Very elegant.
On 10 February 2010 08:26, ROBIN HAMILTON <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> There's a World of Our Own
>
> (from: The Anarcho-Syndicalist Handbook for Young Gentlemen
> and Ladies of An Uncertain Age.)
>
> What's the point
> the Youngster asked
> of all those stories about lost continents --
> Atlantis, Ultima Thule, Hye Brazil?
>
> Well, said the Grandfather
> puffing his pipe in the usual fashion
> It's all to do with
> nostalgie de la boue
>
> Our first homesickness
> is for the sea
> so we sit on the beach and
> stare longingly
> into the waves lapping and tempting,
> amniotic ocean our cells came from
>
> While the second nostalgia is
> for the past, when
> all was clear and simple
> and we were young in the world
>
> ... the third nostalgia
> is nostalgia for elsewhere
> So we stare into the
> liminal marriage of earth and sky
> crack in space we'd fall into
>
> And the last nostalgia
> is for what might have been,
> when the grandfather
> sits with children
> and tells them how
> life would be, if
>
>
> ROBIN HAMILTON
> 10.02.10
>
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