Write about the personal (Farber, set by (Richard Farber)) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

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Write about the personal

Language: English

“Write about the personal 
	That will interest the Universe
Write about the universal 
	That won’t interest a soul”
“Please feel free to criticize” I tell my wife
“You have all the time in the world”
	Maybe a decade
	Maybe a year
	Maybe a month
	Maybe until tomorrow morning.

Authorship

by Richard Farber (b. 1945), "Write about the personal", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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by Richard Farber (b. 1945), "Write about the personal" [baritone and piano], from Even More Almost Haiku by an Almost Old Man [cycle number 3], no. 4. [ sung text verified 1 time]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2018-05-31
Line count: 10
Word count: 48