You said it, Fred. My thoughts exactly :-)
Andrew
On 22/12/06, Frederick Pollack <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Season
>
>
> All right we won't go out.
> The new films aren't great.
> And if they are, the reviews
> that say they are are somehow
> dispiriting. – Not worth the traffic,
> the parking, the crowds
> both of the living
> and those who mewl at the edge of being,
> wanting to get at us, to get us.
>
> We don't have to go out.
> There's stuff in the freezer.
> We'll read, make a fire,
> put on music. It shouldn't
> have to be said that I love you. Saying
> "you" halfway through a poem,
> as mainstream poets do, is like mentioning
> poetry in a poem – a way of hiding
> from an ungreat culture,
>
> feeling superior, which it hates
> as much as being superior …
> I hate this time of year.
> Their music is the same
> five imbecile tunes. They scourge
> their god on film until
> you'd think they'd admit
> it is the whip they yearn for,
> and a chance to hunt and kill.
>
> Sunset in an hour.
> We'll stand by the window, hug
> and watch it. I may quote
> La Rochefoucauld, who said
> that people fall in love
> only because they hear people talk about it;
> then immediately think
> that doesn't apply to loneliness, which
> predated speech and will outlast it.
>
>
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Andrew
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http://www.bam.com.au/andrew
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