Charles Slater
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Charles Slater
Charles Slater 1932-2022
Ian SlaterNovember 19, 2022 Comments
In the Eighties I Took Eight High School Kids to New York to See a Production of Les Miserables

Dear Lord, I was blownaway. Though I had been in theatre for decades, and was teaching it, and directing

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Sue Could Be a Lion Tamer
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Working

Working productively isits own reward. Boring paint- ing allows thinking of more import- ant things than the completed job,

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Jack's Orange Jacket

I don’t really knowwhy he gave it to me all those years ago, but I’m guessing Laura didn’t

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Asleep with my eyes open

There is time to thinkof the moment only if I have consciousness; I do mean, mind you, the act of being un-asleep.

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Billboard, MeditationsCharles SlaterNovember 16, 2012consciousness, daydreaming, productivityComment
Sprung From The Old Song

There we were dancingupstairs by the window wall Nicole and Casie and I, maybe when they were four and five, maybe to Dylan’s Hey Mr. Tambourine Man.

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FamilyCharles SlaterSeptember 15, 2012Bob Dylan, children, dancing, family, family gathering, hope, musicComment
The Bull's Out!

I was a naïve twelveor so when Harry Randall’s folks gave me a job at their little dairy in western most El Segundo.

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PlacesCharles SlaterAugust 28, 2012bull, bull pen, dairy farm, el segundo dairy, randall dairy el segundoComment
Memories Born of Music

More than fortyyears has slipped away from the sounds long de- parted as I drove aimlessly home.

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FamilyCharles SlaterMarch 16, 2012driving, Neil Diamond, sadnessComment
Irony

A hawk, inall its glory, perches only a few feet from where I sit, a hawk, mind you, those

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Places, Little PoemsCharles SlaterFebruary 5, 2012bird, buildings, city, hawk, nature, street, urbanComment
A Dream of Jack
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Breakfast in the Past

The sixty-one high school kidsjogged past me as I ate my sausage McMuffin and egg on the running

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EducationCharles SlaterAugust 24, 2010food, memory, Sausage McMuffin, students, teaching Comment
Dreams of My Childhood

Perhaps it wasthe old Sand Dunes Tavern, the uniqueness of living in so unconventional

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Family, TimeCharles SlaterJanuary 20, 2010Bert, brotherhood, dreams, Jack, MGTD, Sand Dunes TavernComment
You Like Christmas Songs; You Sing Them All Year Long

Sue told me.I laughed and said I’d write a poem about the idea.

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Billboard, Family, Time, Little PoemsCharles SlaterNovember 8, 2009Christmas, Christmas songs, holidays, memory, Santa Claus, singing, theatre, xmasComment
The Universal Cellphone Bulge

Helping Casie audition forher fall play, students paraded before us down stage cen-

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EducationCharles SlaterSeptember 29, 2009auditions, Casie, cellphones, plays, teenagers, THS, Torrance High SchoolComment
Lost Phone

Oh no!The damn thing is gone and my life is suddenly isolated.

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Little PoemsCharles SlaterFebruary 9, 2009cellphonesComment
Eugene O'Neill Looms Large

The broadcast biography of himlast night bringing back his tortured productive genius, including the idea he might have been a little in love with

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Billboard, TheatreCharles SlaterAugust 8, 2007biography, drama, Eugene O'Neill, Lion In Winter, playwritingComment
A Dead Day
Charles SlaterMarch 30, 2006Comment
The Talking Wooden Frog

I drag the pestle across the wooden toad’sarched ridge so it may croak. When I first heard the sound, the realization that who- ever carved the little dude, hollowed out its

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Meditations, Little PoemsCharles SlaterFebruary 15, 2006toad, wood carvingComment
Children

Today at The Aquarium of the Pacific I saw achild’s face with the look of perceptive age, of worry beyond her years as if she understood war, and life expectancy, and defeat.

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FamilyCharles SlaterJanuary 24, 2006age, Aquarium of the Pacific, children, Fiat, SueComment
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