Given what you say, Larissa, set as prose(poem)?
It sounds a speech; so works for me that way.
I like the concept of a 'magpie translation,' even though I'm not sure
what you mean by it....
Doug
On 8-Jul-08, at 10:20 PM, Larissa Shmailo wrote:
>
> Rather a word than the horizon’s glance, you'll wait for it,
> judging the
> sea.
> This last chance of living now deceases, deep creases your brow, so
> long now
>
> you’ve looked to the end. Trapped by activity, you will die doing
> tasks,
> going
> it, poor baby, alone. The sea, you realize, shall live, and that,
> soon, not
> much.
> Quick, find a surgeon, eat a sturgeon, stave, stave, stave it off!
> The
> stakes
> (after all!) the stakes are so high! But I assure you: you won’t be
> there.
> You’ll
> feel, as you go, the ebbing, the loosening, the downward slip, is
> all. Death
> is
> a word we have no definition for, you’ll fall, swallowed alive,
> you’ll
> fall.
>
>
> Cheery-bye!
> Larissa
>
> Larissa Shmailo (http://myspace.com/larissaworld)
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