[New-Poetry] Re: Lyrical

[Debra Dicembre]

I knew the song...the mojo/growin' old lines reached out to me. 
Is it from the Night Ride album?


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  From: David Graham 
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  We have a winner!!!  Yes, it's Joni Mitchell, one of the most consistently inventive lyricists around, and someone I always think of when talk turns to song lyrics that "work" on the page.  


  Now, did you know the song already, Debra, or did you recognize the style?  




  On Sep 4, 2006, at 7:44 PM, Debra Dicembre wrote:


    Joni Mitchell

    DD
      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: David Graham 
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      Don't know about you all, but I'm having fun. . . .  No, not Dana Gioia, either.  Good guesses, though.   


      The author is a rather famous figure in pop music, but not Dylan. 






      On Sep 4, 2006, at 7:38 PM, Robin wrote:


        <<
        No, not Dylan.




        Dunno who it's by, but there are traces of some undigested Auden lingering in the background, as:


               Does your smile's covert complicity
               Debase as it admires


        Ah, of course -- Dana Gioia!!!    It's an out-take from +Nosferatu+, right?


                   Robin Hamilton


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        On Sep 4, 2006, at 5:42 PM, Jason Quackenbush wrote:


        at's dylan innit?




        I wonder if the following stanza appeared in, say, *Fence*'s next issue,
        whether anyone would think it particularly out of place?




          Is this just vulgar electricity
          Is this the edifying fire
          (it was so pure)
          Does your smile's covert complicity
          Debase as it admires
          (just a flu with a temperature)
          Are you just checking out your mojo
          (oohoo)
          Or am I just fighting off growing old
          (just a high fever)
          All I ever wanted
          Was just to come in from the cold




        [Extra credit to anyone who can name the author without Googling.]




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