Rod McKuen is 73 today!

[Contrary1]

Baby Boomers need no introduction. For those who do not know who Rod McKuen is,
you are missing out on one of the most brilliant poets of the 20th century. I suggest
a trip to the library. You won't regret it.

Now; more than ever, so true...

No elected body is the country, we are the country. You and me. Us. It can only stay
that way as long as we care to keep it so. - Rod McKuen

[Jim Sagle]

1. Does he still suck?

[Viva_La_Revolution]

3. bah!!!

why do you hate our poetry's?

:P

[dipsydoodle]

6. You just

made my day:headbang:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

2. ....

Once I thought I'd charmed the breeze,
trees laughed at me. Foolish suitor of
the world you might have been less ambitious in your quest.
But love is love and I will do my very best
to please the lady.

Smokestacks also, not just nature, put
their wide black arms around my middle,
hold me, haunt me, want me to embrace
the fatal feted air they bellow, belch..

No help comes as I tramp on, enchanted
by the cities marble mansions, beguiled
by suburb shacks and their surroundings.
Sounds I hear are my beloved world's sighs.

Happy birthday!!

[Ron Green]

4. Listen to the Warm Milk . . .

[QC]

5. There was an old man of Nantucket.... n/t