<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459593" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A tribute to Philip Levine. For Hanque</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tenderness. It was forty-seven years ago<br>and Bernie Strempek and I were in this bar<br>in downtown Detroit watching this<br>beautiful second-rate jazz singer<br>and Bernie started to talk<br>about tenderness.<br>His father had abandoned this family of four<br>and so his mother worked nights<br>at Ford Rouge and she knew <br>Bernie wanted to become a poet <br>and she totally supported that. <br>Bernie was a guy of amazing smarts<br>who seemed almost too gentle<br>and delicate for this world<br>in which he did not long remain.<br>I didn’t know the word tenderness<br>but when Bernie talked of it<br>I thought wow, I could use some of that.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">*</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[From his conversations]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459593" data-title="A tribute to Philip Levine. For Hanque de Michael Shepherd" data-description="Tenderness. It was forty-seven years ago and Bernie Strempek and I were in this bar in downtown Detroit watching this beautiful second-rate jazz singer and Bernie started to talk about tenderness. His father had abandoned this family of four and s..."></div> </div> </div>

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