Bob Holman (nuyopoman@aol.com) helped put together the Poetry USA series on PBS, lives and works (making lit records) in NYC. I believe the last of these are song lyrics, Bob being heavily and historically into the performance part of the field.




For No One
for Jim Brodey

Tompkins Sq sunset
As gorgeous to take
As it is to keep off
You go ahead, sleep
I’ll stay up & keep
The junkies at bay


Let Me Begin with The End.

Not that I am perverse,
but let’s get it over with
if it’s all the same to you.


Inside Silence

Put the hat over the yawn
To make it dawn




Why I Say Goodby



You take too much
Of the give'n'take
You lost the touch
Of the shake shake shake

That's why
That's why I say goodby

You say I got
Another girl
I say I got
The whole wide world

& that's why
That's why I say goodby

You wonder why I
Don't follow you around
It's not your fault
I get lost downtown

Yr sad I won't go on
Your shoppin' spree
But the things you wanna buy
I wanna get for free

You don't like my hair
My style or my shoes
But I rock on
No time to pick’n’choose

That's why
That's why I say goodby

Meet you at the corner
Of Love & Hate
Forgettin' is fast
& I just can't wait

& that's why
That's why I say goodby
Why I say goodby
I say goodby
Say goodby
Goodby



Bob Holman


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