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Paul Simon's rocked my world for many years -- lots of fav tunes and I love that he's so diverse: between shake-yer-booty joyous and lump-in-the-throat sorrow/regret/pain. An example of the latter is from Slip Sliding Away:

"And I know a father who had a son

He longed to tell him all the reasons for the things he’d done

He came a long way just to explain

He kissed his boy as he lay sleeping

Then he turned around and he headed home again"

Can barely sing along--somehow that image just gets me. I think it's his talent for painting images -- that wordsmith ability I dig so much. I've often used "I am a Rock" and "Sounds of Silence", among others, in my poetry units at school.

it's definitely time today for some Paul Simon!

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