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Board Administrator Username: mjm Post Number: 3623 Registered: 11-1998 |
Honorable Mention Three From Elba Charles Levenstein I. Reading yogis or detective stories, solutions embedded like tragedy, attention to the path, beginning and end predetermined, accumulation of dread or joy, the suspense of burgeoning awareness, enlightenment— And the legend ends with hero scaling a divine ladder. What a bore! Bring me a poem, jeremiad or smoldering bush, bring me a call to arms or the scourge of contradictions. II. When Peron was exiled to an apartment in Spain, sumptuous, balconied above the sun-splashed deck on which Ava Gardner lay semi-bikinied, day after day, he had visitors. The Cubans sought his return, revolutionary Napoleon from Elba. The choice: voyeurism or death in Bolivia. I actually saw the book on guerilla warfare, inscribed by Che to his friend, Juan Peron, now displayed in a rare book store in Boston. $27,500. III. This weekend friends will march on Washington, bear witness against the strutting bully, cowboy politics of a greedy, stupid class, stinking of oil and drugs and religious fervor. I will stay at home, protect my aching back, risk nothing, watch to see if tv will at least record the protest: Peron and I sit it out. |
