> So should I find this better than what I usually do,
Maybe...
> because it meets
> with the approval of the more 'modern' folks?
...but not for that reason!
It's not easy, and perhaps not worthwhile,
to compare one poem with another and say which is 'better'.
I liked it, anyway.
Janet
> Oranges
>
> When one wakes in the night
> despite sleeping pills, white
> noise machines, orthopedic
> pillows, and thinks of oranges
>
> -- such sweetness -- there it is,
> that orange, floating brilliantly
> in this dim room -- and all
> the things one must make sense
>
> of -- Nehru jackets, bouffant
> hairdos, threatening french
> nails -- your attachment to top-
> less bars, those artificial orbs,
>
> that tooty fruity booze -- all
> this demanding explication
> in the swoony night with its
> train whistles and sock-it-to-me
>
> buzz, love, American style, the ed-
> ification of this planet's turn to
> darkness, the rebellious suicide
> of the sun, the sweetness of
>
> oranges -- where is Lawrence
> of Arabia when you need him
> to peel this open, to hand you,
> one-by-one, these white-veined
>
> crescents, dripping with light?
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