{"id":258,"date":"2003-01-01T00:00:34","date_gmt":"2003-01-01T00:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theliteraryunderground.org\/juicepress\/?p=44"},"modified":"2003-01-01T00:00:34","modified_gmt":"2003-01-01T00:00:34","slug":"fox-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theliteraryunderground.org\/juicepress\/2003\/01\/01\/fox-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lili Boulanger and See You Later, Pal by Hugh Fox"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Stephen,<\/p>\n

Let me send you my two most recent poems. I’m writing in French now, translating into English, having the French corrected by my Parisian son-in-law at MIT, taking advantage of having the guy as a son-in-law.<\/p>\n

What I WISH you’d do is publish them in both versions.
\nMaybe need a little note about Lili Boulanger, something like”Lili Boulanger was an early twentieth century French composer who produced a large, mature body of work before her premature death at age 25.” See what you think.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

–Hugh Fox<\/p>\n

\nDear Hugh,<\/p>\n

Wish granted. I think it is formidable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

–Stephen Morse<\/p>\n

LILI BOULANGER<\/p>\n

Je suis dans un Paris de
\nreves d’eternite de beaute,
\nla riviere, les plus vieux batiments,
\nLe sacre Coeur qui saigne sur la ville
\nqui hier a mang’ les elephants
\ndans le parc zoologique,
\nles rois et les rebellions toutes
\nterminees, pas de pauvres et de riches,
\nceux qui ont et ceux qui n’ont pas,
\nseulemente Les Louvres revees
\nrestent, coupoles et toits,
\ncolonees qui se souviennent
\ndes grecs et des romains,
\ntout qui coule comme la Seine,
\nla precisement pourquoi
\npresque rien
\ndisparait comme Lili,
\na
\nvignt-cinq
\nans.<\/p>\n

–Hugh Fox<\/p>\n

LILI BOULANGER<\/p>\n

I’m in a Paris of dreams of
\neternal beauty, the river,
\nthe old buildings, the church of
\nthe Sacred Heart that bleeds
\nover a city where yesterday
\nthe revolutionaries
\nate the elephants in the city zoo,
\nall the kings and revolutions over,
\nno more poor and rich, haves and
\nhave-nots, only the dream Louvres
\nleft, cupolas and roofs, columns that
\nremember the Greeks and Romans,
\neverything that flows like the Seine,
\nthere precisely because almost nothing
\ndisappears like Lili
\nat
\ntwenty-five.<\/p>\n

–Hugh Fox<\/p>\n

BIENTOT, MON PETIT<\/p>\n

Petit, soixante-dix ans,
\nAutrichien juif, ses premieres annees
\na Auschwitz, mais sa famille (mystere)
\ny rechappant, autre mystere comment il est arrive’
\nau Michigan et s’est mari avec une Irlandaise convertie
\nau judaisme, toujours drole comme un petit
\nchimpanz, mais en meme temps toute l’histoire du
\nmonde un millimetre sous la surface de son crane,
\nmort aujourdhui, je ne peux pas aller a l’enterrement
\nlundi pour voir une grand partie de moi-meme
\nenterr’e.<\/p>\n

–Hugh Fox<\/p>\n

SEE YOU LATER, PAL.<\/p>\n

Tiny, seventy years old,
\nAustrian Jew, his first years
\nin Auschwitz, but his family (mystery)
\nescaped, another mystery how he got
\nto Michigan and married and Irish woman
\nconverted to Judaism, always funny like
\na little chimp, but at the same time the whole
\nhistory of the world one millimeter under the
\nsurface of his skull, dead today, and I can’t
\ngo to the buriel Monday to see a great part of
\nmyself
\nburied.<\/p>\n

–Hugh Fox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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