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On 30/08/2007, joe green <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Feodora Doestoyevski
>
> Feodora Doestoyevski
> Bogarts it along the Nevskii
> Following that last directive
> He's become a great detective
> Looking for the Lost Lenore:
> Out among the kitsch and noir
> Only this and nothing more.
>
> Feodora takes a breathski!
> All those ghosts upon the Nevskii…
> She's not where you've been before.
> Only this and nothing more.
> His loneliness increases ever
> Pulls down his hat says "Never, never."
> Looking for the Lost Lenore
> Out among the kitsch and noir.
>
> Feodora to the Neva
> Where he thinks it's very clever
> Finding Gogol's Overcoat
> Knowing it won't float that boat.
> "I stood before a firing squad
> Shut my eyes and there was God
> Leaning from the heavenly bar
> And he looked quite like the Czar."
>
> So, to the coat
> "You know, of course, man
> I was expecting the Bronze Horseman.
> Old deceiver. Old Believer.
> I require another star.
> To take me from the kitsch and noir."
>
> Saying this – a midnight clear!
> Then waiting at a station drear
> Waiting for the Midnight Train.
> Fog and rain and Polish plain.
> Waiting for his Lost Lenore.
> No-where he has been before.
>
> Feodora Doestoyevski
> Bogarts it along the Nevskii
> Following that last directive
> He's become a great detective
> Looking for the Lost Lenore:
> Out among the kitsch and noir.
>
>
> Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Johnny Fedora met
> Alice Bluebonnet
> in the window of a
> department store...
>
> On 30/8/07 2:22 PM, "MC Ward" wrote:
>
> > I like it too, Hal, particularly the way it recalls a
> > childhood cartoon called The Green Fedora:
> >
> > Oh I'm wearing my green fedora
> > Not for Mary but for Dora
> > For Dora is the one I love....
> >
> > (Not too sure about that "Mary")
> >
> > Candice
> >
> >
> >
> > --- andrew burke wrote:
> >
> >> Wel, Hal, I like it - particularly the last couplet
> >> and that bit about war -
> >> _And the war strays over yet another
> >> border on its way to wherever it's going. _ A
> >> sustained tonal pitch that
> >> goes from playful to satirical.
> >>
> >> Thanks for it ...
> >>
> >> Andrew
> >>
> >>
> >> On 29/08/2007, Halvard Johnson
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Sonnet: "Your Eyes Stray"
> >>>
> >>> Your eyes stray over to the verso side of the book
> >>> where you learn that short-term prospects are not
> >>> indeed good. The hero wanders into a labyrinth
> >>> of desire that would have daunted Casanova, or at
> >>>
> >>> least given him pause. The grass is always greener
> >>> on the other side of the street, as it's said.
> >> Mellow
> >>> as ever, the summer wends its way autumn-ward,
> >>> one fedora almost as good as another at covering
> >>>
> >>> that bald spot. And the war strays over yet
> >> another
> >>> border on its way to wherever it's going.
> >> Insurgents
> >>> mount incessant attacks, no matter how much we do
> >>> to assuage them. No, sir, the pastorale is not
> >> dead.
> >>>
> >>> Willows trail their branches in blood-red streams.
> >>> The sheep on the hill wear their furs inside-out.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Hal
> >>>
> >>> Halvard Johnson
> >>> ================
> >>> [log in to unmask]
> >>> http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/index.html
> >>> http://entropyandme.blogspot.com
> >>> http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com
> >>> http://www.hamiltonstone.org
> >>>
> >>
> > http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/vidalocabooks.html
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Andrew
> >> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> >> http://www.inblogs.net/hispirits
> >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/aburke/
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
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