{"id":2095,"date":"2018-08-19T21:53:29","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T21:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/?page_id=2095"},"modified":"2018-08-21T14:48:26","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T14:48:26","slug":"weinstein","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/weinstein\/","title":{"rendered":"Weinstein"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by W. R. Weinstein<\/em><\/p>\n

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Life, friends, is boring<\/em><\/p>

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-John Berryman\n<\/p>

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but not for you
\nwho\u2019d be
\nhere if you could
\never to confess
\nyour interest
\nin us, poetry,
\nyour urban garden,
\nBrooklyn
\nskies, one of those high
\nimmobile ones
\nyou wrote about
\nand still
\nI re-
\nread you, under
\na low moving Manhattan
\none on my mobile phone
\nwhere you speak
\nstill\u2013\u2013
\n\u201cI\u2019m here for all of you,
\nnot myself,\u201d
\nyour urbane voice
\nurgent after a few
\nin that underground
\nno-name bar
\nno longer on Sixth
\nno longer
\nRobert
\nyet here you are
\nsending us the latest
\nfrom the past:
\nLou Reed strums Perfect Day<\/em>
\nChubby Checker twists again
\nThe Chordettes barbershop
\nLollipop
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Man, I haven\u2019t got a chance<\/em>
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they sing
\nand you don\u2019t
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Poet's Statement: \"To rbt\" was sparked by a workshop assignment to write a poem to a friend in class. The friend I most wanted to write to had been missing and sorely missed by all who knew him for more than three years, yet was still very much alive in his inventive, expressive poetry and trove of emails. Robert and I shared a love of John Berryman, whose line from The Dream Songs<\/em> helped me enter the poem.<\/p>\n<\/span>\n

Bio:\u00a0W. R. Weinstein\u2019s poems have appeared in Barrow Street and Verse Daily. She holds an M.S. from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and is a film critic for Film Journal International. She lives with her husband in New York City.<\/p>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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