight I rolled into Butte, Montana. Beating the M&M Bar’s last call. Gram Parsons on the jukebox. “Streets of Baltimore.” Mona loved that song And I never done her wrong___ Last week in Bozeman, Montana I woke to an empty bed No sign of Mona. Only a burning egg And a note saying Don’t follow […]

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January 15 1987 – Journal

July 15, 2024 – 1:05 pm

PLATOON has been a bigger hit than Willem Dafoe thought its completion and the film has garnered nominations for Director Oliver Stone and Willem as best supporting actor for his portrayal as the saintly Sergeant Elias. I’ve never been to war. I’ve fought on the streets many times. A man once shot at me in […]

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