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Happy November!<\/p>\n
Item 1<\/strong> – Just in case we have another long break between posts, here is a link that will pass some time – The Longest Poem in the World<\/a><\/u> courtesy of Twitter. It collects people’s tweets and splices them together in rhymed couplets, creating sometimes charming and always ephemeral results. Couplet of the moment:<\/p>\n Just stay positive and positive things will come… Item 2<\/strong> – American Life in Poetry.<\/a><\/u> This is a weekly column written by p.otw.org favorite Ted Kooser. He features young and mostly unknown poets and couples it with a short musing of his own. A recent-ish column caught my eye due to the event it references. <\/p>\n It\u2019s likely that if you found the original handwritten manuscript of T. S. Eliot\u2019s groundbreaking poem, \u201cThe Waste Land,\u201d you wouldn\u2019t be able to trade it for a candy bar at the Quick Shop on your corner. Here\u2019s a poem by David Lee Garrison of Ohio about how unsuccessfully classical music fits into a subway.<\/p>\n Bach in the DC Subway<\/p>\n As an experiment, A thousand people and a video of Joshua Bell, the Bach-performing violinist in 2007<\/a><\/u>.<\/p>\n
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\nThe Washington Post
\nasked a concert violinist\u2014
\nwearing jeans, tennis shoes,
\nand a baseball cap\u2014
\nto stand near a trash can
\nat rush hour in the subway
\nand play Bach
\non a Stradivarius.
\nPartita No. 2 in D Minor
\ncalled out to commuters
\nlike an ocean to waves,
\nsang to the station
\nabout why we should bother
\nto live.<\/p>\n
\nstreamed by. Seven of them
\npaused for a minute or so
\nand thirty-two dollars floated
\ninto the open violin case.
\nA caf\u00e9 hostess who drifted
\nover to the open door
\neach time she was free
\nsaid later that Bach
\ngave her peace,
\nand all the children,
\nall of them,
\nwaded into the music
\nas if it were water,
\nlistening until they had to be
\nrescued by parents
\nwho had somewhere else to go.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n