fun with sonnets. I enjoyed
KS
On 18/02/2008, andrew burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> This on Poetry Daily, from last year:
>
> At His Last Gig
>
> At his last gig in horrid Amsterdam—
> City to which Camus consigned the fallen—
> Ben Webster, Uncle Ben, then on the lam
> From Denmark, escaping as always, swollen
> And rheumy-eyed, spoke in a somewhat sullen
> And more than somewhat smashed voice to the jam
> Out front. It was his first speech, and a melan-
> choly occasion. "You're growing and—" ham
> That he was "—I'm going," he said. No scam,
> However commonplace, wherever stolen;
> He said it and he died, and no flim-flam.
> But it was obnoxious. He was a felon,
> A brute, a drunk, a sob-sister. Yet song
> Was his in paradox his whole life long.
>
>
> Hayden Carruth
> *Asheville Poetry Review*
> Issue 16: Jazz Issue
>
> --
> Andrew
> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/aburke/
>
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