Vulcans Forever!
Leonard Nimoy (1931-2015)
NIMOY'S LAST FRONTIER
—B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MA
The years drift by us
your dad gave me a haircut
in Boston after school
you were in the barber shop
in laughter,
drinking a tonic
without a tad of care
obeying the golden rule
not without a sonic flair
as you were a good boy
soon to be a Star Trek Nimoy,
obeying every traffic stop
in the neighborhood
soon we would be
into sci-fi, stand-up comedy
sitting down on stage
reading pages of Tom Mix
comics and poetry,
once going to Hollywood
on the same plane
when it was snowing
sharing our out-of-sight love
of Poe, Emily Dickinson
Whitman, even Baudelaire,
now you at the height
of the last frontier.
The years drift by us
your dad gave me a haircut
in Boston after school
you were in the barber shop
in laughter,
drinking a tonic
without a tad of care
obeying the golden rule
not without a sonic flair
as you were a good boy
soon to be a Star Trek Nimoy,
obeying every traffic stop
in the neighborhood
soon we would be
into sci-fi, stand-up comedy
sitting down on stage
reading pages of Tom Mix
comics and poetry,
once going to Hollywood
on the same plane
when it was snowing
sharing our out-of-sight love
of Poe, Emily Dickinson
Whitman, even Baudelaire,
now you at the height
of the last frontier.
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Boston was a great city to grow up in, and it probably still is. We were surrounded by two very important elements: academia and the arts. I was surrounded by theater, music, dance, museums. And I learned how to sail on the Charles River. So I had a great childhood in Boston. It was wonderful.
Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.
I think it's my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where they may.
—Leonard Nimoy
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—Medusa, with thanks to B.Z. Niditch for today's tribute to Leonard Nimoy. For more about Nimoy's poetry, see www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/27/leonard-nimoy-final-tweet_n_6770100.html; for more about his life and career, see www.imdb.com/name/nm0000559 or www.newsweek.com/ten-memorable-leonard-nimoy-onscreen-appearances-310373
