I feel i ought to say something - as it is Boxing Day already.
I suppose the something i want to say is that poetry etc now feels
manageable. When I first joined there was too much. Now - although i may not
always respond - i don't feel overwhelmed
but i do miss arne
is kasper - in the cellar - our new arne?
ciao - jen
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From: Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
poetics <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Re: "Season"
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 09:56:37 -0700
Well, hey, I don't go quite that far, but I do understand the feeling. Too
busy with extended family & parties to quite worry about films etc.
I do like to choose my own music, however....
& enjoyed Frederick's poem, as usual, for its sharpness....
Doug
On 21-Dec-06, at 10:18 PM, andrew burke wrote:
>You said it, Fred. My thoughts exactly :-)
>
>Andrew
>
>
>On 22/12/06, Frederick Pollack <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>Season
>>
>>
>>All right we won't go out.
>>The new films aren't great.
>>And if they are, the reviews
>>that say they are are somehow
>>dispiriting. – Not worth the traffic,
>>the parking, the crowds
>>both of the living
>>and those who mewl at the edge of being,
>>wanting to get at us, to get us.
>>
>>We don't have to go out.
>>There's stuff in the freezer.
>>We'll read, make a fire,
>>put on music. It shouldn't
>>have to be said that I love you. Saying
>>"you" halfway through a poem,
>>as mainstream poets do, is like mentioning
>>poetry in a poem – a way of hiding
>>from an ungreat culture,
>>
>>feeling superior, which it hates
>>as much as being superior …
>>I hate this time of year.
>>Their music is the same
>>five imbecile tunes. They scourge
>>their god on film until
>>you'd think they'd admit
>>it is the whip they yearn for,
>>and a chance to hunt and kill.
>>
>>Sunset in an hour.
>>We'll stand by the window, hug
>>and watch it. I may quote
>>La Rochefoucauld, who said
>>that people fall in love
>>only because they hear people talk about it;
>>then immediately think
>>that doesn't apply to loneliness, which
>>predated speech and will outlast it.
>>
>>
>
>
>--
>Andrew
>http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
>http://www.bam.com.au/andrew
>
>
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