I ought to add, perhaps, I was pretty sure they
weren't referring to me.
Hal
"How beautiful it is to do nothing,
and then rest afterward."
--Spanish proverb
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On Jul 27, 2008, at 12:50 PM, Kenneth Wolman wrote:
> Halvard Johnson wrote:
>> Reminds me of the time in Fell's Point in Baltimore I was walking
>> along S.
>> B'way toward the harbor and was passed by two guys
>> going the other way, one of whom said, in an astonished tone,
>> to the other, "Him? Who'd want to kill him?"
>>
>> Hal
>>
>
> Yeah, but.
>
>
> MUGGER
>
> In the April paradise of 1956,
> in the Bronx Botanical Gardens,
> there an older boy held a fishknife
> to my throat, wrested the camera
> I carried and the jacket I wore,
> and left me quivering, brought to ground.
>
> Now, on those nights
> when all life's mischances
> weave themselves into the fleshy brocade
> of a drape that darkens and smothers,
> heats and dresses the heart
> in a curtain of sweltering memories,
> it is then that my tormentor looms
> before me, looms but does not float,
> plants himself like a termite
> in the foundations of my house:
>
> and he is solid,
> reeking like the earth and leaves
> that filled my mouth and nostrils
> that day so long ago,
> and he plies his recollected trade with
> the passionless tenacity of the termite,
> chewing through my crumbling foundations.
>
> KTW/6-29-95
>
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> Ken Wolman http://bestiaire.typepad.com http://www.petsit.com/content317832.html
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> "I have been watching you; you were there, unconcerned perhaps, but
> with a strange distraught air of someone forever expecting a great
> misfortune, in sunlight, in a beautiful garden."--Maurice
> Maeterlinck, Pelleas et Melisande
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