Once Upon A Time in the East, or Comin' over the Gap

Prelude-
Last Night in my genial Hometown of Boston I watched the Movie "X-Men ..." after walking down Boylston Street and inside the edge of the Boston Public Garden. Charles Sumner's statue was looking towards what is now the Four Seasons Hotel, so I stopped in front of the statue and ate some delicious chicken vegetable tortilla soup given to me quite unexpectedly by the kindest of folk at a restaurant down in Providence, Rhode Island, near the Amtrak. I had ordered only a coffee and some vegetable spring roll with my meager funds, but to my surprise they gave me two large containers full of vegies and chicken as I was rushing to catch a ride Back to the Beantown. Voila! Merci Beaucoup.   I do think it was chicken tortilla Soupe.  Thank you all and all the Alexanders, Als and Alejandros now... and forever. PEACE, Gutes Essen + Shalom!



Cumberland
@ 7:33 PM,
June 24, 2011
Once upon a time there was shining gold hot light and smoke BURNING INSIDE the Town of Boston. All was deep. All was intense, intense and hot burning - TRUE. And, there he was railing against or to God and against the Devil. He stood deep and tense, Cotton Mather - the Mathers. Pure white starched collars (see The Barnacle poem of Oct. 12, 2010), the Mathers against all and the World - Oh. Increase! Cotton! ------ Sunday the white clouds and blue ocean sky, and sailboats in The HARBOR. Who knows the depth of those days and Nights of Smallpox, of smoke, of heat. A Hell or No. Oh BOSTON!    There they came.   AND NOW THEY STAND IN THE DARK OF THE DAMP NIGHT, last Evening. SENATOR Charles Sumner, and Wendell Phillips, both behind the Reverend CHANNING'S STATUE, A SUMMIT OF GRANITE.  
"WE NEVER SHALL EVER BUY AND SELL MEN AND WOMEN." THANK GOD AND and Nancy, my NANCY and her family and especially the late Abe and Lee. I guess the Slotnick/Linsey/Rosenfield men are rather slow.



Coming up and OVER THE CUMBERLAND GAP

BY TRAIN we headed down into the deep land under the Mountains of Pennsylvania of vast dark coal and oil propelling us to the West and to Texas.

ON my Left along with my heart was NATHAN. Nathan Appleton, Francis Cabot Lowell's cousin, PARTNER and companion before in Scotland and the Midlands of England visiting the Cotton Textile Mills.     And even Russell Sturgis who went off sadly to England NEVER TO RETURN. AND, To my RIGHT THEY were all there Abbott, Amos, J.P., the other Sturgises, P. C. Brooks a vast array.

As we proceeded westward, the train had gone slowly up the gap.
I practiced my Transcendental Meditation and TM - Sidhi Program.

DON GASPAR DE PORTOLA & THE GRACE OF THE PRESIDIO DE MONTEREY

 up toward Humboldt
And then across to Denver for silver.
Then he, Donnie/or by his more proper
(Sort-of) name Don Gaspar, Conquistador
Of Carlos Segundo, King of Spain, Espana
with Father Junipero Serra,
... later Fort Ord.
DON GASPAR, He, the acquirer & provider of land
and of wealth to his people.

.....IN 1492

       In 1492, Columbus was a

       Jew. He sat on the

       British and made Them 

       Say Kiddush in 1492.

The Founding of Israel

Until today.

We also thank Mary Baker Eddy

Of Swampscott, Massachusetts

Whose mansion

Still sits atop

Chestnut Hill

Across from Boston College.

1-2-2012

A tale of buttons -

Of Italian tailors

And World War Two

"The Big one!"

Fo' my pal in the dinin' room today.

Dining, that is.

God Bless... Winsor Button Shop.

God Save.

page 2.

After the

War by

1947 - 48

The public

Had seemed

To have

Chosen Dewey

As the next

US Pres.

But, must be,

That at

Chestnut Hill, Mass.

Many were

Afoot or drinking' 'n no

More "press"

"A" bomb button.

ENORMITY

An Ode to Responsibility

   God's Grace Given

   To Help The Risen.

   In Our Day

   It's Given Away.

   It's Still Held

   For Hearts So Swelled.

   In Life I See

   Only You And Me.

   And I

              II

   To Uplift Your Soul

   And Make You Again Whole.

   Soul To Sole, We Walk A Beach

   A Beach Of Sand That We All Reach.

   Do Not Touch What's Not From High

   There Is Much More Than Blue Sky,

   Above This Earth That God Did Give

   A World Encompassed For Totality We Live.