Kryptonite: A Parable for Bastille Day

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July 14, 2021

Kryptonite: A Parable for Bastille Day

"You can't cancel me. I'm Superman."

<<<
Superman
is just a flash in the pan. . .

I've been around the world in a plane,
Settled a revoltuion in Spain,
The North Pole I have charted,
But I can't get started with you.

On the golf course I'm under par,
Metro Goldwyn wants me to star,
With queens I have a-la-carted,
But I can't get started with you . . .
>>>

(from "Can't Get Started," music Vernon Duke, lyrics Ira Gershwin; you'll hear it in the background of Chinatown, which has a world-class soundtrack from Jerry Goldsmith.)

Posted by The Best American Poetry on July 14, 2021 at 08:30 AM in Adventures of Lehman, Feature, Movies, Music | Permalink

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"Lively and affectionate" Publishers Weekly

Radio

I left it
on when I
left the house
for the pleasure
of coming back
ten hours later
to the greatness
of Teddy Wilson
"After You've Gone"
on the piano
in the corner
of the bedroom
as I enter
in the dark

from New and Selected Poems by David Lehman