Cyber Risky Business (Just Take Those Old Records Off the Shelf)
Old Records
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Old Records Author(s): William Matthews Source: The Iowa Review, Vol. 7, No. 4 (Fall, 1976), p. 86 Published by: University of Iowa Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20158655 . Accessed: 13/06/2014 01:46 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. . University of Iowa is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The Iowa Review. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 195.34.79.253 on Fri, 13 Jun 2014 01:46:01 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions
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Old RecordsAuthor(s): William MatthewsSource: The Iowa Review, Vol. 7, No. 4 (Fall, 1976), p. 86Published by: University of IowaStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20158655 .
Accessed: 13/06/2014 01:46
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Your face is most difficult, the head is extremely hard to get.
Already your face is not the one
I remember. My own fingers confuse me
as I trace the curve of your forehead.
Your eyes confound me. They fly away as I touch them.
My bed is breaking with the weight of this problem. I am
lying on splinters.
I want you to know that all this
means something. It is my life's work.
Old Records / William Matthews
Les shows me his new Braun
tape deck. "After I've played them
three or four times I can hear records
begin to grind down. Now I play them once, to
tape." He's got
a wall
of them, uncirculated coins.
Things go by, the summer draining into the fall, breweries consolidate, there's a golf course where the woods
were. We're like a fire
and save things from ourselves.
Furtwangler's too fast fourth movement
that I love, Coltrane breaking bis breath in the hissing rapids,
Janis in heat, Janis in scratch,
Bjoerling's beautiful voice
ruined by whisky fuzz on ?he ripe notes and fuzz
continuing to grow.
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