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Wed Mar-04-09 07:24 AM
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The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Wed 3/4/2009) |
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Tear it Down
We find out the heart only by dismantling what the heart knows. By redefining the morning, we find a morning that comes just after darkness. We can break through marriage into marriage. By insisting on love, we spoil it, get beyond affection and wade mouth-deep into love. We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars. But going back toward childhood will not help. The village is not better than Pittsburgh. Only Pittsburgh is more than Pittsburgh. Rome is better than Rome in the same way the sound of raccoon tongues licking the inside walls of the garbage tub is more then the stir of them in the muck of the garbage. Love is not enough. We die and are put in the earth forever. We should insist while there is still time. We must eat through the wildness of her sweet body already in our bed to reach the body within that body. Jack Gilbert *****************
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Wed Mar-04-09 08:01 AM
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Wed Mar-04-09 05:50 PM
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Wed Mar-04-09 08:31 AM
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"Rome is better than Rome in the same way the sound of raccoon tongues licking the inside walls of the garbage tub is more then the stir of them in the muck of the garbage."
That is the shit.
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Wed Mar-04-09 05:50 PM
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Pretty amazing shit, too...
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Wed Mar-04-09 09:58 AM
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this one cracked me up :rofl:
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Wed Mar-04-09 05:51 PM
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Wed Mar-04-09 03:42 PM
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Now, this is beautiful...
The last bit, especially:
Love is not enough. We die and are put in the earth forever. We should insist while there is still time. We must eat through the wildness of her sweet body already in our bed to reach the body within that body.
I'm loving this one!
Thank you...
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