oh, wonderful sound in this!
On 7/20/05, Ken Wolman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> GALL, HEARTBURN
>
> After 'I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day'
>
> Gall and heartburn.
> Pass on the Gelusil and Prilosec.
> Hopkins must've snuck under
> the Irish Jebbie radar,
> no Freudian shrink to test the aspirant,
> they took instead a certified nutcase
> insomniac, depressive, squeezed gratitude
> glimpsed in only two words at the end: "but worse."
> But Worse? Jesus Christ (whom you adored),
> Gerry, clunky, clunky, is that how
> you taught Greek grammar and translation?
> "Young men, translate as though Homer was not blind
> but stuttered like an Enfield"
> no, not your finest moment,
> no "Christ, come quickly!" or meditation
> on humility itself, Alphonsus Rodriguez
> at the door: but here just "last night
> sucked but it could have been worse,
> I get my morning parole from Hell."
> Not gorgeous but your truest, your truth
> truth torn from soaked sheets.
>
> KTW/7-20-05
>
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> Kenneth Wolman
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