Jack Hirschman Rest In Peace
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A great loss to the world of poetry and letters, and to the struggle for a more just society. He was an inspiration to me.
"Jack Hirschman, former San Francisco poet laureate, activist, and famed proponent of the Beat Generation, died at his home in the city on Sunday, said the organization in which he served as a co-founder and director. He was 87 years old."
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Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: jazfish
Sorry for your loss
Sorry for your loss ,Roarshock.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Andy
Sorry to hear.
Sorry to hear.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Roarshock
The Happiness
The Happiness
There's a happiness, a joy
in one soul, that's been
buried alive in everyone
and forgotten.
It isn't your barroom joke
or tender, intimate humor
or affections of friendliness
or big, bright pun.
They're the surviving survivors
of what happened when happiness
was buried alive, when
it no longer looked out
of today's eyes, and doesn't
even manifest when one
of us dies, we just walk away
from everything, alone
with what's left of us,
going on being human beings
without being human,
without that happiness.
Jack Hirschman
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: MeditateontheQ
Sorry for your loss,
Sorry for your loss, Roarshock.
Mr. Hirschman deserves his own folder of poems in Viva's Poem's folder: https://vivalazone.org/creative-cosmic/poems-etc