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What is your favourite poem, and why?
  • As I walked out one evening by W.H. Auden

    https://poets.org/poem/i-walked-out-one-evening

    Or for the lazy who want to hear the poet himself read it:

    The why is that long ago, when I was in college in Maine, my girlfriend's English step-dad read it to his wife after attempting to prove he was American by driving their VW Jetta around the garden in the snow. Alcohol was involved and when everyone assembled finally convinced Tony to come back inside, an English teacher friend compelled him to read a poem as proof that he had come to terms with the car stuck in the snow out back. A life-long fan of Auden he chose As I Walked Out One Evening. As it opens, the imagery and fantastic feats of love are obviously spoken by a young man, but "time coughs when you would kiss" signalling that "time will have his fancy, tomorrow or today." You can break down what it means to you but the undeniably great lines I continue to quote on a weekly basis, albeit in my head so as not to annoy others. As I get older I stare in the basin and wonder what I've missed, but I also know that I will love my best friend, and wife 'till the salmon sing in the street.

  • Judge holds Trump in contempt for violating gag order in hush money trial
  • From what I have read, conditions of his release from the other trials include not committing ANY crime. Criminal contempt triggers this and Judge Chutkin is the most likely to jail him. Now...odds on that ACTUALLY happening...

  • American Bible Society to close its $60 million museum after 3 years
  • Oh no! Now where are people going to go to get their Disneyfied understanding of the most translated and published book in history?

    But more to the point, what is the NEXT religious-themed grift coming round the mountain?

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