From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1586">timepassesbye</a><BR>
Date: 21 January 2005<P>

please can someone tell me the name of the poet who wrote and performed this on audio in the late 1980's? <BR>
I also do not Know the name of the poem?<BR>
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anyway here it is<BR>
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The one arm man walks into the flower shop<BR>
he ask, "what flower represents love and time gone by"<BR>
and the florist said "white lily"
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=9">Madison</a><BR>
Date: 21 January 2005<P>

"White Lily"<BR>
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What Fassbinder film is it?<BR>
A one armed man comes into a flower shop and says<BR>
"What flower expresses days go by<BR>
and they just keep going by<BR>
Endlessly pulling you into the future?<BR>
Days go by endlessly—<BR>
endlessly pulling you into the future?"<BR>
And the florist says, "White Lily."<BR>
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~ Laurie Anderson, 1986<BR>
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<a href="http://www.artandbuddhism.org/papers/wp8_LA.html">http://www.artandbuddhism.org/papers/wp8_LA.html</a><BR>
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also, find an explanation here:<BR>
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<a href="http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~jimmyd/laurie-anderson/interpretation/lyrics/hotb.html">http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~jimmyd/laurie-anderson/interpretation/lyrics/hotb.html</a><BR>

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