KEEP ME IN YOUR HEART

Warren Zevon, when he knew he was dying from terminal lung cancer, was asked by his great friend and fan, David Letterman, if there was anything that he understood now, facing his own mortality, that he didn't know before. Warren replied, "Just how much you're supposed to enjoy every sandwich."  I try to enjoy every sandwich in my life.

Enjoy Every Sandwich is the title of a a tribute album by many famous musicians (Dylan, Springsteen, Don Henley, Jackson Browne, and Bonnie Raitt, among others) released after Warren's death; it includes two unreleased Zevon songs: The Wind, sung by Billy Bob Thornton, and Studebaker, sung by Warren's son, Jordan Zevon. Werewolves Of London, sung by Adam Sandler, was, for some reason, especially touching to me.

My favorite song by Warren is Keep Me In Your Heart. It reminds me of the poem by e e cummings i carry your heart with me, which was part of my wedding ceremony:

i carry your heart with me by e e cummings

i carry your heart with me (i carry it in

my heart) i am never without it (anywhere
i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)
i fear
no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want
no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)