There's a World of Our Own
(from: The Anarcho-Syndicalist Handbook for Young Gentlemen
and Ladies of An Uncertain Age.)
What's the point
the Youngster asked
of all those stories about lost continents --
Atlantis, Ultima Thule, Hye Brazil?
Well, said the Grandfather
puffing his pipe in the usual fashion
It's all to do with
nostalgie de la boue
Our first homesickness
is for the sea
so we sit on the beach and
stare longingly
into the waves lapping and tempting,
amniotic ocean our cells came from
While the second nostalgia is
for the past, when
all was clear and simple
and we were young in the world
... the third nostalgia
is nostalgia for elsewhere
So we stare into the
liminal marriage of earth and sky
crack in space we'd fall into
And the last nostalgia
is for what might have been,
when the grandfather
sits with children
and tells them how
life would be, if
ROBIN HAMILTON
10.02.10
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