Cool. You got a phone number that preferred?
Ken
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Ken Wolman http://awfulrowing.wordpress.com/
"All writers are hunters, and parents are the most available prey."
--Francine du Plessix Gray
On Nov 13, 2010, at 6:36 PM, Ken Wolman wrote:
> WEDDING DAY LAMENT
>
> What if our children, overcoming reason,
> take it into their heads to violate sense
> and marry?
>
> They will forget the lessons of their parents' marriage:
> vituperation, anger, the endless revenge that
> works itself out in nothing but money
> even when there isn't any.
>
> i can barely remember her face
> but can recall the faces of those who came
> before and those who came during and after,
>
> But I pay only for her.
>
> Will I have to have the first dance
> with her? Can either of us stand it,
> to touch as though touch were
> some sort of penance,
> of skin-blistering forgiveness
> albeit momentary,
>
> or will it be a stuff-armed
> ritual tango surrounded
> by swirling bridal gowns
> and formals, neither of us
> daring to look at the other
>
> the ultimate human sacrifice,
> the DJ playing "Paint It Black"
> as we slide on grease
> across the floor?
>
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> Ken Wolman http://awfulrowing.wordpress.com/
>
> "All writers are hunters, and parents are the most available prey."
> --Francine du Plessix Gray
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