Letter from Beard's Creek

We're watching a film, Schultze Gets the Blues. It's a funny, quiet film about a man who retires from his career at the mines, and finds himself suddenly wonde

Let me kid you not, I've been delving into Yahoo Questions & Answers.  Seems they took a page off of 43things.com and made their own very active and interactive questions and answers bulletin board. I've got well into the third level, though among the top posters I see some who are seventh level khawkhems.  You get two points for every question you answer, and ten points for one best answer.  But beware you don't violate their code of ethics.  Too many people just leave bullshit answers for the two points.  You can report violators too.

We're watching a film, Schultze Gets the Blues.  It's a funny, quiet film about a man who retires from his career at the mines, and finds himself suddenly wondering what to do. I've run the film to the scene where Schultze pauses to listen to the Bobby Jones Czech band practice on a porch deck overlooking the mouth of the Mississippi.  

As he enters the bayou in his sky-blue boat, some hunters happen to fell a goose which falls on Schultze's deck.  They aren't in sight, but Schultze gets to cook goose on an open fire by the bayou's edge.  And now he hears a fiddle playing.  Sounds like Dewey Balfa. No, it's Elton Bee Cormier.  

Schulz gets a heart attack while dancing to the tunes of the Zydeco Force at a dance hall on a bayou.  He goes out in style.  Last scene is a traditional German band giving his body the farewell at the cemetery back in northern Germany.

This last week I investigated a few other poetry web sites, including gaypoetry.com/ a Chicano poetry web site, and poetryhunter.com/  My wife asked me, "Why are you posting poetry on gaypoetry.com"  I said, "Why not?  Gays like poetry too."  I want the whole world to read my poems.  I owe it to the world.  And you can check "other" for your poems.  There's room for everyone on that site.  

I've got a lot of reading to do, not to mention the Chicano poetry sites.  Now, let's check on poetry hunter website, shall we? They have a community of their own there.  Latest buzz is one of their own survived a suicide attempt, but she's actually well and glad to be alive.  Tara McHale.  She's still in hospital as we write, but recovering and receiving the wishes of many in among that poetry circle.

While there, I'm familiarizing myself with some of their poets, including Dennis O'Driscoll, Wendy Mooney, Austrian Allan James Saywell, Sugar & Spice Gonzales-Kolb, and others.  There seem to be more older and hopefully mature poets there, and they seem to support each other fairly well.

Some time after the film is over, I'll read another chapter of Cancer Ward, by Solzhenitsyn.
The Cancer Ward is a story of a community of men committed to a ward for the treatment of cancer, in the time of Communist rule.  This novel, written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, was translated from the Russian by Rebecca Frank, and published by Dial Press in 1968.  

I've got past the chapter where Kostoglotov flirts with the nursing student, and the other one where Rusanov remembers his cushy career as a Communist party bureaucrat, and learns from the news that the entire Supreme Court has been replaced.www.gaypoetry.com/

www.casa-chia.org/passportjournal.org/0-POETRY/12-Summer_2006/poetry-12_index.html

www.poemhunter.com/forum/discussion.asp?forum=1007&page=3&message=0