I think I've mentioned I've been listening to WQXR lately while I work at home, and they sometimes play movie scores in addition to the other classical stuff, and today they played the main theme from The Magnificent Seven by Elmer Bernstein, and holy shit, guys, I forgot how good it is. It gave me literal chills, so I've been listening to it on repeat all afternoon.

(It also reminds me of my dad, and today would have been his 88th birthday, so I also got a little teary, but that's just me. I think everybody would get chills. *g*)

In more prosaic news, I got my laundry done (except towels and sheets), so all that's left is the folding and putting away, which I can do while watching tv tonight.

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Today's poem:

Descriptions of Heaven and Hell
by Mark Jarman

The wave breaks
And I'm carried into it.
This is hell, I know,
Yet my father laughs,
Chest-deep, proving I'm wrong.
We're safely rooted,
Rocked on his toes.

Nothing irked him more
Than asking, "What is there
Beyond death?"
His theory once was
That love greets you,
And the loveless
Don't know what to say.

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