tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89794330032648656172024-03-05T04:39:06.985-08:00Signposts In a Strange LandYou don't have to step in it, but you do anyways. Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09420947705775045078noreply@blogger.comBlogger98125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8979433003264865617.post-48023857972724346772019-04-21T21:32:00.002-07:002019-04-21T21:42:34.707-07:00Poems for the crucified, buried and risen<div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">
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<b style="text-align: left;">IX Jesus falls the third time</b><br />
by Malcom Guite<br />
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He weeps with you and with you he will stay<br />
When all your staying power has run out<br />
You can’t go on, you go on anyway.<br />
He stumbles just beside you when the doubt<br />
That always haunts you, cuts you down at last<br />
And takes away the hope that drove you on.<br />
This is the third fall and it hurts the worst<br />
This long descent through darkness to depression<br />
From which there seems no rising and no will<br />
To rise, or breathe or bear your own heart beat.<br />
Twice you survived; this third will surely kill,<br />
And you could almost wish for that defeat<br />
Except that in the cold hell where you freeze<br />
You find your God beside you on his knees.<br />
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<b>Limbo</b><br />
by Sr. Mary Ada<br />
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The ancient greyness shifted<br />
Suddenly and thinned<br />
Like mist upon the moors<br />
Before a wind.<br />
An old, old prophet lifted<br />
A shining face and said:<br />
“He will be coming soon.<br />
The Son of God is dead;<br />
He died this afternoon.”<br />
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A murmurous excitement stirred<br />
All souls.<br />
They wondered if they dreamed --<br />
Save one old man who seemed<br />
Not even to have heard.<br />
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And Moses standing,<br />
Hushed them all to ask<br />
If any had a welcome song prepared.<br />
If not, would David take the task?<br />
And if they cared<br />
Could not the three young children sing<br />
The Benedicite, the canticle of praise<br />
They made when God kept them from perishing<br />
In the fiery blaze?<br />
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A breath of spring surprised them,<br />
Stilling Moses’ words.<br />
No one could speak, remembering<br />
The first fresh flowers,<br />
The little singing birds.<br />
Still others thought of fields new ploughed<br />
Or apple trees<br />
All blossom-boughed.<br />
Or some, the way a dried bed fills<br />
With water<br />
Laughing down green hills.<br />
The fisherfolk dreamed of the foam<br />
On bright blue seas.<br />
The one old man who had not stirred<br />
Remembered home.<br />
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And there He was<br />
Splendid as the morning sun and fair<br />
As only God is fair.<br />
And they, confused with joy,<br />
Knelt to adore<br />
Seeing that he wore<br />
Five crimson stars<br />
He never had before.<br />
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No canticle at all was sung.<br />
None toned a psalm, or raised a greeting song.<br />
A silent man alone<br />
Of all that throng<br />
Found tongue --<br />
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Not any other.<br />
Close to His heart<br />
When the embrace was done,<br />
Old Joseph said,<br />
“How is Your Mother,<br />
How is Your Mother, Son?”<br />
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<b>Seven Stanzas at Easter</b><br />
by John Updike<br />
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Make no mistake: if He rose at all<br />
it was as His body;<br />
if the cells' dissolution did not reverse, the molecules<br />
reknit, the amino acids rekindle,<br />
the Church will fall.<br />
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It was not as the flowers,<br />
each soft Spring recurrent;<br />
it was not as His Spirit in the mouths and fuddled<br />
eyes of the eleven apostles;<br />
it was as His flesh: ours.<br />
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The same hinged thumbs and toes,<br />
the same valved heart<br />
that-pierced-died, withered, paused, and then<br />
regathered out of enduring Might<br />
new strength to enclose.<br />
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Let us not mock God with metaphor,<br />
analogy, sidestepping, transcendence;<br />
making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the<br />
faded credulity of earlier ages:<br />
let us walk through the door.<br />
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The stone is rolled back, not papier-mâché,<br />
not a stone in a story,<br />
but the vast rock of materiality that in the slow<br />
grinding of time will eclipse for each of us<br />
the wide light of day.<br />
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And if we will have an angel at the tomb,<br />
make it a real angel,<br />
weighty with Max Planck's quanta, vivid with hair,<br />
opaque in the dawn light, robed in real linen<br />
spun on a definite loom.<br />
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Let us not seek to make it less monstrous,<br />
for our own convenience, our own sense of beauty,<br />
lest, awakened in one unthinkable hour, we are<br />
embarrassed by the miracle,<br />
and crushed by remonstrance. Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09420947705775045078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8979433003264865617.post-16038053236506344712019-03-13T21:11:00.001-07:002019-03-13T21:11:45.202-07:00Tiny Projectors -- NPR Tiny Desk Concert<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cfhzD3QWipU" width="560"></iframe> Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09420947705775045078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8979433003264865617.post-30510625125415486762019-03-13T21:09:00.002-07:002019-03-13T21:09:51.828-07:00Nick Cave -- Breathless // Into My Arms<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1TI8xPw2aQA" width="560"></iframe>
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A friend today reminded me of Arlington Garden in Pasadena, California, a 3-acre public park featuring multiple climate-appropriate habitats, such as oak and citrus groves, desert and Mediterranean gardens, and a pomegranate amphitheater. It also has a central terrace with trees covered in wishes and prayers written on scraps of whatever seemed to be on hand.</div>
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<i>"...for my friends to have a better path in life. I also pray my [scratched out 'depression'] insecurities can go away someday."</i></div>
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<i>"Wish to spend the rest of My life with Anali Rozales - and Money"</i></div>
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<br /><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">III<br />...<br />I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you<br />Which shall be the darkness of God. As, in a theatre,<br />The lights are extinguished, for the scene to be changed<br />With a hollow rumble of wings, with a movement of darkness on darkness,<br />And we know that the hills and the trees, the distant panorama<br />And the bold imposing facade are all being rolled away—<br />Or as, when an underground train, in the tube, stops too long between stations<br />And the conversation rises and slowly fades into silence<br />And you see behind every face the mental emptiness deepen<br />Leaving only the growing terror of nothing to think about;<br />Or when, under ether, the mind is conscious but conscious of nothing—<br />I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope<br />For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love,<br />For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith<br />But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.<br />Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought:<br />So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.<br />Whisper of running streams, and winter lightning. <br />The wild thyme unseen and the wild strawberry, <br />The laughter in the garden, echoed ecstasy <br />Not lost, but requiring, pointing to the agony <br />Of death and birth.<br /><br /> - from "East Coker" by TS Eliot</span> Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09420947705775045078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8979433003264865617.post-32496935681640110522018-03-30T19:37:00.001-07:002018-03-31T07:17:35.927-07:00Roosters - Elizabeth Bishop<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At four o’clock</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">in the gun-metal blue dark</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">we hear the first crow of the first cock</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">just below</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the gun-metal blue window</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and immediately there is an echo</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">off in the distance,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">then one from the backyard fence, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">then one, with horrible insistence,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">grates like a wet match </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">from the broccoli patch,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">flares, and all over town begins to catch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cries galore</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">come from the water-closet door,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">from the dropping-plastered henhouse floor,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">where in the blue blur </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">their rustling wives admire,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the roosters brace their cruel feet and glare</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">with stupid eyes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">while from their beaks there rise </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the uncontrolled, traditional cries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Deep from protruding chests </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">in green-gold medals dressed,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">planned to command and terrorize the rest,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the many wives </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">who lead hens’ lives</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">of being courted and despised;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">deep from raw throats </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">a senseless order floats</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">all over town. A rooster gloats</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">over our beds</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">from rusty iron sheds</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and fences made from old bedsteads,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">over our churches</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">where the tin rooster perches,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">over our little wooden northern houses,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">making sallies</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">from all the muddy alleys,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">marking out maps like Rand McNally’s:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">glass-headed pins,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">oil-golds and copper greens, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">anthracite blues, alizarins,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">each one an active </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">displacement in perspective;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">each screaming, “This is where I live!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Each screaming</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Get up! Stop dreaming!” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Roosters, what are you projecting?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You, whom the Greeks elected</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">to shoot at on a post, who struggled </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">when sacrificed, you whom they labeled</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Very combative ...”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">what right have you to give </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">commands and tell us how to live,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">cry “Here!” and “Here!” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and wake us here where are </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">unwanted love, conceit and war?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The crown of red</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">set on your little head</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">is charged with all your fighting blood.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yes, that excrescence</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">makes a most virile presence,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">plus all that vulgar beauty of iridescence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Now in mid-air</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">by twos they fight each other. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Down comes a first flame-feather,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and one is flying,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">with raging heroism defying </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">even the sensation of dying.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And one has fallen,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">but still above the town</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">his torn-out, bloodied feathers drift down;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and what he sung</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">no matter. He is flung</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">on the gray ash-heap, lies in dung</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">with his dead wives </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">with open, bloody eyes,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">while those metallic feathers oxidize.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">St. Peter’s sin</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">was worse than that of Magdalen </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">whose sin was of the flesh alone;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">of spirit, Peter’s,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">falling, beneath the flares,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">among the “servants and officers.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Old holy sculpture </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">could set it all together</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">in one small scene, past and future:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Christ stands amazed, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Peter, two fingers raised</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">to surprised lips, both as if dazed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But in between</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">a little cock is seen</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">carved on a dim column in the travertine,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">explained by <em style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">gallus canit;</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><em style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">flet Petrus </em>underneath it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There is inescapable hope, the pivot;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">yes, and there Peter’s tears </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">run down our chanticleer’s </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">sides and gem his spurs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Tear-encrusted thick </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">as a medieval relic</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">he waits. Poor Peter, heart-sick,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">still cannot guess</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">those cock-a-doodles yet might bless,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">his dreadful rooster come to mean forgiveness,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">a new weathervane </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">on basilica and barn,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and that outside the Lateran</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">there would always be</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">a bronze cock on a porphyry</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">pillar so the people and the Pope might see</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">that even the Prince</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">of the Apostles long since</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">had been forgiven, and to convince</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">all the assembly</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">that “Deny deny deny”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">is not all the roosters cry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the morning</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">a low light is floating</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">in the backyard, and gilding</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">from underneath</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the broccoli, leaf by leaf;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">how could the night have come to grief?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">gilding the tiny </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">floating swallow’s belly</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and lines of pink cloud in the sky,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the day’s preamble</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">like wandering lines in marble.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The cocks are now almost inaudible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The sun climbs in, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">following “to see the end,” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">faithful as enemy, or friend.</span></div>
Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09420947705775045078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8979433003264865617.post-223194332629551852018-03-30T12:00:00.000-07:002018-03-30T18:35:23.641-07:00Good Friday; Stations of the Cross - Malcom Guite<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: -0.12px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I was lucky to hear Malcom Guite read his sonnet for the 9th Station at the Trying to Say God Conference last June. Even via Skype, it was unforgettable.</span></span><br />
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<u>VII Jesus falls the second time</u></div>
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Through all our veils and shrouds of daily pain,<br />
Through our bruised bruises and re-opened scars,<br />
He falls and stumbles with us, hurt again<br />
When we are hurt again. With us he bears<br />
The cruel repetitions of our cruelty;<br />
The beatings of already beaten men,<br />
The second rounds of torture, the futility<br />
Of all unheeded pleading, every scream in vain.<br />
And by this fall he finds the fallen souls<br />
Who passed a first, but failed a second trial,<br />
The souls who thought their faith would hold them whole<br />
And found it only held them for a while.<br />
Be with us when the road is twice as long<br />
As we can bear. By weakness make us strong.</div>
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<u>IX Jesus falls the third time</u></div>
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He weeps with you and with you he will stay<br />
When all your staying power has run out<br />
You can’t go on, you go on anyway.<br />
He stumbles just beside you when the doubt<br />
That always haunts you, cuts you down at last<br />
And takes away the hope that drove you on.<br />
This is the third fall and it hurts the worst<br />
This long descent through darkness to depression<br />
From which there seems no rising and no will<br />
To rise, or breathe or bear your own heart beat.<br />
Twice you survived; this third will surely kill,<br />
And you could almost wish for that defeat<br />
Except that in the cold hell where you freeze<br />
You find your God beside you on his knees.</div>
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- from "Good Friday; Stations of the Cross" in Sounding the Seasons</div>
Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09420947705775045078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8979433003264865617.post-87960268260720347382018-03-28T22:09:00.001-07:002018-04-10T20:13:10.309-07:00Cabled and calm<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I recently remembered some songs I loved as a kid. Consequently, I’ve been feeling little pangs of gratitude at having had a musically genius older brother share with my newly teenaged self, the kind of tunes that’s still send me up a tree.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Back then my way of seeing was largely formed by music, and I had earbuds in so often that it permanently damaged my hearing. Beethoven said, "I will hear in heaven." If I get there, I wanna pretend I can't hear him.</span><br />
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Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09420947705775045078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8979433003264865617.post-2191305743848468182018-03-10T14:02:00.000-08:002018-03-10T14:02:28.615-08:00Tom Waits two ways<br />
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The buzzard has nothing to fault himself with.<br />
Scruples are alien to the black panther.<br />
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The self-critical jackal does not exist.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tonight I went to my favorite haunt, Lulu's Bakery & Cafe. It's a downtown diner of the sort Charles Bukowski wrote about in "Nirvana", only with real frenetic substance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I like going there to do something by myself around other people. "Yeah, this is a good place for that!" my waitress Barbie laughs, adding her tips in the seat left of me at the counter. That's her real name. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bob Seger plays and my mind rolls backward: A few years ago I used to stop by every night around 12 with a book, Walker Percy's <i>Love in the Ruins</i> or David Griffith's <i>A Good War is Hard to Find </i>or Douglas Adams' <i>Mostly Harmless</i>. It was there I learned decaf still has some caffeine, the riddle of why six or seven cups left me unable to sleep solved.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On my right was her husband, Freddy, and on the other side of him sat their daughter Penelope, face pressed into the glow of a large broken phone screen. That's another name you don't hear very often. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"I've waited here hours for her to get off," he tells me. Tonight, or over time? "No, like every night she's here." </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wow. That sucks, I say. Aside from the hours, it seems like a pretty good place to work though. "Oh yeah, she makes like $200 a night. This place is always busy." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sometimes while waiting for her he goes fishing on the Riverwalk off Josephine Street. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He's caught a big catfish and some suckermouths. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Catch and release, of course. I wouldn't trust a fish from that part of the river either.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The carne guisada taco is not that good, it's kind of runny, Barbie cautions me. What do you recommend?<i> </i>They both answer, the bean & cheese & potato & bacon taco. Well, how could I not try that?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In between sprints here and around, she complains to him about her day and they talk. Sometimes he yaps as she dashes by, "Hey, I'm hungry!" She still hasn't taken his order. It makes me a little nervous. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After a while, she yells to him from behind the register, "Queso or gravy?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"What?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />"<i>Queso or gravy?</i>"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"<i>On what?</i>"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"On your chicken!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"What??"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"On me!" and they laugh.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A few minutes later, "Look what I got you!" she says and slides him a big plate of chicken fried steak and corn and mashed potatoes and gravy as sightly as moonlight on a midnight river.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And my meal was particularly good, too. And the coffee.</span> Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09420947705775045078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8979433003264865617.post-27091933360043870182018-01-11T01:58:00.004-08:002018-02-10T22:50:24.992-08:00Better Things<img border="0" data-original-height="609" data-original-width="1111" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj37fY8lDjkwXsrSvk2D8uSFRPhY3G6BXoeZJbIz18NmDIttTr-imM76rp-RNhYfUG0JctEvVi-Az_daBis7OF9PEeWSuLmM9rVYHPMprR3aQ2xNsB8nqJzN3dCuIUKu_xjW8Z22N4AwkDp/s400/Screen+Shot+2018-01-11+at+4.15.31+AM.png" style="display: none;" width="400" />
Anyone who's <i>yet</i> to see the Season 2 finale of <i>Better Things</i> ought to do that first. If you're not planning on seeing it anyway, go right ahead.<br />
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A little background: <i>Better Things</i> is a show loosely based on the life of its writer, director, and main actress, the very talented and always hilarious Pamela Adlon. It follows the lives of Sam and her three daughters: Max (Mikey Madison), the oldest; Frankie (Hannah Alligood), the middle; and Duke (Olivia Edward), her youngest. The show also features Sam's mother Phylis, played by Celia Imrie.<br />
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In this scene, Sam choreographs a dance sequence as a high school graduation present for Max. It caps an episode in which Max haggles for a mother-free graduation party and then suffers the broken promise of an absentee father during the ceremony.<br />
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Pay attention here to their facial expressions: Sam's relaxed and steady focus, her self-assured grin. She knows the dance may go under-appreciated like pretty much all the insane work she puts into parenting, but she wanted to do this thing of beauty for Max, and she's nailing it.<br />
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Alligood is exceptionally talented, but whereas her mom is also a professional actress on the show, Frankie is just a child. Like any teen, she's very selective about where she keeps her attention. She's quick-witted like her mother, but brash and inconsiderate in an adolescent way. Still a good kid wanting to rally, she's more careful here, more absorbed in her movements.<br />
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