This is a remarkable poem, especially the ending, with
its sad and surprising repetitions. (Are you sending
out your poems for publication, Joe? They seem ready
to go, beginning with this one and "Tall Hair.")
Candice
--- joe green <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Sonnet: The Sense of an Ending
>
> In Faerie Tales if the ant king says to kill your
> horse
> Then you better do it especially if you want the
> girl and the gold
> And all the coupons. Standing by the waterfall
> you think
> That everything has changed and you are not sure
> why
>
> And then the Czar comes riding along and next
> thing you know
> You are at the ball with your ratskin gloves and
> your sneer
> And the chance to die defeating Napoleon and a
> sleigh
> Will whiz you away that night and you dance -- the
> moon, the Neva then
>
> The great train to Moscow, and then who should
> leap
> Beneath the train? Anna! Anna! And you say
> something in French
> And the train moves on as do the stars whirling
> So that -- at the end -- you end up in Paris
>
> And, on the boulevard you walk you walk
> And, one night, pass the young Baudelaire. Tip
> your hat. You are dying, dying.
>
>
>
>
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