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Notes from a musician's journal.(Marking Time)
I have a love-hate relationship with time. In spite of my necessary dependence on clocks, I make no real strides in managing my time, continuing to live my hours on the backside of the beat, late for everything. A few weeks ago I bought a new bedside clock. It runs not on electricity or batteries, but must be wound every night. I embraced the idea of this old-fashioned ritual in my most recent rebellion against technology. But I have discovered that the new clock loses several minutes in every twenty-four hour period, reflecting, I'm afraid, its owner's skewed sense of time.
I have an equally difficult time reconciling my life to calendars, feeling that they ...
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- Magazine article from: The American Poetry Review Hikmet, Nazim Blasing, Randy Konuk, Mutlu March 1, 1994 700+ words
...flaming streets... Thirty years ago Harkov was a city, but...little brother yet. Thirty years ago I was here, but my son...passed this way thirty years ago. 12-13 October 1957...last twelve years of his life in exile. This spring...
- MANY YEARS AGO; Your Poem.
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