Friday, April 8, 2011

We Are Nature Too

I think this is a poem, or a song. Anyway: it is really something. I think. I'm going to read more Jim Harrison, and if I like him, I'll possibly pick up more Shakespeare. I've been meaning to get round to it for some time.

DRINKING SONG

I want to die in the saddle. An enemy of civilization
I want to walk around in the woods, fish and drink.

I'm going to be a child about it and I can't help it, I was
born this way and it makes me very happy to fish and drink.

I left when it was still dark and walked on the path to the
river, the Yellow Dog, where I spent the day fishing and drinking.

After she left me and I quit my job and wept for a year and
all my poems were born dead, I decided I would only fish and drink.

Water will never leave earth and whiskey is good for the brain.
What else am I supposed to do in these last days but fish and drink?

In the river was a trout, and I was on the bank, my heart in my
chest, clouds above, she was in NY forever and I, fishing and drinking.

-Jim Harrison

Here is a short film I liked.

6 comments:

  1. "...but then some rare times we value most, you're inside, looking out..."

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  2. this guy's shit is extraordinarily good.

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  3. Gotta read more of that dude. Thx for sharing it.

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  4. "What language do you speak when you talk to animals?"

    "Oh, you just squawk."


    I love it. Thanks!

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  5. Glad you liked it. I like this one too: "I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass."

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  6. One of America's best modern day poets and writers.

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