Elinorama

That's me blowing the shofar--the world's oldest musical instrument. The leather straps are tefillin.

This is the eulogy I delivered for my friend Roberta.

This is my cat Dante (aka Tito)

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flaishich I think
more tongue than blintzes
more pickles red peppers
tomato pickles
mustard
than sour cream applesauce

This website and wasabi
do not even start with the same letter W
the English language used
comes from queens not Queens

though Borsht,
it's tasty
and I'm still not full.

but first impressions are only that
call back tomorrow and next month
to see how the finish finishes.

Ace

I do like your website! I wish I'd visited it sooner. I like poems that don't require a PhD to understand and I love some of your delicious phrases ("wet and spanky and mean" is wonderful). Very best wishes for your next project!

Hi El - Thought I'd finally comment on your website. I LOVED the poem to Robin. Love the picture of you blowing the shofar! You must explain to me the purpose/meaning of the tefillin, for I'm sure there is one!

Hugs! Later friend!

Shannon
Shannon

like the site....
not too off-beat
only slightly bent
with normal ties
that show the strain
of a parents who's
kid plays in the rain
peace
-blazingtortoise

Very impressed with both you and the site. It's so fun to know famous people.
JT

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Surya

Hi Surya

Hi, U need an upadate on ur site. I am not able to read more
which I want to,
Surya

Waiting !!!

your dante is so sweet too!

Please check if rating has already improved.
Surya

ur website will start getting a rating if i keep on waiting
cheers !!!
surya

u need to out surce managing ur ebsite

I am in a limbo of Dante's inferno.
Cheers !!!

Enchanted, really enjoyed the site.Addedit to my favorites. Will keep tarck.
Surya

your cat resembles another, very illustrious cat. Now late. can you guess what splendid cat that is? from, resident, apt. 14

Hey - this is great! What I want to know is how do you get all that energy to be so creative? I'd have to nap alot. Elaine in Huntington

Where's the link to the naughty poem we wrote? Aren't you proud of it? ;) I love your site. It's nice to see pictures of you and see what you're up to since we don't get to see each other much. Jackie in CT

Really enjoyed your site but I think there is one error, no doubt typographic, as I am certain that you would never knowingly praise February 18th over the ever more illustrious 19th which as you know is the birthday of Smoky Robinson as well as Your cousin Marcos

Hi Elinor!! I like your new website - it's so you. I enjoyed your new poems and love how you have links to your friends all around. ~ jane

I love your website, cousin! You are such a talent. Must run in the family. :), Adrienne

Your Web site is almost as awesome as you are -- not least because you included a photo of Dante. Avery from Birmingham

I like it very much!
-- Susie from Idaho

I like it very much too!
--Margaret from Michigan

I love the website. I immediately added it to my list of "Favorites" on my computer. So glad you included the picture of you blowing the shofar - a worthy addition to your published achievements. I look forward to following your activities on the web, and sometimes in person.
--Jackie, New York City

I like your website impossibly more, unequivocally the same and nearly as much (of course only in a fractal/fraction of a way) as I love the author/protagonist.
~-liza from catskill

Include some of your poems & many more pictures! - and of course brag about Prose Pros. xxx Martha

Smart, sassy, and fun. Just like you! --Richard in St. Paul

The ghost of birthdays past

Birthday Love

Is your birthday February 18? If so, you share it with me, Wallace Stegner, Toni Morrison, Helen Gurley Brown, Jack Palance, Yoko Ono, Molly Ringwald, John Travolta, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Dr. Dre, Andres Segovia, André Breton, A.R. Ammons, Meagan Stanton, Enzo Ferrari, Audre Lorde and probably 1 or 2 others.

Aquarian love

The Dawning of the Age

Somebody celebrates a birthday, and why shouldn’t that person be me? Just because my birthday is in February and it’s only some other month—is that any reason to deny me the presents, the cake, the attention? The presents! The cake! The clouds of glory! I like other people’s birthdays too. I like that every single person ever born has one birthday, and one only. Except the Queen of England, who has an official birthday as well as a regular one. The Chinese all have Chinese New Year for their birthday, which is taking democracy or communism or whatever it is a little too far. What’s nice in prison is they give you an extra dollop of gruel on your birthday and the guards come around in a conga line and sing happy birthday, like at Bennigan’s. For those with wimpy birthdays, however, prison can be tough. “Hey, check out the ... Virgo!” I asked my husband how deeply he regrets not being an Aquarius, like me. Based on his shocking indifference, he would do really poorly in jail, where cheerfully acknowledging my birthday is the essence of etiquette. Happy birthday to me! That is: Happy New Year!

January 1, 2008
as read at the Poetry Project Marathon

Titled & Untitled

On my birthday (www.Elinorsbirthday.com)
in 1962 (www.bigsnowstorm.com)
2 days (www.date&time.com)
before John Glenn (www.ohiosenator.com)
went into space (www.wow.com)
for a little tumble (www.contortionism.org)
South Dakota (www.landofinfinitevariety.gov)
my home state (op.cit., Elinorsbirthday)
had the hugest snow (www.stormofthecentury.edu)
since the blizzard of ’88 (ibid.)
& I didn’t get a present (www.nobaseballglove!.com)
till days (op.cit., date&time) later
but got yelled at (www.childabuse.com)
because I bounced a ball (www.rubber.com)
against my parents’ wall (www.howwasIsupposedtoknow.com)
while they were having sex (www.xxx.com)

2/18/08