only the time for laughs now, Andrew? Hmmnn. But I enjoyed it, the
dreams...?
Michael Ondaatje has also brought WS into a poem, where he dreamed
violence while writing so purely... (or so I remembered till I went to
look it up: no, he simply wrote so purely).
Doug
On 28-Mar-07, at 5:07 PM, andrew burke wrote:
> I had breakfast with
> Wallace Stevens
> and he said, Would you
> please pass the pineapple?
> I put down my coffee cup
> and said, Come on,
> you can do better than that.
>
> It's years past
> the time for tears.
>
> I met a wiseman for lunch
> who showed me
> the nude sentence.
> He said, The upshot of it
> is, the conflab
> is in the context.
>
> It's years past
> the time for tears.
>
> The barber said,
> Well, Walter says,
> No poem is intended
> for the reader, no picture
> for the beholder, no
> symphony for the listener.
>
> It's years past
> the time for tears.
>
> Dinner for one, please, James -
> Madam will not be dining.
> Please, don't bring the wine in -
> poetry plays such
> funny games.
>
>
> --
> Andrew
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>
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No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no
symphony for the listener.
Walter Benjamin
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