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Behind Closed Doors
Sweet Smell of Success
By: - Jan 05th, 2015In the business district workers, traders and bankers share the confines of elevators in tall office buildings. For some this is a metaphor for the unchecked greed of capitalism. The merry prankster pursues a simple but effective form of organic urban guerrilla warfare. The trick is escaping the blast in the nick of time.
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Elevators in The Key of E
Elevates and Elates
By: - Jan 05th, 2015The long time publisher of Provincetown Arts Magazine chimes in on our Elevator Poems contest in the Key of E. Note the unusual form of his verse.
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Race Week
Splitting Tacks in Marblehead
By: - Jan 04th, 2015Every class of boats came from the North Shore to compete during Marblehead Race Week. There were parties on the porch of the Corinthian and car pools to take us back and forth. Then a storm came that tested our seamanship. It came down to a grudge match with Bobby my best friend and bitter opponent.
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Kiss
On the Bus
By: - Jan 04th, 2015Pretty and smart Sheliah Murphy was always one step ahead of me. On the bus I made my move and paid the price.
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Lizard King
Adonis Went to Paris to Die
By: - Jan 04th, 2015After he exposed himself on stage in Florida the career of Jim Morrison tanked. He died in a bathtub in Paris. His grave continues to be a shrine attracting a daily stream of visitors. I witnessed this during Spring Break some years ago.
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Yoko Ono
Afternoon Tea at the Ritz
By: - Jan 03rd, 2015There were mixed emotions about meeting the artist and musician, Yoko Ono, the notorious woman said to have broken up the Beatles. Over tea in the soft afternoon light I took pictures as we spoke intimately of her work and life with John. With warmth, insight and charm my resistance melted with depth and compassion.
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Jules Olitski
Odd Encounters
By: - Jan 03rd, 2015I drove to Vermont in my quirky Alpha Romeo to meet the artist Jules Olitski. He gave me the bum's rush as Clement Greenberg was about to arrive. Later at the Ritz he downed a bottle of scotch as we discussed his exhibitions at the MFA.
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Paternoster - Old European Elevators
A Poem in English and German
By: - Jan 03rd, 2015You may as well pray and wish to complete a 'Paternoster-Ride' unharmed. Accidents happened - to grown ups! As children we considered it great fun and sneaked into one of the tall office buildings in the city, where we stayed on for a long time or until a super chased us out....
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Pearl Diving
Low Tide Archaeology
By: - Jan 01st, 2015Working as a waiter was a total bust. Never learned to serve or suck up. It was better in the kitchen but long hours on busy weekends.
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Recap
Loss and Gain
By: - Jan 01st, 2015The NFL wool cap was a bargain at just a buck. Wrong logo got ragged on for losing team.
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January
Looking Forward and Back
By: - Dec 30th, 2014Janus the two faced Roman god looking forward and back in time. It's all relative compared to what?
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Tack
Not Following the Fleet
By: - Dec 29th, 2014Bobby had the fastest Fishboat. The fleet followed him around the course with the real competition for second and third. Playing to win we took the other tack.
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Pasta
Emergency Rations
By: - Dec 27th, 2014During the war we had ration cards for butter, meat, coffee and sugar. In the invent of bombing or invasion Dad has a strategy for survival.
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Bear
Nature in the Berkshires
By: - Dec 27th, 2014Our home in Adams is surrounded by woods on two side with a view across several acres and a farm house to Mt. Greylock. We have regular encountyers with wild life and critters. In clujdingh a bear cub that came knocking at my studio door.
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Romance
La Vie Boheme
By: - Dec 23rd, 2014Committing to a life in the arts does not make one a good provider. That can lead to a broken heart. As always with tough love Mom had truthful advice.
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Relic
Full of Grace
By: - Dec 23rd, 2014The altar of every Roman Catholic Church must contain relics. In Europe that often means the entire skeleton of a saint behind glass. Or as tiny as a fragment of bone or hair. As rich kids now and then we got to kiss the relics visiting the chapel of Mt. Alvernia Academy.
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Going Down
Another Take on Elevators
By: - Dec 22nd, 2014Our artist friend Robert Rendo offers a third entry in our Elevator Poems concert. He is really intent on winning a gift certificate to Burger King.
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Assisted Ready Made
Between and Rock and a Hard Place
By: - Dec 20th, 2014Long before knowing anything about art I made a Duchampian assisted ready made as a Christmas present for mom. She was thrilled at its invention but wondered what it was.
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Christmas Shopping
Diamond as Big as the Ritz
By: - Dec 20th, 2014Mom and Dad had different approaches to Christmas Shopping. She started in August and took months to build up a secret stash. He was strictly last minute and never could find the time. Gifts of cash and booze pre wrapped.
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Trimming the Tree
Let There be Light
By: - Dec 20th, 2014None but the fullest, fattest and most beautiful tree would do. A special place out on Route 9 at an open air market. Nuts and tangerines. Bought the tree on Saturday and trimmed it all day Sunday.
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Woolworth's
Pleasure and Pain
By: - Dec 20th, 2014With my tiny allowance shopped for cheap Christmas presents at Woolworth's Fin e and Dime. Perfume for Mom and wind up cars for sister Pip. Then disaster struck.
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Stops
As Though From an Elevator
By: - Dec 20th, 2014Struggling with a winter cold Stephen Rifkin rallied to enter our esteemed Elevator Poem contest. A volume of his verse was published last fall.
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Thank You Archimedes
Short History of Elevators
By: - Dec 20th, 2014Our playwright friend Mark St. Germain likes to research what he writes about. Here is a scholarly and amusing addition to our ongoing Elevator Poem contest.
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Chocolates
The Sicilians
By: - Dec 20th, 2014There is honor for a Sicilian to be treated and saved by a paisan. Omerta in an annual box of chocolates.
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Really?
Elevator Contestant Doubles Down
By: - Dec 19th, 2014A contestant in our Elevator Poem contest, the artist/ illustrator Robert Rendo, has his eyes on the prize. On these nights before Christmas he dreams of Burger King, Wendy's and McDonalds.
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