Stay bad, Ken…
Doug
On Sep 3, 2014, at 4:48 AM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Cheers Ken
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Kenneth Wolman
> Sent: 03 September 2014 10:54
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: I REFUSE (was Re: pat snaps 642)
>
> Thought-provocative!
>
> BORROWED
>
> Every day I get the endless mail
> the AARP postcard people
> silver hair and stiffened dicks
> RENEW RENEW ENJOY ENJOY JOY OF JOY
> knowing that L'Etat c'est moi,
> but the body is my doctor's.
>
> Who ordered the mail to come to me
> I know what the calendar says
> I'm supposed to be 70
> but I'm not even fifty yet so
> why do they dress me in borrowed robes
> why do I drop Shakespearean quotes
> when I could come out from behind
> the curtain drooping like my own flab
> and scream like Ivan Ilyich.
>
> Ken, Pat's natural son
>
Douglas Barbour
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Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2 (UofAPress).
Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
that we are only
as we find out we are
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