What Andrew said, Ken.
And no bedbugs!
Doug
On 2012-12-31, at 7:44 PM, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Reminds me of that song, Bring in the Clowns! ...
>
> Hey, but that is a good poem I'd chuck the line 'or tried' out, it
> kinda interrupts and muddies the waters. (No pun intended.)
>
> May you have many more poems in 2013 - and publication, should you wish it.
>
> Happy New Year to all.
>
> Andrew
>
> On 1 January 2013 11:22, Kenneth Wolman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> TASHLICH
>>
>> (Tashlich is the ceremony performed on the first day
>> of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, when bread
>> is cast into a stream or river to signify the
>> casting-off of the errors of the dying year.)
>>
>> Tie them in a sack,
>> with knots as tight as the knots in your stomach:
>> tie the knots double,
>> lest what's inside is the Houdini
>> of your private demon-closet,
>> and may escape.
>> Weight them with stones,
>> carry them to the shores
>> of some convenient stream of living waters.
>> Cast them as far as you can
>> (pray for them if it pleases you):
>> but let them drown.
>>
>> I'm sorry if you're squeamish,
>> and yes, killing is a sin,
>> but it's a war, after all:
>> and if you get queasy at the thought
>> of what's in the bag squirming,
>> choking for air,
>> think what they would do to you
>> if they got loose,
>> what they maybe did to you already,
>> or tried.
>> Consider it a mercy-killing,
>> consider yourself prepaid
>> on the Five Stages of Grief,
>> and this casting-off a celebration.
>>
>> Let the minstrels come in.
>
>
>
> --
> Andrew
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>
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