Andrew, a most welcome piece, indeed. The ending rings very true.
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:12 PM, andrew burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Some days
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> I measure things out,
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> more Mondrian than Pollock.
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> If I let my line out, say,
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> for a walk with Paul Klee, I do it
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> with a ruler and eraser
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> at the ready.
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> Other days I say, **
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> *Fuck that! *and throw words around
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> more Pollock than Mondrian.
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> Looking back
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> over my shoulder, I see
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> metaphors of fishing and knitting
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> rise up, reef rocks between
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> lounge rooms of doilies,
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> and running away from them all,
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> organic, natural as breath,
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> an umbilical line
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> heading straight for
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> my mother.
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