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7wo7rees

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9. God Bless DETROIT Tonight

Reply to Octafish (Original post)

Tue Jan 22, 2013, 12:59 AM

Jan 2013

My home for many years. The high school years. The years of the Electrifying Mojo.
It was all poetry. Serving toasted almond bars to the Bad Boys riding go-karts at 2am on Van Dyke.
I am in awe of the closeness I experienced to the end so early in life. I survived Detroit.
I can experience Jupiter in my 40's. Thank you Octafish.

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Look up in the sky and remember today: A REAL Trifecta [View all] Octafish Jan 2013 OP

Skies also figured significantly in Richard Blanco's poem. nt patrice Jan 2013 #1

A magnificent poem by un Galán. Octafish Jan 2013 #2

Magnificent is the word for this . . . patrice Jan 2013 #3

No, I will listen for it. Octafish Jan 2013 #4

I'll have to listen to a recording too, in the last half of the speech somewhere, in one of his patrice Jan 2013 #5

I did 2naSalit Jan 2013 #12

I loved that turning back to see; it spoke very deeply to me for some personal reasons. nt patrice Jan 2013 #26

i feel the same way about this poem and this poet Tumbulu Jan 2013 #13

Iheard it too. What a nice sound...it fit with the tone of the poem and the speech... CTyankee Jan 2013 #24

Oh good! I haven't had time to review it yet. & I need to bookmark Blanco's reading of One Today for patrice Jan 2013 #25

Lovely n/t Oilwellian Jan 2013 #6

:) iandhr Jan 2013 #7

I tried getting my family away from the tee vee... Octafish Jan 2013 #20

Funny, I just looked at the moons of Jupiter last night. Spitfire of ATJ Jan 2013 #8

That's beautiful. Like observing a miniature solar system. Octafish Jan 2013 #21

That's a thing I mention to average people.... Spitfire of ATJ Jan 2013 #23

God Bless DETROIT Tonight 7wo7rees Jan 2013 #9

Thank you, 7wo7rees! Peace and joy to you and yours in the New Year! Octafish Jan 2013 #22

Wow 2naSalit Jan 2013 #10

That sounds magical!~ nt Tumbulu Jan 2013 #14

It sure looks and feels magical. 2naSalit Jan 2013 #15

Me too! nt Tumbulu Jan 2013 #16

K & R! lonestarnot Jan 2013 #11

I'm looking at it right now in North Carolina. It's very close. Hissyspit Jan 2013 #17

Jupiter looks superiffic through my 8-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain slackmaster Jan 2013 #18

awwww...I miss jack Adenoid_Hynkel Jan 2013 #19