NOVEMBER
Flippant November refuses
to leave
Hand-shaped oak leaves
heart-shaped tulip leaves
maple leaves a-dangle from
the sugar maples
colors as perfect as
the setting sun
do not remind her
one day her trees
will be naked
as a newborn babe's.
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Last night THE PANDORA PAPERS was on Frontline. Atrocities were perpetrated in El Salvador and other places by the United States of Terror.
I did not watch but may do so today.
Any mail tomro on Veteran's Day?
Okay, Scott, bring back the Yellow Plastic Bin.
Think back to all the veterans in our families.
Carmen was the opera today on WRTI FM.
Carmen (French: [kaʁ.mɛn]) is an opera in four acts by French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was first performed by the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 3 March 1875, where its breaking of conventions shocked and scandalized its first audiences.
Bizet died suddenly after the 33rd performance, unaware that the work would achieve international acclaim within the following ten years. Carmen has since become one of the most popular and frequently performed operas in the classical canon; the "Habanera" from act 1 and the "Toreador Song" from act 2 are among the best known of all operatic arias.
The opera is written in the genre of opéra comique with musical numbers separated by dialogue. It is set in southern Spain and tells the story of the downfall of Don José, a naïve soldier who is seduced by the wiles of the fiery gypsy Carmen. José abandons his childhood sweetheart and deserts from his military duties, yet loses Carmen's love to the glamorous torero Escamillo, after which José kills her in a jealous rage. The depictions of proletarian life, immorality, and lawlessness, and the tragic death of the main character on stage, broke new ground in French opera and were highly controversial.
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