I also wrote this one for him. (Ned Stone = Philip van Ouse.)
Yesterday we wept
Tomorrow we will fight
But let there be no tears,
No anger on this night
And even if tomorrow is
The day the world ends
Tonight there is still time enough
To celebrate our friends
Though I am not a believer
And barely an agnostic
I do believe in this union
Of Van Ouse & Tomasic
Tonight there is no room
For the fear we all have carried
Tonight there’s only room for joy
For our friends who’re getting married
Don’t rise up from the table
Don’t turn away the cup
Tonight all sorrow’s chased with joy
Tonight we’ll drink it up
Though I am not a believer
And barely an agnostic
I do believe in this union
Of Van Ouse & Tomasic
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I like them both, poems that is. Where will/did the hitching occur? Were you there? Provide musical accompaniment?
August 7 in Pittsburgh. I'll be there and some version of the Mad Maggies will be playing (like a greatest hits band at the county fair.)
Ah, Pittsburgh. I spent a couple of summers there once as a youth, before the steel mills shut down. Can never forget the bleary orange haze of the summer sky.
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