They say the neon lights are bright on Broadway
They say there’s always magic in the air
“On Broadway”
Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil,
Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
QUESTION: How do you get to Carnegie Hall?
ANSWER: Practice, practice, practice!
QUESTION: Do you know the way to San Jose?
ANSWER: Don’t practice, don’t practice, don’t practice!
Fame and fortune is a magnet
It can pull you far away from home
With a dream in your heart
You’re never alone
But dreams turn into dust
And blow away
There you are
Without a friend
You pack your car
And drive away
“Do You Know The Way To San Jose”
Burt Bacharach, Hal David
I think if my cactus plants could do it
they’d steal my car and bank card and skip town,
leave me, unwatered, to dry up, turn brown.
I think my cactus plants think I blew it.
They want the desert, I’d think. I knew it.
A real writer, a writer of renown,
would drive his plants to San Jose, not frown,
transplant them and endlessly work through it.
I hate doing this to my cactus plants,
hate ignoring the fat lady singing,
hate pretending the crystal ball’s murky.
They feel fifty years old, these writer pants,
but they fit. If I drove west, stopped clinging,
I’d take a wrong turn at Albuquerque.
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Wrong turns at Albuquerque
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Five Songs: #3 – Shadows
Atlas Shrugged, Taylor Swift, Shangri-La
Shanghai Rain
2 comments:
The Greedy Growing is just like the Green manures and the first frosts. And also the plants in the garden have survived.
Immigration on a whole is very beneficial to Canada and its residents. History tells repeatedly that it is human kind that loses its previleges. Immigration is good for Canada and its people in any way you consider but the undeue advantage taken by a few people in the name of refugee act bestowed by Canadian government is being highly misused. We have to wait and see how far Canada can allow people in the name of refugees. Of course, humanitarian concerns are to be given the highest priority for human kind’s development and survival but misuse of a syustm is highly deplorable. Let us all pray that the gates of immigration be not closed for all those good people and eligible aspirants just because of the refugees who infiltrate this country and can be a bigger and unsolvable problem. As of now Canada is large in heart and resources.
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