well a welcome change from the egos that we have seen around here of late
P:-) ever so umble
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Sent: 28 May 2010 16:53
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Subject: Re: Performance versus Poetry
Ha!
And thanks for this...
Doug
On 28-May-10, at 9:04 AM, bobbi lurie wrote:
> *I TAKE BACK EVERYTHING I´VE SAID*
> Before I go
> I'm supposed to get a last wish:
> Generous reader
> burn this book
> It's not at all what I wanted to say
> Though it was written in blood
> It's not what I wanted to say.
> No lot could be sadder than mine
> I was defeated by my own shadow:
> My words took vengeance on me.
> Forgive me, reader, good reader
> If I cannot leave you
> With a warm embrace. I leave you
> With a forced and sad smile.
> Maybe that's all I am
> But listen to my last word:
> I take back everything I`ve said.
> With the greatest bitterness in the world
> I take back everything I`ve said.
>
> Nicanor Parra
Douglas Barbour
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the poem, like the city, destroyed and built again
and, here and there, remains of history
Chus Pato (trans. Erin Mouré)
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