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Author Archives: JRL
The Old College Try
You can’t make this shit up. But somebody has to, right? It doesn’t just pop up out of nowhere in full bloom without first starting as a seed before it germinates, breaks through its shell, sends out roots and tendrils, … Continue reading
Change Your Mind
“I have an idea. I want to find what the average man thinks of it. Then when we’ve found out what he thinks of it, we’ll change his thinking.” A great quote from Vincent Price’s Champagne for Caesars. But is … Continue reading
An Epitaph
Spent his life exposing anyone he could to his art, until he went broke and died from doing it. Worth every damn minute and every single penny. There’s no Nothing better. And if there was, no one could afford it. … Continue reading
Posted in Points
Tagged acceptance, ambitions, enlightenment, epilogues, epitaphs, regrets
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An Actor Prepares
At what point in your life do you look back at what you’ve been doing up to that point and say to yourself, “Man, that shit we just went through was the worst thing that could happen to a person. … Continue reading
The levels of music
Not hearing not listening ignoring sensing noticing hearing listening responding writing practicing playingmemorizing performing recording remembering18 APR 2025 © 2025, John Litzenberg. All rights reserved.
Liquid Concentration: barzaletta
Pick up that sad and ancient game;select your poison: wealth or fame.Thinking that we’re all the samecan make it hard to shift the blame. No bird can fly with one wing lame;old toothless tigers can be tamed,but still may seek … Continue reading
Posted in Lines
Tagged #BookofForms, balance, daily poems, division, illusion, Italian verse forms, poetic forms, relationship
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Musical Chairs: ballade supreme
The road is long and runs for miles between two fields on either side: one, sown with soybeans in long files The other, fallow, flat, and wide. Each season, nature must decide which one will yield the greater crop; while neither seeks to be on top it’s still a competition. Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, ballade supreme, competition, conflict, daily poems, French verse forms, futility, musical chairs, poetic forms
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