today is a nice fall day
there’s lots of clouds
however, they are high so
there’s not much chance of rain
I’m torn between
doing some much needed housework
watching movies
or curling up with a book
cos the lords knows
I won’t do all 3
and no…
you don’t get a vote fadder
LoL
for some reason I woke up
with a memory of an obscure song
from the 70’s
stuck in my head
I remember having
one of those new fangled
cassette tape recorder machines
in the house
my father used it to dictate
speeches for his association meetings
and I taped music from the radio
or tv
to listen to
somehow I ended up
with a full Rod McKuen tape
Called “The Seasons: The San Sebastian Strings”
Rod McKuen was
a pretty big deal
in the 70’s
the “revolution” years
he was to the USA
what Leonard Cohen was to Canada
and my mother
thought I was quite
the up and coming
young adult
because I was listening
to McKuen and Cohen
and reading
their books
of poety etc
turns out
what I was reading
was pretty much romantic porn
and therein lies
my penchant for romance
anyway,
this morning
I woke up
with “Fall”
playing in my head
I’ve been all over
the interwebs
and I can’t seem to find
a copy
anywhere
so I’m going to have to
buy it somewhere
methinks
I can’t even find it
in the iTunes store
and the Amazon copy
is gonna cost me
50 bucks
hell of a price to pay
to get a song outta
my head
this is “Do You Like the Rain”
and “It’s Raining”
on another note
my friend Ted
says that
the style in which
I write
is prose
in listening
to Rod McKuen’s stuff
that I could find
on line today
I think
I may have
finally figured out
how that happened.
