Broken Flowers

Bill Murray plays an aging lothario named Don who, upon receiving an anonymous pink letter informing him that he is the father of a nineteen year old son, sets off in search of his own immortality. He visits four former girlfriends and scrutinizes their current “pinkness” trying to identify the mother of his son. Each woman is presented as a broken flower whose personality has been shaped by the men she took up with after Don.

A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM

JANUARY 19TH: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, EDGAR ALLAN POE( 1/19/1809- 10/7/1849)

A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow --
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand --
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep -- while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?