Adieu 2022

Happy New Year!  For the past several years, I’ve been writing homages to a wide range of people who have passed this year. The verses are in no particular order and some of them are well-known and many were unknown to me, but all of them led fascinating lives. 
These verses are not meant to be read  in one sitting but something to look on occasion and as a opportunity to reflect on these amazing lives and to consider our own brief time on this planet. 
I would love to hear your thoughts. 
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2022 – R.I.P
This year my death was not to be Though <a href=”https://youtu.be/LXkKEJPd5CQ”>some who left</a> meant a lot to me But I am so relieved you’re not to see “I knew you well, Democracy”
I sorta tend toward glass half empty (While longing for a quart of whiskey) And while the polls remained quite unfriendly And a bet on sanity seemed kinda risky
The wave of blood was but a ripple And breaking, Trump had a plan But like a dangling participle There are things that cannot stand
But there was a deluge of bad news Women will die in alleys As they lost the right to choose And kids murdered in Uvalde
Rain forests will soon be gone Dirty bombs a threat And yet we wake in hope at every dawn That we’re not done….yet
In the face of much injustice A Court that’s lost its mind There is a current that runs amongst us That calls us to be kind
Many in these obituaries I know nothing of But all of them extraordinary and I always fall in love
None of them pure saint or sinner (well, excepting Jerry Lee) They make me see I’m just a beginner In learning how to be
To be more generous and sharing To get out outside my head More gentle and more caring Of the living and the dead
A moment ago I was a boy Learning how to dance Have I forgotten that joy? Not a chance!
<a href=”https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/oct/17″>Ivy Joe Hunter</a> – 1940
<a href=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Ivy-Jo-Hunter-Motown-Archives-1.jpeg”><img class=”wp-image-3127 size-thumbnail alignleft” src=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Ivy-Jo-Hunter-Motown-Archives-1-150×150.jpeg” alt=”” width=”150″ height=”150″></a>
Along with two other fellas He sent an invitation across the nation Via Martha and those holy mother Vandellas Swingin’ and swayin’ records playin’
<a href=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KhbM2mqhCQ”>Dancin’ in the street</a>!
Could there be a better way to pray? The rhythm begins and you start to sway So grab a she or he or they Oh sweet music take us away!
<a href=”https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/12/14/magazine/gun-violence-america-child-deaths.html”>Sincere Cole</a> – 2005
<a href=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/download-5.jpeg”><img class=”size-thumbnail wp-image-3133 alignleft” src=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/download-5-150×150.jpeg” alt=”” width=”150″ height=”150″></a>Cars, once, held the the top spot But this year we got a new number one More than 3500 kids were shot Lives barely begun, he was just one

His mother died five years before He was starting to smile again Soft brown eyes, didn’t want to be poor And worked odd jobs hours on end
He helped a woman pump gas on his last night Another stranger he befriended And then his life passed underneath the lights Let us now praise the 2nd Amendment
<a href=”https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/27/arts/music/ray-edenton-dead.html”>Roy Edenton</a> – 1926
<a href=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/27edenton-jumbo.jpg”><img class=”size-thumbnail wp-image-3138 alignleft” src=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/27edenton-jumbo-150×150.jpg” alt=”” width=”150″ height=”150″></a>Of his guitar, few praises were sung Because the accolades went to those Like Hank, Elvis and Neil Young Patsy, Loretta, The Everly Bros

<a href=”https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/22/science/space/maarten-schmidt-dead.html”>Maarten Schmidt</a> – 1929
<a href=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/merlin_213551649_656eb190-e924-42e8-95c7-9faf65793f1a-jumbo.jpg”><img class=”size-thumbnail wp-image-3139 alignleft” src=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/merlin_213551649_656eb190-e924-42e8-95c7-9faf65793f1a-jumbo-150×150.jpg” alt=”” width=”150″ height=”150″></a>He discovered a quasar, was on the cover of Time Was said to be like Galileo While I discovered a flavor: tuna with lime Sourdough bread, slice of tomato

<a href=”https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/17/arts/music/ralph-emery-dead.html”>Ralph Emery</a> – 1933
<a href=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/17emery-1-jumbo.jpg”><img class=”size-thumbnail wp-image-3140 alignleft” src=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/17emery-1-jumbo-150×150.jpg” alt=”” width=”150″ height=”150″></a>Country music’s Dick Clark in his eternal youth His affable air on radio waves Carried the spark of three chords and the truth It was rare when he was fazed

Except when he was the “<a href=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBzyosxDKzY”>Drug Store Truck Drivin’ Man</a>” A sendup penned by The Byrds Ralph mocked them at his Ole Opry Grand Where the traditional was preferred
<a href=”https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/29/obituaries/ronnie-hawkins-dead.html”>Ronnie Hawkins</a> – 1935
<a href=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/29hawkins-3-superJumbo.jpg”><img class=”size-thumbnail wp-image-3141 alignleft” src=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/29hawkins-3-superJumbo-150×150.jpg” alt=”” width=”150″ height=”150″></a>A crazy quilt music was well within him When he crossed the Canadian prairie his music rooted in primal rock rhythm of Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry.

Revered by the boys in the band Before they were The Band of The Master When The Hawk took off, he didn’t land He just flew higher and faster
<a href=”https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/05/arts/music/bobby-rydell-dead.html”>Bobby Rydell</a> – 1942
<a href=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/05rydell-top-01-superJumbo-1.jpg”><img class=”size-thumbnail wp-image-3119 alignleft” src=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/05rydell-top-01-superJumbo-1-150×150.jpg” alt=”” width=”150″ height=”150″></a>Let’s hit the brakes, do a one-eighty when Socks were bobby and boys were swell Be my baby Frankie and Fabian ci mancherà “Volare” and Bobby Rydell

<a href=”https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/23/us/ilse-nathan-ruth-siegler-scheuer-dead.html”>Ilse Nathan and Ruth Siegler</a> – 1924 and 1927
<a href=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/22Scheuer5-superJumbo.jpg”><img class=”size-thumbnail wp-image-3144 alignleft” src=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/22Scheuer5-superJumbo-150×150.jpg” alt=”” width=”150″ height=”150″></a>
These sisters died within days of one another Sixty-eight years after Auschwitz-Birkenau The ashes of father, mother and brother Darken our skies because then is now

We must allow the vow  “Never Again! To resonate ever more urgently From Trump to Putin to Le Pen We’re in a State of Emergency
<a href=”https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/12/arts/music/ronnie-spector-dead.html”>Ronnie Spector</a> – 1943
<a href=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/12spector1-jumbo-1.jpg”><img class=”size-thumbnail wp-image-3190 alignleft” src=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/12spector1-jumbo-1-150×150.jpg” alt=”” width=”150″ height=”150″></a>She led The Ronettes with bad-girl edge <a href=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSPpbOGnFgk”>“Be My Baby”</a> was not sweet fantasia Because she walked romance right up to the edge A “Mean Streets” fit for Scorcese
Amy Winehouse, Chrissie Hynde In Ronnie’s voice, it’s there they found Sex soul art intertwined The rock and roll heart of the wall of sound 
<a href=”https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/28/arts/music/jerry-lee-lewis-dead.html”>Jerry Lee Lewis</a> – 1935
<a href=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/jerrylee-2.jpg”><img class=”size-thumbnail wp-image-3194 alignleft” src=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/jerrylee-2-150×150.jpg” alt=”” width=”150″ height=”150″></a>“<a href=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfilJ4hNZYI”>What made Milwaukee famous</a> Made a fool out of me” And while his country songs could be contagious It was his rock & roll that set us free
A kid with audacity, nerve, capacity Outrageous-ablazed life on a wire Naturally nasty, unswerving tenacity Goodness Gracious, <a href=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IjgZGhHrYY”>Great Balls of Fire</a>!!
<a href=”https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/21/arts/music/lenny-lipton-dead.html”>Leonard Lipschitz</a> – 1940
<a href=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/21lipton-superJumbo-1.jpg”><img class=”size-thumbnail wp-image-3195 alignleft” src=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/21lipton-superJumbo-1-150×150.jpg” alt=”” width=”150″ height=”150″></a><a href=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z15pxWUXvLY”>Puff the Magic Dragon </a> Was written by this guy Along with Peter Yarrow And neither one was high
Puff the Magic Dragon Brought money to set him free And he frolicked in California bliss Inventing 3-D technology
<a href=”https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/09/arts/music/lamont-dozier-dead.html”>Lamont Dozier</a> – 1941
<a href=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/09dozier2-jumbo-1.jpg”><img class=”size-thumbnail wp-image-3197 alignleft” src=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/09dozier2-jumbo-1-150×150.jpg” alt=”” width=”150″ height=”150″></a>grocery bags were torn apart He needed paper to write lyrics He had the lowdown on Motown art And an ear that could hear hits
He opened his chart-topping song With a phrase that descended from above On his door, a lover knocked too long He cried, “<a href=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPBkiBbO4_4″>Stop in the Name of Love!</a>”
<a href=”https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/17/sports/olympics/jim-redmond-dead.html”>Jim Redmond</a>
<a href=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/olympics.jpg”><img class=”size-thumbnail wp-image-3196 alignleft” src=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/olympics-150×150.jpg” alt=”” width=”150″ height=”150″></a>The Olympic Games, his son, lame Fate to blame for a lost shot at fame Heart aflame, The Father came There is no shame when love is the aim

<a href=”https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/24/movies/louise-fletcher-dead.html”>Louise Fletcher</a> – 1934
<a href=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/24fletcher-02-jumbo.jpg”><img class=”size-thumbnail wp-image-3203 alignleft” src=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/24fletcher-02-jumbo-150×150.jpg” alt=”” width=”150″ height=”150″></a>She played the villainous Nurse Ratched equalled only by The Wicked Witch In being evil in every facet As history’s most cinematic bitch
But when she gave her Oscar speech She let the fiction fall behind And to her parents (hearing out of reach) eloquently, she signed
And into our hearts the cuckoo flew “<a href=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGl5U7nNlkY”>You are seeing my dream come true</a>”
<a href=”https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/24/arts/music/jim-post-dead.html”>Jim Post</a> – 1939
<a href=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/22Post-jumbo-1.jpg”><img class=”size-thumbnail wp-image-3202 alignleft” src=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/22Post-jumbo-1-150×150.jpg” alt=”” width=”150″ height=”150″></a>“<a href=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIle499B-o4″>I think it’s so groovy now</a> That people are finally gettin’ together” Even then it threw me how This tune by any measure
Could be considered a strong song It did not at all move me But before long I sang along Feelin’…well…groovy
<a href=”https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/28/theater/rita-gardner-dead.html”>Rita Gardner</a> – 1934
<a href=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/27gardner-superJumbo-1.jpg”><img class=”size-thumbnail wp-image-3201 alignleft” src=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/27gardner-superJumbo-1-150×150.jpg” alt=”” width=”150″ height=”150″></a>Try to remember, all you romantics The only woman in the show She was Luisa in The Fantasticks Several million performances ago

<a href=”https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/14/business/media/dan-wieden-dead.html”>Dan Wieden</a> – 1945
<a href=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/12Wieden1-jumbo-1.jpg”><img class=”size-thumbnail wp-image-3199 alignleft” src=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/12Wieden1-jumbo-1-150×150.jpg” alt=”” width=”150″ height=”150″></a>A buttoned-down mad man who sure knew how to pitch And Air Jordans flew out the store Nike became a brand, Phil Knight got rich From the final words of Gary Gilmore
“Let’s do it!” he had said at the moment he was shot It took away Weiden’s breath It may not be “just” but like it or not Capitalism is built on death
<a href=”https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/14/arts/robbie-coltrane-harry-potter-dead.html”>Robbie Coltrane</a> – 1950
<a href=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/14ROBBIE-COLTRANE-death-jumbo-1.jpg”><img class=”size-thumbnail wp-image-3205 alignleft” src=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/14ROBBIE-COLTRANE-death-jumbo-1-150×150.jpg” alt=”” width=”150″ height=”150″></a>He played an addicted psychologist (aren’t they all?) All his characters carefully crafted But the role that left children enthralled Was groundskeeper Rubeus Hagrid
<a href=”https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/11/arts/music/anita-kerr-dead.html”>Anita Kerr</a> – 1927
<a href=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/11Kerr1-jumbo-1.jpg”><img class=”size-thumbnail wp-image-3206 alignleft” src=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/11Kerr1-jumbo-1-150×150.jpg” alt=”” width=”150″ height=”150″></a>You know that aahing and oohing On oh so many songs? That’s Anita Kerr’s doing Yet it seemed so wrong
At least that’s how it felt When her soothing sounds Beat out “Help” When the Grammys came round
<a href=”https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/11/arts/angela-lansbury-dead.html”>Angela Lansbury</a> – 1925
<a href=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/merlin_43902186_6af86089-420a-4b1e-a514-8b7ad15a5300-superJumbo-1.jpg”><img class=”size-thumbnail wp-image-3208 alignleft” src=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/merlin_43902186_6af86089-420a-4b1e-a514-8b7ad15a5300-superJumbo-1-150×150.jpg” alt=”” width=”150″ height=”150″></a>She had a lot to say when still a youth From Boyer to Broadway to amateur sleuth Mrs. Lovett’s pies were so darned delicious But her recent demise? Perhaps suspicious?

<a href=”https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/11/books/leonard-kriegel-dead.html”>Leonard Kriegel</a> – 1933
<a href=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/polio.jpg”><img class=”size-thumbnail wp-image-3209 alignleft” src=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/polio-150×150.jpg” alt=”” width=”150″ height=”150″></a>Polio felt like a crime, heartless disdainful, stealing exuberance “Life was at the same time harsh and painful, tender and humorous.”
The loss of legs led to rage But this rawness until then, never put to page A memoir unsparing of “after and before” Daring for this airing back in 1964
<a href=”https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/09/arts/dance/kevin-locke-dead.html”>Kevin Locke</a> – 1954
<a href=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/00Locke3-jumbo.jpg”><img class=”size-thumbnail wp-image-3210 alignleft” src=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/00Locke3-jumbo-150×150.jpg” alt=”” width=”150″ height=”150″></a>In Lakota, he was Tokaheya Inajin, or “First to Rise” Preserved culture through performance He helped us look at the world through ancient eyes The wind the river sustain and inform us
<a href=”https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/08/us/billy-sothern-dead.html”>Billy Southern</a> – 1977
<a href=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/07SOUTERN-02-jumbo.jpg”><img class=”size-thumbnail wp-image-3213 alignleft” src=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/07SOUTERN-02-jumbo-150×150.jpg” alt=”” width=”150″ height=”150″></a>A drug arrest when he was a teen He knew privilege decided the case Spent his life defending obscene sentences to life for race
And yet he suffered his solitary trial And took his own life away Friends recall his engaging smile As he quoted St. Vincent Millay
Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.
<a href=”https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/06/arts/judy-tenuta-dead.html”>Judy Tenuta</a> – 1949
<a href=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/06xp-Tenuta-02-superJumbo-v2.jpg”><img class=”size-thumbnail wp-image-3212 alignleft” src=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/06xp-Tenuta-02-superJumbo-v2-150×150.jpg” alt=”” width=”150″ height=”150″></a>Love Goddess, Aphrodite of the Accordion The oddest, immodest sprite – what’s her story and How did she best the rest of the comics In a world sexist and so testeronic?

<a href=”https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/04/books/theo-richmond-dead.html?searchResultPosition=26″>Theo Richmond</a> – 1929
<a href=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/richmond.jpg”><img class=”size-thumbnail wp-image-3214 alignleft” src=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/richmond-150×150.jpg” alt=”” width=”150″ height=”150″></a>He wrote of his return to where he had never been: To Konin – a quest to address the sins of Berlin From memories of those who fled from his parents’ home We hear the voices of the dead and they say
                                        “Shalom”.
<a href=”https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/04/arts/music/loretta-lynn-dead.html?searchResultPosition=34″>Loretta Lynn</a> – 1932
<a href=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/loretta-lynn-obituary-slide-WP17-superJumbo-2.jpg”><img class=”size-thumbnail wp-image-3156 alignleft” src=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/loretta-lynn-obituary-slide-WP17-superJumbo-2-150×150.jpg” alt=”” width=”150″ height=”150″></a>She came from Butcher Holler At fifteen she did marry She was a coal miner’s daughter But also the canary

Would she survive the toxic airwaves Nashville masculinity? But she did thrive and was on her way To Kentucky girl divinity
<a href=”https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/17/arts/television/robert-clary-dead.html”>Robert Clary</a> – 1926
<a href=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/17clary-02-jumbo.jpg”><img class=”size-thumbnail wp-image-3157 alignleft” src=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/17clary-02-jumbo-150×150.jpg” alt=”” width=”150″ height=”150″></a>And now they’re all gone, those Heroes of Hogan History’s weirdest bromance But stranger still? Consider the notion A twelve-year-old boy in France

Sun-shiny bright – he loved the movies Learned to dance from Fred Unaware of the night to all who were Jewish Till his parents and siblings were dead
He said he survived by using his gift Providing a respite from doom He sang and danced, provided a lift And Buchenwald is a pretty tough room
<a href=”https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/10/arts/music/patrick-haggerty-dead.html”>Patrick Hagerty</a> – 1944
<a href=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/09haggerty-01-jumbo.jpg”><img class=”size-thumbnail wp-image-3158 alignleft” src=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/09haggerty-01-jumbo-150×150.jpg” alt=”” width=”150″ height=”150″></a>He loved his mama, had a dog and a truck But wasn’t exactly Grand Ole Opry Openly gay country singer. What the fuck?! And get this: he came out in ‘73!

Stonewall inspired his coming out Released a record of country tunes Bought only by friends and fans devout The dawn of fame was over by noon
Rediscovered after forty-some years Straight and gay sang along He credited his father for easing his fears: Don’t let anyone say your life is wrong
<a href=”https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/10/us/lois-curtis-dead.html?searchResultPosition=49″>Lois Curtis</a> – 1967
<a href=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/10curtis-01-jumbo.jpg”><img class=”size-thumbnail wp-image-3159 alignleft” src=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/10curtis-01-jumbo-150×150.jpg” alt=”” width=”150″ height=”150″></a>A child unwell, age twelve sedated Twenty years in institutions Mental health hell, but undegraded Unabated, she aided a revolution

“Get me out of here!” she staked her claim She called out the indifferent and imperious She made it clear that there is no shame In simply saying “You can’t be serious!”
<a href=”https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/08/business/economy/herman-daly-dead.html?searchResultPosition=45″>Herman Daly</a> – 1938
<a href=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/07daly-01-superJumbo.jpg”><img class=”size-thumbnail wp-image-3160 alignleft” src=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/07daly-01-superJumbo-150×150.jpg” alt=”” width=”150″ height=”150″></a>To capitalists: a nemesis He battled this: the premises Of the gospel of economic growth Money or morals? You can’t have both

<a href=”https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/24/arts/music/pablo-milanes-dead.html”>Pablo Milanés</a> – 1943
<a href=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/00Milanes-02-jumbo.jpg”><img class=”size-thumbnail wp-image-3161 alignleft” src=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/00Milanes-02-jumbo-150×150.jpg” alt=”” width=”150″ height=”150″></a>Troubadour of the Cuban Revolution then created another with his art Soul, jazz, Afro-Cuban fusion: Nueva trova! And that was just the start

He revived careers, neglected for years Sparked hope in a Caribbean united Branded a subversive – it became clear His love for Castro unrequited
Said to be the Dylan of Latin America As the accolades poured forth But wouldn’t it be more than fair enough To say Bob’s the Pablito of the North.
<a href=”https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/26/arts/music/irene-cara-dead.html”>Irene Cara</a> – 1959
<a href=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/irene.jpeg”><img class=”size-thumbnail wp-image-3177 alignleft” src=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/irene-150×150.jpeg” alt=”” width=”150″ height=”150″></a>What a feeling: I’m gonna live forever Sentiments sublime The essence of being when it all comes together And we step outside of time

<a href=”https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/05/books/doris-grumbach-dead.html”>Doris Grumbach</a> – 1918
<a href=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/merlin_182125134_52f9c988-e34b-4794-9f6c-a1190d3be7f8-superJumbo.jpg”><img class=”size-thumbnail wp-image-3162 alignleft” src=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/merlin_182125134_52f9c988-e34b-4794-9f6c-a1190d3be7f8-superJumbo-150×150.jpg” alt=”” width=”150″ height=”150″></a>She wrote novels and memoirs Essays and literary criticism Editor at New Republic and NPR And with Mary McCarty has a schism

I’m unfamiliar with her oeuvre But I think that I should start Just this quote helps me remove The hardness in my heart:
‘The most lamentable loss in the elderly spirit is the erosion of hope.”
<a href=”https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/03/world/europe/hannah-pick-goslar-dead.html”>Hannah Pick-Goslar</a> – 1928
<a href=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/merlin_215895906_c561584e-faf2-4419-9849-47ff0cc37720-superJumbo-1.jpg”><img class=”size-thumbnail wp-image-3163 alignleft” src=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/merlin_215895906_c561584e-faf2-4419-9849-47ff0cc37720-superJumbo-1-150×150.jpg” alt=”” width=”150″ height=”150″></a>In kindergarten, a friendship started No sign of the coming fire It ended while closely guarded Feeding Anne Frank through barbed wire

<a href=”https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/22/world/americas/hebe-de-bonafini-dead.html”>Hebe de Bonafini</a> – 1928
<a href=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/21debonafini-01-jumbo.jpg”><img class=”size-thumbnail wp-image-3164 alignleft” src=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/21debonafini-01-jumbo-150×150.jpg” alt=”” width=”150″ height=”150″></a>In morgues she searched for her missing sons their fate worse than she had feared She suffered in uncertainty, she was only one Of 30,000 thousand mothers of The Disappeared

How does one go on when one cannot go on? The unimaginable: an imagined scream Wake up at dawn, put your shoes on And go about overthrowing a regime
<a href=”https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/20/arts/music/danny-kalb-dead.html?searchResultPosition=9″>Danny Kalb</a> – 1942
<a href=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/20kalb-danny1-jumbo-3.jpg”><img class=”size-thumbnail wp-image-3165 alignleft” src=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/20kalb-danny1-jumbo-3-150×150.jpg” alt=”” width=”150″ height=”150″></a>Dylan crashed with him when Bob left Hibbing They hit The City with nothin’ to lose Dylan cashed in but Danny opted for giving Dues to The Project playing the blues

Van Ronk, Al Kooper were part of his odyssey But when Muddy Waters heard him play And said, “Oh man, you really got to me” Danny could have died and been OK.
<a href=”https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/30/arts/music/christine-mcvie-dead.html?searchResultPosition=5″>Christine McVie</a> – 1943
<a href=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/30mcvie-04-1-7549-jumbo.jpg”><img class=”size-thumbnail wp-image-3188 alignleft” src=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/30mcvie-04-1-7549-jumbo-150×150.jpg” alt=”” width=”150″ height=”150″></a>Never a voice quite like it Like out of myth she came Her dad a violinist, her mother a psychic “Perfect” – her maiden name

Sedate sonatas on the piano When boogie bass took her left hand Fats Domino shows how it goes so Sweet Hello! And goodbye Chopin!
A Fleetwood Mac replacement For the wounded <a href=”https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/26/arts/music/peter-green-dead.html”>Peter Green</a> It’s a fact not overstatement No “Rumours” without Christine
“<a href=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV9JJmSCiI8&t=4s”>Don’t Stop”</a> and “<a href=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXWia0TWAMM&t=2s”>Over My Head</a>” Week after week at number one Pop that rocked and led you to bed <a href=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJo3Rq5Fubc”>She made lovin’ fun</a>
<a href=”https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/07/movies/james-caan-dead.html”>James Caan</a> – 1940
<a href=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/07caan1-jumbo-v2.jpg”><img class=”size-thumbnail wp-image-3184 alignleft” src=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/07caan1-jumbo-v2-150×150.jpg” alt=”” width=”150″ height=”150″></a>A cowboy with Mitchum and Wayne (he said the latter cheated at chess) He was in “Misery” with a fan gone insane and Bonasera’s greatest success
In “Brian’s Song”, the dying friend, An editor with an Elf for a son Tolls booths were not his friend And his <a href=”https://clip.cafe/the-godfather-1972/the-gunll-be-there/”>brother’s dick wouldn’t do for a gun</a>
A sailor, a gambler, made you cry and laugh Not-so-bright tough guys his thing It would be apt for his epitaph: “<a href=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EaR5x3Mh6M”>Bada Bing</a>!”.
<a href=”https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/06/movies/peter-bogdanovich-dead.html”>Peter Bogdanovich</a> – 1939
<a href=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/00bogdanovich-toppix-superJumbo.jpg”><img class=”size-thumbnail wp-image-3186 alignleft” src=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/00bogdanovich-toppix-superJumbo-150×150.jpg” alt=”” width=”150″ height=”150″></a>This is how he described his early life: “I was born and then I liked movies” Then Polly Platt became his wife And then they made these beauties

“The Last Picture Show”, “What’s Up, Doc?” “Paper Moon”, Orson-ish tour de force But like Welles, well, he fell, widely mocked Sex, Sybil, divorce of course
His knowledge and homages were vast Friends with Hawks, Ford and Hitch But one director eluded his grasp: Bogdanovich!
<a href=”https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/07/movies/sidney-poitier-dead.html”>Sidney Poitier</a> -1927
<a href=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/merlin_116048183_6005ff54-74c0-4cd5-b903-fd339037ed9e-superJumbo-1.jpg”><img class=”size-thumbnail wp-image-3176 alignleft” src=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/merlin_116048183_6005ff54-74c0-4cd5-b903-fd339037ed9e-superJumbo-1-150×150.jpg” alt=”” width=”150″ height=”150″></a>“Epitomized dignity and grace”, said the Obamas Grew up wearing flour-sack clothes Unaware of race, raised in the Bahamas Florida took the bloom off that rose

There was no doubt who the finest actors were Brando, Newman, Redford, Hoffman He became a star of that caliber Despite all that roles where he was no option
<a href=”https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/03/obituaries/estelle-harris-dead.html”>Estelle Harris</a> – 1928
<a href=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/03harris2-jumbo.jpg”><img class=”size-thumbnail wp-image-3167 alignleft” src=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/03harris2-jumbo-150×150.jpg” alt=”” width=”150″ height=”150″></a>“It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t go that cling” Got her start from Handi-Wipe fame Hit her stride in that voice she could bring “George Constanza, you should be ashamed!”
Shrill, embarrassing, comedic gold Utterly fervently frenetic Estelle was surprised how often she was told “My mother! You perfectly get it”!
<a href=”https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/04/arts/television/bob-mcgrath-dead.html”>Bob McGrath</a> – 1932
<a href=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/04obit-mcgrath-jumbo-1.jpg”><img class=”size-thumbnail wp-image-3168 alignleft” src=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/04obit-mcgrath-jumbo-1-150×150.jpg” alt=”” width=”150″ height=”150″></a>Every number and letter bows their head They have lost a hero Words at the wake remain unsaid with a soliloquy by Zero.

<a href=”https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/21/world/asia/thich-nhat-hanh-dead.html”>Thich Nhat Hanh</a> – 1926
<a href=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/merlin_152727294_98bc111f-89e3-41d5-88f9-06a116e8f324-jumbo-1.jpg”><img class=”size-thumbnail wp-image-3169 alignleft” src=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/merlin_152727294_98bc111f-89e3-41d5-88f9-06a116e8f324-jumbo-1-150×150.jpg” alt=”” width=”150″ height=”150″></a>

He knew early on That nothing is everything At once here and gone

<a href=”https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/12/arts/gilbert-gottfried-dead.html”>Gilbert Gottfried</a> – 1955
<a href=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/12gilbert-latenight-superJumbo-1.jpg”><img class=”size-thumbnail wp-image-3170 alignleft” src=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/12gilbert-latenight-superJumbo-1-150×150.jpg” alt=”” width=”150″ height=”150″></a>Strange to see Thich Nhat Hanh and he Being mentioned in the same breath But when we’re gone it seems to me We all become one in death

And so the Buddhist monk drops the mic after riffing on unrequited inspiration And the comic goes all cosmic like With an unguided meditation
<a href=”https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/17/arts/music/dino-danelli-dead.html”>Dino Dinelli</a> – 1944
<a href=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/00DANELLI-2-superJumbo-1.jpg”><img class=”size-thumbnail wp-image-3171 alignleft” src=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/00DANELLI-2-superJumbo-1-150×150.jpg” alt=”” width=”150″ height=”150″></a>“I was feelin’ so bad I asked my family doctor just what I had” After replying “Do you have insurance?” He gave this reassurance

He said “uh huh” (repetitively), And said, “well, duh, it’s chemistry Yes indeed all you need is <a href=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUNJbVFW5Pw”>Good lovin</a>’”
The Rascals had Dino on sticks (when they were Young and not) Steady, precise but with tricks Said to be the best drummer in rock
<a href=”https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/08/arts/music/jim-stewart-dead.html”>Jim Stewart</a> – 1930
<a href=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/00stewart-01-superJumbo-2.jpg”><img class=”size-thumbnail wp-image-3172 alignleft” src=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/00stewart-01-superJumbo-2-150×150.jpg” alt=”” width=”150″ height=”150″></a>“I had scarcely seen a Black person till I was grown” Grew up on a farm in rural West Tennessee Grand Ole Opry the only music he’d ever known Then a Ray Charles “<a href=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uTDa3771HM”>What’d I Say</a>” epiphany
Soul, he got some, and got Stax up and running With “<a href=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8_xSZMTuKo”>Shotgun</a>!”, “<a href=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEaRCAcfOEQ”>Shaft</a>” and “<a href=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fowldx4hRtI”>Hold On, I’m Coming</a>” Racism gives no ground in the status quo of fences Funky sound knocks ‘em down in a studio in Memphis
<a href=”https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/26/movies/ray-liotta-dead.html”>Ray Liotta</a> – 1954
<a href=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/liotta.jpg”><img class=”size-thumbnail wp-image-3217 alignleft” src=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/liotta-150×150.jpg” alt=”” width=”150″ height=”150″></a>Field of Dreams Shoeless Joe Goodfella Iciness with introspection He’s gone it seems but do we know If he’s not in witness protection?

<a href=”https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/ivory-billed-woodpecker-granted-6-month-reprieve-us-extinction-list-2022-07-11/”>The Ivory Billed Woodpecker</a>
<a href=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/3780.jpg”><img class=”size-thumbnail wp-image-3218 alignleft” src=”https://www.denniscaraher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/3780-150×150.jpg” alt=”” width=”150″ height=”150″></a>It was finally time for us to grieve The woodpecker ivory billed But can you believe a reprieve received? It’s double tap rap not stilled

Extinction delayed till next year Though 80 years since a sighting We live in hope the lost are here In early light they are alighting
Oh let us embrace the miraculous Let the sky, our hearts be filled For a moment, bring them back to us Parents, friends, the ivory billed
And let us all take notice No matter what we’ve planned There is no change to our prognosis: our time is near at hand
We are all that we are meant to be At this moment, complete Death is not an enemy But what makes our days so sweet
In 2023, some will lie comfortably in a hearse, carried to night But oh Death do not come for me I’ve yet another verse to write!

(Almost all of these homages are inspired and drawn from the obituary writers of The New York Times. Amazing writers. The photos are also taken from The Times)
Thank you
denny caraher
Ashland, Oregon
dcaraher@gmail.com

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Dennis Caraher

Adieu 2022

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