Neal Whitman

by Neal WhitmanPacific Grove, CA, USA In a poem the Soviets pre-dated 1916Akhmatova wrote no one would wantto listen to songs now thatthe bitter days foretold had arrived.Fifty years later in 1966 Frank Sinatra quippedthat the world would be a dreary placewithout a song. He mused thatit gives you something to think about.Actually, the Russian poet penned her poemin 1917 after the Bolshevik revolution.That gives you something to think about, yes?