Overread at Table 4: Muffin of Sunsets by Elaine Equi

Muffin of Sunsets by Elaine Equi   The sky is melting. Me too. Who hasn't seen it this way? Pink between the castlework of buildings. Pensive syrup drizzled over clouds. It is almost catastrophic how heavenly. A million poets, at least, have stood in this very spot, groceries in hand, wondering: "Can I witness the Rapture and still make it home in time for dinner?"

 

Copyright © 2013 by Elaine Equi. Used with permission of the author.

(actually this was cut and pasted from a daily email sent by the American Academy of Poets, so they technically were using it by permission of the author.   It's here just because it made it into the café, and whatever is in the café, is for all to appreciate and enjoy!)

Overheard at Table 3: Baby You

"Baby, when I first met you I knew you were either gonna rock my world or kick my ass.   I so thank you for not kicking my ass!"

Overheard at Table Two: So-called Scandals

What's up with these so called "scandals"?   Seriously, Benghazi is about a load of BS as Fast and furious, the IRS was just doing their job, and the AP was pretty much business as usual.

The only scandal here is that we the public aren't demanding these guys get real and focus their attention on serious shit, like fracking our water supply and droning more terrorists into existence.

Overheard at Table 2: Marriages and Love Letters

I had heard a great idea yesterday, about writing love letters to your wife.  It was all like, rekindle what you used to do to get her, and all about how after years of marriage we husbands slack off and don't treat our wives like the queens we used to treat them. 

So I got this card and I went home and I was going to write a something in it about how much I love her and how wonderful she is, and wouldn't you know it, just as I got into the office to start writing, she's suddenly all yelling, "Who left these cookie crumbs in here after I spent all day cleaning this whole house and who spilled the tea and nobody has ANY respect for how hard I work and I'm just sick of everybody" and

it was me who had spilled the crumbs and I suddenly remembered why I don't write love letters to her any more.

January's Songs of the Day

1/1/2013	Bob Schneider	Round and Round
1/2/2013	Led Zeppelin	Bron Yr-Aur
1/3/2013	Gotan Project	La Viguela
1/4/2013	Little Willie John	Need Your Love So Bad
1/5/2013	The Temptations	Can't Get Next to You
1/6/2013	John Denver	Poems Prayers and Promises
1/7/2013	Of Monsters and Men	Little Talks
1/8/2013	Sonia Dada	Lester's Methodone Clinic
1/9/2013	Buffalo Springfield	For What It's Worth
1/10/2013	Eric Clapton	Give Me Strength
1/11/2013	Karnak	Comendo Uva Na Chuva
1/12/2013	David Gray	Tidal Wave (from Lost Songs)
1/13/2013	Emmylou Harris feat. Daniel Lanois	May This Be Love
1/14/2013	Slaid Cleaves	Broke Down
1/15/2013	Marisa Monte	Ensaboa
1/16/2013	Ray Charles	I Got a Woman
1/16/2013	Gordon Lightfoot	Carefree Highway
1/17/2013	Zero 7	Give It Away
1/18/2013	Miram Makeba	Unhome
1/18/2013	Bob Dylan	Shooting Star
1/19/2013	Al di Meola	Perpetual Emotion
1/20/2013	Darol Anger and the American Fiddle Ensemble	Andre de Sabato Nuovo
1/21/2013	U2	MLK
1/21/2013	U2	Beat on the Brat
1/22/2013	Project Trio	Sweet Pea
1/23/2013	Elwood	Sundown
1/24/2013	Robert Earl Keen	Lo Mein
1/25/2013	Box Car Racer	Cat Like Thief
1/26/2013	Bell Book and Candle	Rescue Me
1/27/2012	Bela Fleck	First Light
1/28/2013	The Decembrists	Don't Carry It All
1/29/2013	Timo Maas	To Get Down (Fatboy Slim remix)
1/30/2013	Rufus Cohen and Wade Patterson	So Long: Go
1/31/2013	Badly Drawn Boy	A Minor Incident

February's Songs of the Day

2/1/2013	Ladysmith Black Mambazo	Golgotha
2/2/2013	The Smiths	Ask
2/3/2013	The Weepies	Can't Go Back Now
2/4/2013	Gillian Welch	Hard Times
2/5/2013	Smog	Cold Blooded Old Times
2/6/2013	The New Amsterdams	Turn Out the Light
2/7/2013	Marcy Playground	America
2/8/2013	Cake	Love You Madly
2/9/2013	Richard Thompson	1953 Vincent Black Lightning
2/10/2013	Adriene Young and Little Sadie	Plow to the End of the Row
2/11/2013	Toufic Faroukh	Lili s'En Fout
2/12/2013	Neko Case	Magpie to the Morning
2/13/2013	Black Landlord	Dear God
2/14/2013	Tanita Tikaram	Valentine Heart
2/14/2013	Peter Mulvey	You Meet the Nicest People in Your Dreams
2/15/2013	Florence and the Machine	Kiss with a Fist
2/16/2013	Dressy Bessy	The Things You Say You Do
2/17/2013	A Fine Frenzy	Almost Lover
2/18/2013	Liz Phair	Baby Got Going
2/19/2013	White Rabbits	Percussion Gun
2/20/2013	AA Bondy	Killed Myself When I Was Young
2/21/2013	Tom Petty	Wildflowers
2/22/2013	Lucinda Williams and Elvis Costello	Kiss Like Your Kiss
2/23/2013	God Help the Girl	Come Monday Night
2/24/2013	Archive	Nothing Else
2/25/2013	Sufjan Stevens	Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
2/26/2013	A Fine Frenzy	Last of Days
2/26/2013	Muddy Waters	Mannish Boy
2/27/2013	Wailin Jennys	One Voice
2/28/2013	The Lemonheads	Waiting Around to Die

the first four months of songs of the day

Verble put the playlists down, laminated, on top of the counter, for all to see.

The Barista thinks that's a little weird, even for Verble.

John Steppenwolf wants to know why he doesn't yet have any Motorhead on any of these playlists.

Verble's wife thinks it's a waste of money.

Lucky Moran is going through each song, remembering where he was the first time he heard each.

Niall Carter just wants another cappy, dammit!

Otis Redwing thinks the list, overall, is representative of American music, even though, if pressed, he would have to admit that it is just a little "too white"

"Well, then y'all can go ahead and make your own songs of the day, then!" Verble says, huffily.
" and where's that supposed poet!   Didn't he say he was going to write at least a three-liner for each song?"

Lucky says, "I think he's hunkered down in the back booth, scribbling furiously."

Verble walks back to booth five, shouting, "OY! . . .