Gone From View

When Paul Simon's mother died, this is the note Art Garfunkel sent him:

To Paul from Art:   We're out under the stars now, the harbor we came from is gone from view.

Excerpted from Art Garfunkel’s autobiographical What Is It All But Luminous / notes from an Underground Man ©2017

Not Supposed To Do

This poem, excerpted from Art Garfunkel’s autobiographical What Is It All But Luminous / notes from an Underground Man ©2017, reminds me of the playfulness of Shel Silverstein:

Today I'll judge my books by their covers.
I'll watch a pot, count unhatched chicks,
I'll fix the unbroken, hold secret gods divine.

A thousand fine soldiers, resplendent in
  their jacket designs, are lined in shelves
        in my aerie--
All the noble sentiments quilled,
Cry for all the milk that's spilled,
Let the unaware buyer be sold--
If the book cover glitters, it's gold;
I'll make a Top Forty polled for pretty veneers,
  how the book appears, and how it feels
    to hold and be held the whole night
       through...
Today I'll do exactly what you're not
supposed to do.

'69

Excerpted from Art Garfunkel's autobiographical What Is It All But Luminous / notes from an Underground Man ©2017:

In May of '69… Paul's writing changed from "I know your part'll go fine"-- words of a deep friendship (The Only Living Boy in New York)-- to "Why don't you write me?"-- words of frustration.

So many things that are obvious in retrospect slip by us in the present.

(An aside:  it seems petty to complain about a book's font, but this was published in something resembling Comic Sans that is very difficult to read.)