Love the 'falling off' of those final lines, Barry. A good catch.
Doug
On 8-Apr-09, at 12:23 PM, Barry Alpert wrote:
> OF TIME & the CITY
>
> via Terence Davies
>
> “We had hoped for Paradise.
> We got the Anus Mundi.”
>
>
> Obligation despite my dogged piety. No revelation came.
> Football like life was
>
> too rich or too poor for my rapacious appetite.
> I said goodbye to
> my whole world--home, school, movies, God.
> Earth does not revolve.
>
> Chilblains with Christmas in the air.
> In all those movies it was always perfect.
> Time renders to seek
> youth that cannot end hope that . . .
>
>
> Barry Alpert / Silver Spring MD US / 4-8-09 (1:56 PM)
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