Time . . . recorded.

Freya's day . . . Forecasters seem to be using Xerox . . .

Not so for Charles Bukowski, one of America's most original poets who was born on this date in 1920 Andernach, Germany.

Another artist always reinventing herself, Madonna, turns 66 today. The contemporary pop-culture icon Madonna Louise Ciccone was born on this day in 1958 Bay City, Michigan. In May, she wrapped up her 12th world tour in Rio de Janeiro with a free concert on the beach attended by 1.6 million fans, making it the largest standalone concert event in history by a recording artist, Taylor Swift notwithstanding (yet).

The Weather is Hot On the Back of My Watch

the weather is hot on the back of my watch

which is down at Finkelstein’s

...

but you know what they say: things are tough all over,

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you can only kill what shouldn’t be there.

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and I realize that if the poems are bad

they are supposed to be bad and if they are good

they are likewise supposed to be . . .

…

It was 4:35 pm.

– Charles Bukowski, “the weather is hot on the back of my watch" from Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame: Selected Poems 1955-1973. Harper Collins.