Ahhh . . .
Hal
"The secret of managing is to keep the guys
who hate you away from the guys who are
undecided."
--Casey Stengel
Halvard Johnson
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On Oct 16, 2007, at 10:14 AM, kasper salonen wrote:
> supergood, this is scenic (creates a scene, I mean) &
> imagistic/thoughtful in just the right proportions. I read it without
> taking the 'sonnet' into account in any way.
>
> KS
>
> On 15/10/2007, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Sonnet: Far Afield
>>
>> "Blast Ameriky, I say. . . . I tell ye, ye wouldn't have been to
>> sea
>> here, leadin' this dog's life, if you hadn't been snivelized."
>> --Larry, a seaman in Melville's Redburn
>>
>> and yet near at hand, our wanderings took us away
>> to a far field, unexamined, as yet, by brain sturgeons
>> or heart transports. My own views, if I may speak
>> rancidly, never quite jellied on that point. How does
>>
>> one spell "spellcheck," for example? And why doth
>> Ragnar Kjartansson sing for days on end in an empty
>> lot in Chelsea? I mean, what's in it for him? Or for us?
>> Gudrid, I know, made many trips to what wasn't yet
>>
>> Ameriky without benefit of clergy, indoor plumbing,
>> or radiocarbon dating. As older adults now struggle
>> for each breath, online answers to their questions easily
>> can be found. Too late, some say, but, hey, every dog
>>
>> has his daisy to push up once he's dead. And that goes
>> for females too, whatever we rudely called them once.
>>
>>
>> Hal
>>
>> Halvard Johnson
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