You're a hard act to follow, Mr. Frostbite--Candice
--- TheOldMole <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From the current Harper's, this list of ideas from
> Frost's notebooks.
>
> Story of the cigar box and the
> counter-revolutionary.
>
> Story of the unhappy child at the amateur
>
> theatricals.
>
>
>
> Story of not being chosen by the eagle for Jove's
> cup bearer.
>
>
>
> Story of Darwinian suicides and Marxian
>
> murderers.
>
>
>
> Story of the very poor man on fifteen a week
>
> for forty years.
>
>
>
> Story of the very rich man in the Pullman car.
>
>
>
> Story of the man who wouldn't let himself be
>
> lost by one fatal mistake. Blood poison,
>
> tetanus, syphilis.
>
>
>
> Story of the equalitarian who thought it would be
> all right to use your literary reputation to get the
> better of an officious official.
>
>
>
> Story of the campaign speech in favor of slavery.
>
>
>
> Story of planned economy on Easter Island where the
> population was limited to nine hundred by killing
> either the newborn at one end or an old person at
> the other.
>
>
>
> Story of the one-armed teacher who became first
> citizen of Glastonbury.
>
>
>
> Story of the encounter with the man who thought too
> well of humanity to despair of its becoming Utopian.
> Not just our faults, but our virtues stand in the
> way of the perfect state.
>
>
>
> Story of Tristan da Cunha and the Circumnavigators.
>
>
>
> Story of Joseph Albany's singing daughter.
>
>
>
> Story of the hard drinker's disbelief in
> disinterestedness.
>
>
>
> Story of the man who originated the slogan, No
> rivers to the sea.
>
>
>
> And, since Frost is no longer around to turn these
> ideas into verse, it seems to me that it falls to us
> to help him out. So I propose that we each take a
> turn in writing up one of these in the style of
> Robert Frost. I'll get the ball rolling.
>
>
>
> STORY OF THE CIGAR BOX AND THE
> COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY.
>
>
>
> I'd just come from the field, pulled off my boots,
>
> And settled in before the fire, when
>
> Discovering I was fresh out of cheroots,
>
> I told myself, "I must go out again."
>
>
>
> An empty box at the tobacconist's:
>
> El Rey Havanas, with a list of contacts
>
> Whom I suspected might be Communists
>
> From north of Boston to the Adirondacks.
>
>
>
> Well, truth be told, I'd contacts of my own,
>
> Dick Nixon, Parnell Thomas, Martin Dies;
>
> I rang up Central on the telephone,
>
> Gave her a number: 'twas the FBI's.
>
>
>
> Here in New England, we can't be too wary:
>
> Poets are counterrevolutionary.
>
>
>
> Tad Richards
> www.opus40.org
> http://opusforty.blogspot.com/
>
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