Wednesday, November 10, 2010

words of the day--dylan thomas

I practically grew up in the Whitehorse Tavern in NYC. This was Dylan Thomas' favorite bar and the last place he drank before he died. My apt ( a block away) was tiny so I called the white horse my "living room." My close friend was a bartender there so when it was crowded on the weekend and I couldnt get up to the bar I used to go to the jukebox and put on The Doors LA woman and the was his clue that ALEX was there so he would put my drink at the end of the bar. Regardless, the whitehorse is famous for The great welsh poet Dylan Thomas. There is a painting there of him that stares back at you from the wall of him at the bar. The painting isn't great but I love it because it is seared into my memory.  On a rare occasion I will stop in and visit my old ghosts and it isn't the same place it once was but the energy and the ghost of Mr. Thomas still sits at the bar.





 


And Death Shall Have No Dominion
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 And death shall have no dominion.
Dead mean naked they shall be one
With the man in the wind and the west moon;
When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone,
They shall have stars at elbow and foot;
Though they go mad they shall be sane,
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;
Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.

And death shall have no dominion.
Under the windings of the sea
They lying long shall not die windily;
Twisting on racks when sinews give way,
Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break;
Faith in their hands shall snap in two,
And the unicorn evils run them through;
Split all ends up they shan't crack;
And death shall have no dominion.

And death shall have no dominion.
No more may gulls cry at their ears
Or waves break loud on the seashores;
Where blew a flower may a flower no more
Lift its head to the blows of the rain;
Though they be mad and dead as nails,
Heads of the characters hammer through daisies;
Break in the sun till the sun breaks down,
And death shall have no dominion.

Dylan Thomas 

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