This morning's online New York Times on Paul Simon's latest show—
"Here was salvation and succor…."
The review mentions a song from Simon's new album that he did not play at last night's show—
Salvation:
After you climb up the ladder of time
The Lord God is near
Face-to-face in the vastness of space
Your words disappear
Succor:
You got to fill out a form first
And then you wait in the line
Simon is an accomplished poet, but I prefer Wallace Stevens.
… A figure like Ecclesiast,
Rugged and luminous, chants in the dark
A text that is an answer, although obscure.
— Wallace Stevens, “An Ordinary Evening in New Haven”
For clues about such a text, see yesterday's New York Lottery numbers.
