Hi Martha, I have been reading Norman O.Brown's book 'Life Against Death'.
I thought I'd try and see if there was a video 'by or about' him, on Youtube. Instead, I came across as you say "this shadowy woman", Ida Spaulding. To me, she speaks on behalf of all the millions in this ever expanding 'Ghosts in the Machine', on the Internet. marc > Thanks for posting this, Marc. Video is haunting and sent me on a Google hunt for more information about this shadowy woman. Her name is slightly familiar, but I cannot place her. The video is haunting. . . > Martha > > marc wrote: >> ABOUT MY LIFE By Ida Spaulding 9/13/09 >> >> Link to Youtube Vid >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0JB699q22U >> >> Text of poem below >> >> Nobody's interested >> in my experiences >> the things I've loved >> the time I taught >> my horses to shake hands >> or my beehives' glorious honey >> the silkworms I raised >> and got some silk to spin >> >> No one cares about the places I've been. >> Once I invited the neighbors >> for Turkish tea, fired up the samovar >> until steam rose in the Berkeley Hills. >> These friends couldn't care less >> about my experiences >> >> Nobody wants to hear >> that I sat with my first husband >> the father of our child in a gay bar >> before 'gay' was in the vocabulary >> and tried to understand that he could >> go to jail for how he loved someone. >> No one wants to hear that >> He educated me far beyond >> my university >> >> Would anyone care to hear >> about my being out of my head >> with real hallucinations? >> And I've never taken LSD. >> Anyone want to know about >> my gratitude to my husband >> for not committing me or >> drugging me to become normal >> Whatever normal is >> >> Does anyone want to see >> the notes back to me >> from Norman O. Brown >> after I sent him all my poems >> or see his new book delivered >> to me hot off the press >> Love's Body, significantly not signed >> >> No one wants to hear about Peter Orlovsky, >> his work in my garden. >> that he borrowed the car >> about riding horseback with Allen Ginsberg >> or the time I had tea at their place >> Peter so beautiful in red jockey shorts >> Allen extolling meditation >> Nobody wants to hear about that >> >> Who wants to know about >> the service trip to India? >> How to empower people who >> live the shanti towns of New Delhi. >> Nobody wants to hear that >> let alone do that >> >> Nothing about my children >> Nor about my good husband, 87 >> still in the Boulder Bolder race >> Nobody wants to hear >> how much >> I enjoy my life >> how simple I am ----- >> >> >> >> > -- > The Last Collaboration > http://www.amazon.com > Read online > http://www.furtherfield.org/friendsofspork/ > Intro by Edward Picot > http://www.furtherfield.org/features/articles/last-collaboration > > City Bird: Selected Poems (1991-2009) by Millie Niss, edited by Martha Deed > http://blazevox.org/index.php/Shop/ > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour -- -- Other Info: Furtherfield - A living, breathing, thriving network http://www.furtherfield.org - for art, technology and social change since 1997 Also - Furtherfield Gallery& Social Space: http://www.furtherfield.org/gallery About Furtherfield: http://www.furtherfield.org/content/about Netbehaviour - Networked Artists List Community. http://www.netbehaviour.org http://identi.ca/furtherfield http://twitter.com/furtherfield -- -- Other Info: Furtherfield - A living, breathing, thriving network http://www.furtherfield.org - for art, technology and social change since 1997 Also - Furtherfield Gallery& Social Space: http://www.furtherfield.org/gallery About Furtherfield: http://www.furtherfield.org/content/about Netbehaviour - Networked Artists List Community. http://www.netbehaviour.org http://identi.ca/furtherfield http://twitter.com/furtherfield _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
