The Alipore Post turned two today! :)

3 poems by Ron Padgett, used beautifully in Jim Jarmusch's Paterson

Love Poem

We have plenty of matches in our house
We keep them on hand always
Currently our favourite brand
Is Ohio Blue Tip
Though we used to prefer Diamond Brand
That was before we discovered
Ohio Blue Tip matches
They are excellently packaged
Sturdy little boxes
With dark and light blue and white labels
With words lettered
In the shape of a megaphone
As if to say even louder to the world
Here is the most beautiful match in the world
It’s one-and-a-half-inch soft pine stem
Capped by a grainy dark purple head
So sober and furious and stubbornly ready
To burst into flame
Lighting, perhaps the cigarette of the woman you love
For the first time
And it was never really the same after that

All this will we give you
That is what you gave me
I become the cigarette and you the match
Or I the match and you the cigarette
Blazing with kisses that smoulder towards heaven


Poem

I’m in the house
It’s nice out
Warm
Sun on cold snow
First day of spring
Or last day of winter

My legs run up the stairs
And out the door
My top half here writing

Another One

When you’re a child
you learn
there are three dimensions:
height, width, and depth.
Like a shoebox.
Then later you hear
there’s a fourth dimension:
time.
Hmm.
Then some say
there can be five, six, seven…
I knock off work,
have a beer
at the bar.
I look down at the glass
and feel glad. Art by Nigel Van Wieck
Recommended listening: rowflip - sweetbn My Old Man - Mac Demarco + The Old Dog - Mac Demarco So Lost - Advaita My Woman - Angel Olsen (full album) Links of the Day: How the Poet Ron Padgett Spends His Sundays The Disease of Being Busy Ask a Librarian: What’s the Strangest Thing You’ve Found in a Library Book? Jim Jarmusch On Iggy Pop, Hip-Hop And Finding Poetry In Mundane Things The happy place in my head Torrent: Paterson (Happy Birthday to me. I totally forgot the date but I began this wonderful journey exactly two years ago to this date. Just did a quick 'special edition' for all of you who have been with me on this adventure. Thank you! :) Also, if you feel like joining the Facebook community (I don't like to see it as just another page), this is where we're at. There's also this group for likeminded folks to share music, poetry, art, or whatever your heart fancies that isn't spammy. Cheers. Good night.)