I'd end it with the wonderful, Frank O'Hara style of
that first stanza--Candice
--- meikamonagmail <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I'd end it after tears.
>
> On 29/03/2007, at 9:07, andrew burke wrote:
>
> > I had breakfast with
> > Wallace Stevens
> > and he said, Would you
> > please pass the pineapple?
> > I put down my coffee cup
> > and said, Come on,
> > you can do better than that.
> >
> > It's years past
> > the time for tears.
> >
> > I met a wiseman for lunch
> > who showed me
> > the nude sentence.
> > He said, The upshot of it
> > is, the conflab
> > is in the context.
> >
> > It's years past
> > the time for tears.
> >
> > The barber said,
> > Well, Walter says,
> > No poem is intended
> > for the reader, no picture
> > for the beholder, no
> > symphony for the listener.
> >
> > It's years past
> > the time for tears.
> >
> > Dinner for one, please, James -
> > Madam will not be dining.
> > Please, don't bring the wine in -
> > poetry plays such
> > funny games.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Andrew
> > http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> > http://www.inblogs.net/hispirits
> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/aburke/
>
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