I like this, too, Sheila. The minuteness of the attention borders on a disease itself - the old adage not to doctor oneself at risk of being carried away as a fool. The reason no doubt for the last line's search for an outside examiner- no one needs a 'Strep Flute"!
Course it's not about illness, but writers or singers-block.
How many of us think we would never be loved again if we, as poets, became mute?
Or, conversely, never tell tell but a few people that we write, poems in particular?
Or, don't tell people we write poems because it might turn their kindness into suspicion?
Just thinking, or thoughts brought on my the poem
Stephen V
--- On Thu, 1/22/09, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Would You Hate Me If I Showed You How Human I Am?
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Thursday, January 22, 2009, 10:29 AM
Ah, to turn that into a delight, Sheila, for others reading, at least. If
you're going to write a prose poem, this is the way to do it, not
Alexander's....
Nothing 'bureaucratic' here....
Doug
On 21-Jan-09, at 11:03 AM, Sheila Murphy wrote:
> That cough suppressant never seems sufficient. I still hack. The voice,
once
> honeyed, now finds a companion in dry air. I fancy singing alongside
complex
> dance. Such scansion leaves me little heart to go on, as a part of me not
> water is still breath.
>
> Do you know a synonym for shallow that would peek at depth?
>
> The silence I retort is blinding and resides near deafness. Triumvirate
> conditioning requires a #2 pencil, not HB.
>
> Once I saw a silhouette and I decided not to be the filler narcissist.
What
> happened to quotation marks around that statement?
>
> Bloodlines lead the mind, while blond indifference needs low lights.
>
> Semaphore, turned a little to the left again.
>
> The incinerator used to work, and now it's lodged in the Smithsonian.
>
> What does celebration mean?
>
> Amid all this consternation and huggable opportunity, one reality remains:
>
> I need to have my flute examined.
>
>
>
> sheila e. murphy
>
Douglas Barbour
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Oh, goddamnit, we forgot the silent prayer.
Dwight D, Eisenhower
[at a cabinet meeting]
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