Ah, yes, that does make more sense.
I pictured some unfortunate emerging from a prison, gazing down
mournfully at a tongue held out in his open palm. Extraordinary what
imagination will do to make sense out of a typo.
Dominic
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The town cells are full. Few come back from them.
> Some return piecemeal, their heads smashed open
> or minds in broken health but eyes or tongues
> torn out as punishment for being good.
>
> He who controls us will not understand
> the need we have to honour what is god’s.
> Terror is yet prepared for him, of course;
> but he is innumerate with time, and proud.
>
> He is not a soul to contemplate his death.
> He will name a volunteer first, and send him.
> He thinks that is how it works: an animal!
> I lived yesterday. I shall live today.
> I shall always live. He learns no history.
> Pity us who read books: we die each day.
>
>
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> Lawrence Upton
> Visiting Fellow, Music Dept,
> Goldsmiths, University of London
> New Cross, London SE14 6NW
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Shall we be pure or impure? Today
we shall be very pure. It must always
be possible to contain
impurities in a pure way.
--Tarmo Uustalu and Varmo Vene
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